Alan Berger
Professor, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy,
and Director, Saul Kripke Center
Alan Berger is prominent in his field, and his book Terms
and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric has been described
as “a major work.” He specializes in the
philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of
logic, epistemology, and has strong research interests
in the philosophy of mathematics. At the Graduate Center,
Berger is director of a new center that promotes the
work of Saul Kripke, considered by many the greatest
living philosophy, and he has contributed to and edited
a forthcoming collection on Saul Kripke’s work
for the Contemporary Philosophy
in Focus series, which
will contain the first discussion of much of Kripke’s
unpublished works. Berger holds a B.A. from Queens College
and a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. He comes to
the Graduate Center from Brandeis University.
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