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Kripke receives honorary doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania

Kripke received honorary doctorate at University of Pennsylvania
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=773

PHILADELPHIA -- Grammy-award-winning musician and producer Quincy Jones,
philosopher Saul A. Kripke, Comcast-founder Ralph J. Roberts, journalist
Judy Woodruff, and Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the University of
Washington School of Nursing have been named along with speaker Kofi Annan
as the honorary degree recipients at the University of Pennsylvania's
249th Commencement ceremony.

    * Saul A. Kripke -- A professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center
      of the City University of New York, Saul A. Kripke's work has had a
      pioneering effect in fields as diverse as mathematics, linguistics,
      computer and information science, and law. Since 1959, he has
      published several seminal papers on modal logic.  His books include
      "Naming and Necessity" and "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private
      Language: An Elementary Exposition."  He received the Schock Prize
      in Logic and Philosophy from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in
      2001.