Yale Weiss

Yale Weiss is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Saul Kripke Center. He holds a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center (2019). His research focuses on logic, history of logic, and ancient philosophy, with a particular emphasis on modal logic, the history of analytic philosophy, and the works of Saul Kripke. Weiss co-organizes the Logic and Metaphysics Workshop at the Graduate Center with Graham Priest and is a member of the Logicians Liberation League.

He authored Saul Kripke on Modal Logic (2024), an edited volume celebrating Kripke’s contributions to modal logic. His work spans topics such as Leibnizian completeness theorems, barriers to entailment in relevance logic, and Augustine’s KK principle. Weiss has also contributed to the semantics of connexive and constructive logics, as well as historical studies of Parmenides and Aristotle.

His recent publications analyze topics including Hume’s law, Boolean group semantics, and the philosophical implications of Kripke’s early work in modal logic. Weiss’s research bridges historical and contemporary logic, emphasizing formal methods in understanding philosophical problems.