Kit Fine

Kit Fine ( born March 26, 1946) is a British professor of mathematics and philosophy at New York University. Previously, he had been a professor at UCLA. As an author of several books and many articles in international journals, he has actively contributed to the field of philosophical logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. He has also written on the philosophy of antiquity, especially to Aristotle's logic and theory of modality. He received his Ph.D. 1969 at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Arthur Norman Prior He is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and currently a Fellow of the British Academy. 2013 he is Lecturer Godel. From 2013, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with an Anneliese Maier Research Award (doping: 250,000 euros ) promote cooperation with the Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg.

Works

  • Semantic Relationism, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4051-0844-7
  • Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers, 2005, ISBN 0-19-927871-7
  • The Limits of Abstraction, 2002, ISBN 0-19-924618-1
  • Reasoning With Arbitrary Objects, 1986, ISBN 0-631-13844-7
  • Worlds, Times, and Selves (together with Arthur Norman Prior ), 1977, ISBN 0-87023-227-4
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