Kit Fine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 March 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | B.A. 1967 (philosophy): University of Oxford Ph.D. 1969 (philosophy): University of Warwick |
| Spouse | Anne Fine (divorced) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Doctoral advisor | A. N. Prior |
Main interests | Philosophical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language |
Notable ideas | Defence of semantic relationism[a] against semantic intrinsicalism[b][1] |
| Website | as |
Kit Fine (born 26 March 1946) is a British philosopher, currently university professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. Prior to joining the philosophy department of NYU in 1997, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan and UCLA. The author of several books and dozens of articles in international academic journals, he has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language and also has written on ancient philosophy, in particular on Aristotle's account of logic and modality.
He is also a distinguished research professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK.[2] Since 2018, Fine is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.[3]
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
- ^ Kit Fine, Semantic Relationism. Blackwell, 2007.
- ^ "Professor Kit Fine - Department of Philosophy - University of Birmingham". Birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "Professors". usi.ch - Master in Philosophy. 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.