Kit Fine
Kit Fine | |
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Born | 26 March 1946 |
Nationality | British |
Education | B.A. 1967 ( |
Website | as |
Kit Fine (born 26 March 1946) is a British philosopher, currently university professor and Silver Professor of
He is also a distinguished research professor in the Department of Philosophy,
Education, family and career
After graduating from
He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the
Fine has two daughters from his former marriage to Anne Fine. Anne Fine is an author of children's books; Cordelia Fine is a professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne; Ione Fine is a professor at the University of Washington.[6][7]
Philosophical work
In addition to his primary areas of research, he has written papers in
Fine has described his general approach to philosophy as follows: "I’m firmly of the opinion that real progress in philosophy can only come from taking common sense seriously. A departure from common sense is usually an indication that a mistake has been made."[9]
Awards
In 2013, Fine held the Gödel Lecture, titled Truthmaker semantics.[10]
Bibliography
- Worlds, Times, and Selves (with ISBN 0-87023-227-4
- Reasoning With Arbitrary Objects. Blackwell, 1986. ISBN 0-631-13844-7
- The Limits of Abstraction. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-924618-1
- Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927871-7
- Semantic Relationism. Blackwell, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-0844-7
- Vagueness: A Global Approach, Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-1975-1495-5
"For a full 2023 listing of publications see "Bibliography of Kit Fine", (back matter from Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic).[11]
Notes
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship 2005 - British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Leiter)". Leiterreports.typepad.com. 22 April 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Salter, Jessica (14 September 2010). "World of Anne Fine, author". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010.
- ^ "FineLab homepage". Faculty.washington.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ "Kit Fine, Faculty of Philosophy | NYU". Philosophy.fas.nyu.edu. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "Metaphysical Kit » 3:AM Magazine". 3ammagazine.com. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Gödel Lecturers". Association for Symbolic Logic.
- ISBN 978-3-031-29414-3.