Professor Crispin Wright FBA

Philosophy

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1992
Subjects: Philosophy
Sections: Philosophy
Website: http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/crispinwright

Current post

Professor of Philosophy, New York University; Professor of Philosophical Research, University of Stirling

Past appointments

University of Stirling Profesor of Philosophy

2015 -

University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor

1997 -

University of Michigan Professor of Philosophy and from 1992 Nelson Professor of Philosophy

1987 - 1994

University of St Andrews Professor of Logic and Metaphysics

1978 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Research Fellow

1969 - 1978

Publications

Wittgenstein on the foundation of mathematics 1980

Reason, meaning and truth 1986

Frece's conception of numbers as objects 1983

Truth and objectivity 1992

Rails to infinity 2001

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Bas Van Fraassen FBA

Logic and philosophy of science, with concentration on foundations of physics, within an empiricist approach

Dr Wilfrid Hodges FBA

Links between logic and semantics, including model-theoretic definitions of mathematical constructions, formal semantics for sentences with scope peculiarities, the logic of Ibn Sina and its semantic foundations

Professor Peter Simons FBA

Philosophy Central Europe Austria Germany Metaphysics History of Philosophy Logic Philosophy of Language USA, Canada and/or Mexico East Africa Eastern Europe including Russia Poland Northern Europe Scandinavia including Finland Southern Europe Italy Western Europe Ireland France Netherlands Belgium Portugal Switzerland East Asia China, Hong Kong, Japan

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