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

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Professor Nicholas Shea FBA

Nicholas Shea explores the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, biology and artificial intelligence.

Professor Cécile Fabre FBA

Political philosophy; the ethics of war; bioethics; theories of justice

Professor Dr Wolfgang Künne FBA

Metaphysics, philosophy of language and of logic; the beginnings of analytical philosophy in Prague, Jena and Cambridge, and the beginnings of phenomenology in Halle and Göttingen

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