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 Christian List FBA

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences; political philosophy; theories of individual and collective decision-making

Professor Nicholas Shea FBA

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

Professor Helen Steward FBA

The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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