Professor Mark Sainsbury FBA

Philosophy

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1998
Subjects: Philosophy
Sections: Philosophy
Website: https://www.marksainsbury.net/

Summary

I am currently working on problems in the logic and metaphysics of intentionality. Are all intentional states relational? Some but not others? What are the best candidates for being relata?

Current post

Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Past appointments

University of Texas at Austin Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

2003 -

University of Texas at Austin Professor of Philosophy

2002 -

King's College London University of London Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

2002 -

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy

1984 - 2008

Bedford College University of London Lecturer in Philosophy

1978 - 1984

University of Essex Lecturer in Philosophy

1975 - 1978

Publications

(with Michael Tye): Seven Puzzles of Thought and How To Solve Them: An Originalist Theory of Concepts 2012

Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them: An Orginalist Theory of Concepts 2012

Russell 1979; paperback 1985

Paradoxes 1988; third edition 2009

Logical forms 1991; 2000

Departing From Frege 2002

Reference Without Referents 2005

Fiction and Fictionalism 2009

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