Kit Fine

Kit Fine (born 26 March 1946) is a British philosopher, currently university professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. Prior to joining the philosophy department of NYU in 1997, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan and UCLA. The author of several books and dozens of articles in international academic journals, he has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language and also has written on ancient philosophy, in particular on Aristotle's account of logic and modality.

Kit Fine
Born (1946-03-26) 26 March 1946
NationalityBritish
EducationB.A. 1967 (philosophy):
University of Oxford
Ph.D. 1969 (philosophy):
University of Warwick
SpouseAnne Fine (divorced)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Doctoral advisor A. N. Prior
Main interests
Philosophical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
Notable ideas
Defence of semantic relationism against semantic intrinsicalism
Websiteas.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/kit-fine.html

He is also a distinguished research professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK. Since 2018, Fine is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

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