Kit Fine
Kit Fine | |
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| Born | 26 March 1946 |
| Spouse | Anne Fine (divorced) |
| Children | Cordelia Fine Ione Fine |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Oxford (B.A., 1967) University of Warwick (Ph.D., 1969) |
| Thesis | For Some Proposition and So Many Possible Worlds (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | A. N. Prior |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Main interests | Philosophical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language |
| Notable ideas | Defense of modal actualism, ontological dependence, arbitrary objects, defence of semantic relationism against semantic intrinsicalism |
| Website | as |
Kit Fine (born 26 March 1946) is a British philosopher who is the 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 multiple books and over 100 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.
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.