Kit Fine

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Kit Fine is a prominent contemporary philosopher best known for his influential work in metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of language.

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instanceOf academic
logician
philosopher
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
Royal Society of Canada Fellowship
dateOfBirth 1946
educatedAt University of Oxford
University of Warwick
employer New York University
University of Birmingham
fieldOfWork logic
metaphysics
ontology
philosophy of language
philosophy of logic
philosophy of mathematics
hasWritten “Acts, Events and Things”
“Compounds and Aggregates”
“Essence and Modality”
“Guide to Ground”
“In Defense of Three-Dimensionalism”
“Neutral Relations”
“Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects”
“Semantic Relationism”
“Tense and Reality”
“The Limits of Abstraction”
“The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter”
“The Problem of Vagueness”
“The Question of Realism”
“The Structure of Reality”
“The Varieties of Necessity”
“Things in Themselves”
influenced contemporary essentialism
metaphysical grounding theory
knownFor essentialism
non-classical mereology
semantic relationism
theory of grounding
truthmaker semantics
work in logic
work in metaphysics
work in philosophy of language
work on modality
work on vagueness
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
nationality British
placeOfBirth United Kingdom
positionHeld Professor of Philosophy at New York University
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham
Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University

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