Kit Fine
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Kit Fine (born March 26, 1946) is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He previously taught for several years at 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.
Fine received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 1969, under the supervision of A. N. Prior. He is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
[edit] Selected publications
- Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927871-7
- The Limits of Abstraction. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-924618-1
- Reasoning With Arbitrary Objects. Blackwell, 1986. ISBN 0-631-13844-7
- Worlds, Times, and Selves (with A. N. Prior). University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. ISBN 0-87023-227-4
