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Kit Fine

Silver Professor; University Professor; Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics

Kit Fine (B.A., Oxford; Ph.D., Warwick) specializes in Metaphysics, Logic, and Philosophy of Language. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. In addition to his primary areas of research, he has written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory.

External Affiliations

Association of Symbolic Logic, American Philosophical Association, American Mathematical Association.

Fellowships/Honors

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1994-1995; Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1981-1982; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1978-1979.

Online Papers

  • “Arguing for Non-Identity: A Response to King and Frances (PDF),” Mind vol. 115, no. 460 (2007).
  • “Cantorian Abstraction: A Defense and Reconstruction (PDF),” Journal of Philosophy XCV 12, 599–634 (1998).
  • “Essence and Modality, (PDF)” in Philosophical Perspectives 8 (ed. J. Tomberlin) as the Nous Casteneda Memorial Lecture, pp. 1–16 (1994).
  • “In Defense of Three-Dimensionalism,” Journal of Philosophy, CIII.12, 699–714 (2006).
  • “The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter, (PDF)” Mind vol. 112, 195–234 (2003).
  • “Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects (PDF),” in Oxford Studies in Epistemology: vol. 1 (ed. T. S. Gendler & J. Hawthorne), 89–110, Oxford: Clarendon Press (2005).
  • “The Problem of Possibilia, (PDF)” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (eds. D. Zimmerman & M. Loux), Clarendon Press:Oxford, 191–179 (2003).
  • “A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form (PDF),” in Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics (ed. Scaltsas, Charles, Gill), pp. 13–40, Clarendon Press: Oxford (1994).
  • “The Question of Ontology, (PDF)” to appear in a volume on meta-ontology, OUP.
  • “The Reality of Tense, (PDF)” Synthese 150:3, 399–414 (2006).
  • “Relatively Unrestricted Quantification, (PDF)” in Chapter 1 of Absolute Generality (eds. A. Rayo and G. Uzquiano), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006).
  • “The Role of Variables, (PDF)” Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 12, 605–631, 2003, reprinted in the Philosophers’ Annual (2003).
  • “Tense and Reality (PDF),” in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (OUP, 2005).
  • “The Varieties of Necessity, (PDF)” in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (OUP, 2005).
  • "Aristotle’s Megarian Maneuvers (PDF)"; to appear in Mind (2012).
  • "Counterfactuals without Possible Worlds (PDF)", to appear in the Journal of Philosophy.
  • "Towards a Theory of Part (PDF)", to appear in the Journal of Philosophy.
  • "Some Puzzles of Ground", (PDF) Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol.51, no.1, 97-118, 2010.
  • "The Pure Logic of Ground"; (PDF) Review of Symbolic Logic vol. 25, no. 1, 1-25 (2012).
  • "An Abstract Characterization of the Determinate/Determinable Distinction" (PDF), Philosophical Perspectives vol. 25, no. 1, 161-87.
  • "A Guide to Ground" (PDF), to appear in Because (eds. F. Correia & B. Schneider), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012).
  • "What is Metaphysics" (PDF), in Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics" (ed. T. E. Tahko), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 8-25 (2012).
  • "A Difficulty for the Possible Worlds Analysis of Counterfactuals" (PDF), to appear in Synthese (2012).
  • "Truth-maker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic" (PDF)

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