Background
Fine, Kit was born on March 26, 1946 in Farnborough, England. Son of Maurice and Joyce Cicely (Woolf) Fine.
(Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Ki...)
Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. • Written by one of today’s most respected philosophers • Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought • Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves • Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today’s leading philosophers
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Fine, Kit was born on March 26, 1946 in Farnborough, England. Son of Maurice and Joyce Cicely (Woolf) Fine.
After graduating from the University of Oxford (BA, 1967) Fine received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 1969, under the supervision of A. N. Prior.
He previously taught for several years at the University of Michigan and 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. He is also a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK.
He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial 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. Fine has described his general approach to philosophy as follows: "I’m firmly of the opinion that real progress in philosophy can only come from taking common sense seriously. A departure from common sense is usually an indication that a mistake has been made."
Anne Fine is an author of children's books.
Cordelia Fine teaches at a university in Australia. Ione Fine is a professor at the University of Washington.
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(Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Ki...)
(Logic, philosophy.)
Member Association Symbolic Logic (editor logic series 1991-1994), American Philosophical Association.
Children: Ione, Cordelia.