Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

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 and Mathematics

Mathematics

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 at New York University

New York University

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. 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

Philosophical logic

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, metaphysics

Metaphysics

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, and the philosophy of language

Philosophy of language

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 and also has written on ancient philosophy

Ancient philosophy

This page lists some links to ancient philosophy. In Western philosophy, the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire marked the ending of Hellenistic philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of Medieval philosophy, whereas in Eastern philosophy, the spread of Islam through the Arab Empire...

, in particular on Aristotle

Aristotle

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's account of logic and modality.

Fine received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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 in 1969, under the supervision of A. N. Prior. He is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic

Journal of Symbolic Logic

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and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

External links

• Fine's web page at New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
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• Annotated bibliography of Fine's writings (1970-1995).
• Annotated bibliography of Fine's writings (1996-2010).