Kit Fine

Kit Fine (born March 26, 1946 ) is a British professor of mathematics and philosophy at New York University , previously he was a professor at UCLA . As the author of several books and many articles in international journals, he has actively contributed to the field of philosophical logic , metaphysics and the philosophy of language . He has also written on ancient philosophy , particularly Aristotle 's logic and theory of modality . He did his Ph.D. 1969 at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Arthur Norman Prior . He is a past editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and a current Fellow of the British Academy . In 2006 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2013 he is a Gödel lecturer . As of 2013, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will be promoting a collaboration with the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Hamburg with an Anneliese Maier Research Prize (endowment: 250,000 euros) .

Works

Semantic Relationism , 2007, ISBN 978-1-4051-0844-7
Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers , 2005, ISBN 0-19-927871-7
The Limits of Abstraction , 2002, ISBN 0-19-924618-1
Reasoning With Arbitrary Objects , 1986, ISBN 0-631-13844-7
Worlds, Times, and Selves (together with Arthur Norman Prior), 1977, ISBN 0-87023-227-4

personal data
SURNAME	Fine, kit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1946