Crispin Wright
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| Born | 21 December 1942 Surrey, England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Analytic Neo-logicism |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford |
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Philosophy of mind Philosophy of language Philosophy of mathematics Frege · Wittgenstein Epistemology |
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Rule-following considerations Neo-logicism · Truth pluralism |
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Crispin James Garth Wright (/raɪt/; born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity. He is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and taught previously at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, Princeton University and University of Michigan.
He was born in Surrey and was educated at Birkenhead School (1950–61) and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in Moral Sciences in 1964 and taking a PhD in 1968. He took an Oxford BPhil in 1969 and was elected Prize Fellow and then Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he worked until 1978. He then moved to the University of St. Andrews, where he was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics and then the first Bishop Wardlaw University Professorship in 1997. As of fall 2008, he is professor at New York University (NYU). He has also taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. Crispin Wright is founder and director of Arché, which he left in September 2009 to take up leadership of the new Northern Institute of Philosophy (NIP) at the University of Aberdeen.
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