Crispin James Garth Wright#
Membership Number: | 5059 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
Elected: | 2019 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/257138 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2015 Professor of Philosophical Research, University of Stirling
- Since 2014 Global DistinguishedProfessor of Philosophy, New York University
- Since 2015 Emeritus Regius Professor of Logic, Aberdeen University
- 2013 - 2015 Regius Professor of Logic, Aberdeen University
- 2008 - 2014 Professor, New York University
- 1997 - 2009 Bishop Wardlaw Professor, University of St. Andrews (First Founder's Chair)
- 1978 - 2009 Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews
- 1987 - 1994 Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- 1971 - 1978 Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
- 1970 - 1971 Lecturer, University College, London
- 1969 - 1970 Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of logic
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophies of Frege and Wittgenstein
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Hon. D.Litt Aberdeen
- 1998 - 2003 Leverhulme Trust Personal Research Professorship (full-time)
- 1996 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1992 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 1990 - 1992 British Academy Research Readership (full-time)
- 1985 - 1986 Fulbright Scholar at Princeton
- 1969 - 1971 Prize Fellow, All Souls College