Richard Mark Sainsbury (; born 1943) is a
British
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philosopher
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who is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Texas, Austin
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. He is known for his work in
philosophical logic
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,
philosophy of language
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, and on the philosophies of
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...
and
Gottlob Frege
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.
Education and career
Sainsbury earned his D.Phil. at
Oxford University
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and taught for many years at
King's College London
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where he was Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy. He became professor of philosophy at the
University of Texas at Austin
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in 2002. He was editor of the leading philosophy journal ''
Mind
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'' from 1990 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy
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in 1998.
Books
*''Bertrand Russell'' (Routledge, 1979) ("Arguments of the Philosophers" series).
*''Paradoxes'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
*''Reference Without Referents'' (Oxford University Press, 2005).
*''Fiction and Fictionalism'' (Routledge, 2009).
*''Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them: An Originalist Theory of Concepts'' (with
Michael Tye) (Oxford University Press, 2012).
*''Thinking About Things'' (Oxford University Press, 2018) .
References
External links
Personal home page with CV, book descriptions, and over 25 papers available for download.
Academia.edu page
1943 births
20th-century British philosophers
21st-century British philosophers
Philosophers of language
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Academics of King's College London
Fellows of King's College London
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Mark
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