
Mark Sainsbury
Philosopher, Author
1943 –
Who is Mark Sainsbury?
R. Mark Sainsbury is a philosopher from the United Kingdom who has worked in the areas of philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege.
Sainsbury taught for many years at King's College London, and became professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. He was editor of the leading philosophy journal Mind from 1990 to 2000. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.
His first book was on Bertrand Russell. His most recent book, Fiction and Fictionalism concerns the semantic and ontological status of fictions. Reference Without Referents, is on the semantics of referring expressions. His book Departing From Frege is on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege. He has also written about paradoxes.
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- Born
- 1943
- Also known as
- R. Mark Sainsbury
- Richard Mark Sainsbury
- R. M Sainsbury
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin
- Employment
- King's College London
- University of Texas at Austin
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on July 23, 2013
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