Mark Sainsbury (philosopher)
{{Short description|British philosopher}}
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| region = Western philosophy
| era = Contemporary philosophy
| name = Mark Sainsbury
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| birth_name = Richard Mark Sainsbury
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| birth_place =
| education = Oxford University (D.Phil.)
| institutions = King's College London
University of Texas, Austin
| school_tradition = Analytic
| main_interests = Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics
| influences = Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, Michael Dummett
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| notable_ideas = Originalist theory of concepts
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Richard Mark Sainsbury {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|eɪ|n|z|b|ər|i}}; born 7 February 1943) is a British philosopher who is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. He is known for his work in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and on the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege.
Education and career
Sainsbury earned his D.Phil. at Oxford University and taught for many years at King's College London where he was Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/philosophy/people/emeritus/sainsbury.html|title=Former faculty: Professor Mark Sainsbury|publisher=King's College London|accessdate=13 March 2011}} He became professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.[https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philosophy/faculty/rms9 Faculty page] He was editor of the leading philosophy journal Mind from 1990 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/sections/index.cfm?member%3D3144 |title=Sections - British Academy |accessdate=2015-07-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061750/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/sections/index.cfm?member=3144 |archivedate=2016-03-04 }}
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) {{ISBN|9780198803348}}.
References
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External links
{{Portal|Biography}}
- [https://www.marksainsbury.net/ Personal home page], with CV, book descriptions, and over 25 papers available for download.
- [https://utexas.academia.edu/MSainsbury Academia.edu page]
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Category:20th-century British philosophers
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