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Crispin Wright
Born (1942-12-21) 21 December 1942 (age 81)
Surrey, England, U.K.
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Era20th-century philosophy
21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Neo-logicism (Scottish School)[1]
InstitutionsAll Souls College, Oxford
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mathematics
Frege · Wittgenstein
Epistemology
Notable ideas
Rule-following considerations[2]
Neo-logicism
Truth pluralism[3]
Epistemic entitlement[4]
Superassertibility
Anti-realist semantics for empirical language[5]
Warrant transmission failure[6]
Cornerstone proposition[4]
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Crispin James Garth Wright (/rt/; born 21 December 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 Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and taught previously at the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen, New York University, Princeton University and University of Michigan.[7]

  1. ^ st-andrews.ac.uk Archived 2006-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ C. Wright (1989), "Wittgenstein's Rule-following Considerations and the Central Project of Theoretical Linguistics", in Reflections on Chomsky, ed. A. George, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell; reprinted in C. Wright (2001), Rails to Infinity, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard.
  3. ^ Pluralist Theories of Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  4. ^ a b >Epistemic Entitlement – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  5. ^ Dummett, Michael – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. ^ Transmission of Justification and Warrant - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  7. ^ "Career". 27 September 2017. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.[unreliable source?]

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