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Crispin Wright
 
   
 

Crispin Wright, FBA, FRSE, is Director of the Northern Institute of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1969-78), and a former Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at NYU (2002-8), and he has also taught at Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, London and St. Andrews, where he was appointed the first Wardlaw University Professor in 1997. He founded the St. Andrews Research Centre, Arché, in 1998 and directed it until moving to Aberdeen in 2009. Under his leadership, the Arché centre attracted in excess of £4 million of competitive external research funding.

Crispin's books include

  • Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (Harvard 1980)
  • Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects (Humanities Press 1983; second edition Oxford forthcoming)
  • Truth and Objectivity (Harvard 1992)
  • Realism, Meaning and Truth (Blackwell 1986; second edition Blackwell 1993)
  • Knowing our Own Minds (co edited with Cynthia Macdonald and Barry C. Smith, Oxford 1998)
  • A Companion to The Philosophy of Language (co-edited with Bob Hale, Blackwell 1999)
  • The Reason’s Proper Study (co-authored with Bob Hale, Oxford 2001)
  • Rails to Infinity (Harvard 2001)
  • Rule-following and Meaning (co-edited with Alexander Miller, Acumen 2002)
  • Saving the Differences (Harvard 2003)
  • The Riddle of Vagueness ( Oxford forthcoming)
  • Imploding the Demon (Oxford forthcoming)

    A selection of his most recent (from 2008) and forthcoming articles is listed below.

    He is the founder of the new NIP journal, Thought, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, of which, with Prof. John Divers of Leeds University, he will serve as Co-editor.

    In the summer of 2011 Crispin and his son Geoff completed a sponsored walk of the 268 miles of the Pennine Way to raise funds to support graduate visits to and from NIP. He was challenged to answer a philosophical question, chosen by the voting public, each day of the walk. A minimum of £5 donation is required to read the resulting Wright’s Ramblings . We have raised over £2500 (and still counting)!

    Crispin's non-academic interests include Liverpool FC , horticulture, mountains, food, cycling and film.

    PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2008

    Epistemology

  • 2008 Comment on John McDowell's "The disjunctive conception of experience as material for a transcendental argument" in A. Haddock and F. MacPherson, eds., Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 390-404
  • 2008 “Internal—External: Doxastic Norms and the Defusing of Sceptical Paradox” in the Journal of Philosophy CV (9), a special number on Epistemic Norms, edited by John Collins and Christopher Peacocke, 501-517
  • 2011 "Frictional Coherentism? A Comment on Chapter 10 of Ernest Sosa’s Reflective Knowledge", Philosophical Studies 153 (1) 29-41
  • 2011 "McKinsey One More Time" in Anthony Hatzimoysis, ed., Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 80-104
  • forthcoming "Welfare State Epistemology (Entitlement II)", in Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini, eds., Contemporary Perspectives on Scepticism and Perceptual Justification, Oxford University Press

    Language

  • 2010 “The Illusion of Higher-order Vagueness” in Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Morruzzi, eds., Cuts and Clouds (Oxford), 523-49
  • 2010 (With Bob Hale) “Assertibilist Truth and Objective Content: Still Inexplicit?” in Bernhard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer, eds., Reading Brandom: Making It Explicit, (Routledge,) 276-93
  • Forthcoming “On the Characterisation of Borderline Cases” in Meanings and Other Things: Essays on Stephen Schiffer, edited by Gary Ostertag (MIT press)
  • Forthcoming (With Bob Hale) "Horse Sense" in Robert May and Charles Parsons, eds., special number of the Journal of Philosophy on Frege's Philosophy.
  • Forthcoming "A Note on “The Problem of Non-Conclusiveness”., in a special number of Dialectica on the Philosophy of Paolo Casalengo, to be edited by Elisa Paganini

    Metaphysics

  • 2008 “Relativism about Truth Itself: Haphazard Thoughts about the Very Idea” in Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Max Kolbel, eds., Relative Truth, Oxford University Press, 157-85
  • 2008 “Fear of Relativism”, Philosophical Studies 141, 3, 379-390, contribution to a book symposium on Paul Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge (Oxford 2006)
  • 2009 (With Sebastiano Moruzzi) “Trumping Assessments and the Aristotelian Future” in Berit Brogaard, ed., Synthese 166 (2), 309-331
  • 2011 “The Pain of Rejection, the Sweetness of Revenge”, Philosophical Studies, contribution to a book symposium on Mark Richard's When Truth Gives Out (Oxford 2008)
  • forthcoming "A Plurality of Pluralisms" in Nikolaj Pedersen and Cory Wright, eds., Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, Oxford University Press.

    Philosophy of Logic

  • Forthcoming Comment on Paul Boghossian, “The Nature of Inference”, in Philosophical Studies

    Philosophy of Mathematics

  • 2008 (With Bob Hale) "Abstraction and Additional Nature", in Philosophia Mathematica 16 (2), 182-2008
  • 2008 Contribution to Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions, eds. Vincent Hendriks and Hannes Leitgeb, Automatic Press/VIP, 301-11
  • 2009 “The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Abstraction” in Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb, eds., Reduction-Abstraction-Analysis 195-216 (Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society: New Series, vol. 11) (Heusenstamm bei Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag)
  • 2009 (With Bob Hale) ‘Focus restored: Comment on John Macfarlane’s “Double Vision” ’ in Synthese 170 (3), 457-82, special number on Bad Company edited by Oystein Linnebo
  • 2009 (With Bob Hale) “The Metaontology of Abstraction” in David Chalmers et al, Eds., Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, 178-212
  • Forthcoming "An Entitlement to Hume's Principle?" in P. Ebert and M. Rossberg, Eds., The Philosophy of Abstraction (Oxford University Press)
  • Forthcoming "Whence the Paradox? Axiom V and Indefinite Extensibility" in Michael Frauchiger, and Wilhelm K. Essler, eds., volume to celebrate the award of the 2010 Lauener prize to Sir Michael Dummett, to appear in the series, The Lauener Library of Analytical philosophy
  • Forthcoming "Frege and Benacerraf's problem" in Robert DiSalle, Mélanie Frappier, and Derek Brown, eds., Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos, Springer

    Mind

  • Forthcoming "Reflections on François Recanati’s, “Immunity to error through misidentification: what it is and where it comes from”" in Simon Prosser and François Recanati, eds., Immunity to Error Through Misidentification: New Essays, Cambridge University Press

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