Mark Sainsbury
Office Hours (UT): Spring 2008:
Tuesdays 12.30-2.30, or by appointment (WAG 403A)
My research is mostly in philosophy of language.
My main job is at the University of Texas at Austin. For two months in the summer I go to London to teach graduate students at King’s College London.
I read PPE at Corpus Christi College Oxford in the nineteen sixties. My first tenured job was at the University of Essex, and I moved to Bedford College London in 1979. Bedford was closed and the departments were dispersed in 1984. Most of the College went to join Royal Holloway College, but this was too far from central London for the intercollegiate philosophy program to function. The whole philosophy department was able to move to King’s in 1984, a piece of good fortune that owes much to the efforts and skills of Ronnie Dworkin, Peter Winch and David Wiggins. I moved to my present job at UT in 2002 and have no plans to return to England permanently.
Books:
Russell (1979)
Paradoxes (1988, third edition 2008)
Logical Forms (1991, second edition 2000)
Departing from Frege (2002)
Reference without Referents (2005).
I am currently working on a book entitled Fiction and Fictionalism.
