Mark Sainsbury (philosopher)
Richard Mark Sainsbury 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. He 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 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998.Books
- Bertrand Russell .
- Paradoxes.
- Reference Without Referents.
- Fiction and Fictionalism.
- Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them: An Originalist Theory of Concepts .
- Thinking About Things .
