Biography:Mark Sainsbury (philosopher)

Short description: British philosopher

Mark Sainsbury FBA
Born	Richard Mark Sainsbury 1943 (age 80–81)
Education	Oxford University (D.Phil.)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	King's College London University of Texas, Austin
Main interests	Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics
Notable ideas	Originalist theory of concepts
Influences Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, Michael Dummett

Richard Mark Sainsbury FBA (/ˈseɪnzbəri/; born 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. 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 (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.

External links

• Personal home page, with CV, book descriptions, and over 25 papers available for download.
• Academia.edu page