Crispin James Garth Wright

New York University, New York, New York~Professor of Philosophy. Contributed to the philosophy of mathematics (neo-Fregean foundations); to metaphysics (realism, truth, and ontology); to epistemology (skepticism and self-knowledge); to philosophy of language and logic (vagueness and intuitionism); and to the study of Wittgenstein. Elected Prize Fellow (1969) at All Souls College, Oxford, where he spent the first nine years of his career. Appointed Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews (1978). Awarded a D.Litt. from the University of Oxford (1988) and an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen (2003). Research awards include a British Academy Research Readership (1990-1992) and a Leverhulme Trust Research Professorship (1998-2003). Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Appointed the first Bishop Wardlaw University Professor at St Andrews in 1997. Founder and, until 2008, Director of the Arché Centre at St Andrews. Since 2009, Director of the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.~~