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D-Index
57
Citations
13627
World Ranking
1765
National Ranking
323

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Crispin Wright is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans fields within the Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology. More specifically, they have contributed extensively to Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, alongside work in the History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics of Crispin Wright's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, alongside the Philosophy and History of Science. Additionally, their research engages with intersections between Philosophy, Science, and History, as well as Philosophical Ethics and Theory and studies related to Misinformation and Its Impacts and Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications.

Frequent publication venues for Wright include Philosophy and Phenomenological Research where they have published seven papers. Other venues where their research appears include Mind, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical Topics, and Inquiry.

  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Mind
  • Metaphilosophy
  • Philosophical Topics
  • Inquiry

Selected recent papers authored by Crispin Wright are:

  • Alethic pluralism, deflationism, and faultless disagreement, 2021, Metaphilosophy
  • Deflating inflationism? Reflections on Douglas Edwards' The Metaphysics of Truth, 2022, Inquiry
  • Making Exceptions, 2021, Philosophical Topics

Crispin Wright has also co-authored papers with several frequent collaborators, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Frequent co-authors include Felicia Nimue, Ackerman Robert, Adams Louise, Antony Robert, and Audi Block.

  • Felicia Nimue
  • Ackerman Robert
  • Adams Louise
  • Antony Robert
  • Audi Block

Wright has received several distinctions over the course of their career including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Truth and Objectivity

    Crispin Wright

  • WARRANT FOR NOTHING (AND FOUNDATIONS FOR FREE)

    Crispin Wright

  • Frege's conception of numbers as objects

    Crispin Wright

  • A companion to the philosophy of language

    Bob Hale;Crispin Wright

  • (Anti-)Sceptics Simple and Subtle: G.E Moore and John Mcdowell

    Crispin Wright

  • On the coherence of vague predicates

    Crispin Wright

  • The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics

    Bob Hale;Crispin Wright

  • Wittgenstein on the foundations of mathematics

    Crispin Wright

  • The Reason's Proper Study

    Bob Hale;Crispin Wright

  • Knowing Our Own Minds

    Crispin Wright;Barry C. Smith;Cynthia Macdonald

  • Realism, meaning, and truth

    Crispin Wright

  • Reality, representation, and projection

    John Haldane;Crispin Wright

  • Vagueness

    Unknown

  • Moral Values, Projection and Secondary Qualities

    Crispin Wright

  • Wittgenstein 's Later Philosophy of Mind: Sensation, Privacy, and Intention

    Crispin Wright

  • On being in a quandary. Relativism vagueness logical revisionism

    Crispin Wright

  • Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects

    John P. Burgess;Crispin Wright

  • Kripke’s Account of the Argument Against Private Language

    Crispin Wright

  • Self-knowledge: the Wittgensteinian Legacy

    Crispin Wright

  • Cogency and Question‐Begging: Some Reflections on McKinsey's Paradox and Putnam's Proof

    Crispin Wright

  • Scepticism and Dreaming: Imploding the Demon

    Unknown

  • Truth and Objectivity.

    Terence Horgan;Crispin Wright

  • Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects.

    Ian Hacking;Crispin Wright

  • FREGE: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

    Crispin Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John McDowell
John McDowell University of Pittsburgh
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking University of Toronto

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