Kit Fine

He is also a distinguished research professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, England. Since 2018, Fine is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

Education, family and career

After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 1967), Fine received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 1969, under the supervision of A. N. Prior. He then taught at the University of Edinburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan, and UCLA, before moving to New York University as the Silver Professor and University Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics.

He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic.

Fine has two daughters from his former marriage to Anne Fine. Anne Fine is an author of children's books; Cordelia Fine is a professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne; Ione Fine is a professor at the University of Washington.