Bio-bibliographic Note

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Extract Crispin J. G. Wright, born in 1942 in Surrey, was educated at Birkenhead School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in Moral Sciences in 1964 and taking a PhD in 1968. He took an Oxford BPhil in 1969 and was elected Prize Fellow and then Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he worked until 1978. He then moved to the University of St Andrews, where he became the first Bishop Wardlaw University Professor in 1997. From fall 2008, he has been Professor at New York University, and, since 2015, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the Academia Europaea. He is the founder of Arché—Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, at St Andrews, which he left in September 2009 to take up leadership of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.