Richard M Sainsbury

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Biography

Professor Sainsbury is working principally in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and metaphysics, with particular interests in Russell and Frege. He is the author of the volume on Russell (1979) in the Routledge "Arguments of the Philosophers" series, and also Paradoxes (Cambridge, 1988; 2nd ed. 1995), Logical Forms (Blackwell, 1991, 2nd ed. 2000), Departing From Frege (2002), and many articles. His latest book, entitled Reference Without Referents, is currently in press. It argues for a non- descriptive account of reference, though one which does not require every referring expression to have a referent. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was formerly Susan Stebbing professor of Philosophy at King's College London and, from 1990-2000, editor of Mind.