Prof Mark Sainsbury, FBA

Career: Radcliffe lectr in philosophy Magdalen Coll Oxford 1968-70, lectr in philosophy St Hilda's Coll Oxford 1970-73, Radcliffe lectr in philosophy BNC Oxford 1973-75, lectr in philosophy Univ of Essex 1975-78, lectr in philosophy Bedford Coll London 1978-84 (actg head of Philosophy Dept 1981-84); KCL: lectr in philosophy 1984-87, reader 1987-89, head Dept of Philosophy 1988-95, Susan Stebbing prof of philosophy 1989-2008; prof Philosophy Dept Univ of Texas at Austin 2002-; visiting research fell ANU 1992, Wittgenstein lectr and visiting prof Bayreuth Univ 1994, Leverhulme sr res fell 2000-02; ed MIND 1990-2000; currently tstee Philosophy in Britain; FBA 1998

Books and Publications: Russell (1979), Paradoxes (1988, 3 edn 2009), Logical Forms (1991, 3 edn 2009), Departing from Frege (2002), Reference Without Referents (2005), Fiction and Fictionalism (2009); also author of numerous articles and reviews in learned jls