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According to Wikipedia, Kit Fine is a British philosopher, currently university professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. Prior to joining the philosophy department of NYU in 1997, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan and UCLA. The author of several books and dozens of articles in international academic journals, he has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language and also has written on ancient philosophy, in particular on Aristotle's account of logic and modality.

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Vagueness, truth and logic (1975) (908)
Essence and Modality: The Second Philosophical Perspectives Lecture (1994) (603)
Metaphysical Grounding: Guide to ground (2012) (493)
Things and Their Parts (1999) (271)
XIV—Ontological Dependence (1995) (227)
THE PURE LOGIC OF GROUND (2011) (227)
The Question of Realism (2001) (226)
Reasoning with arbitrary objects (1988) (211)
Some Puzzles of Ground (2010) (195)
In so many possible worlds (1972) (193)
What is metaphysics? (2011) (173)
Unified Foundations for Essence and Ground (2015) (171)
Modality and tense (2008) (170)
The logic of essence (1995) (162)
Tense and Reality (2005) (155)
Logics containing K4. Part I (1974) (150)
The Non‐Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter (2003) (141)
Worlds, times and selves (1977) (136)
Truth-Maker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic (2014) (132)
Counterfactuals Without Possible Worlds (2012) (128)
Some Connections Between Elementary and Modal Logic (1975) (126)
The question of ontology (2009) (125)
Plantinga on the Reduction of Possibilist Discourse (1985) (123)
An incomplete logic containing S4 (1974) (122)
Normal forms in modal logic (1975) (120)
Models for entailment (1974) (114)
Angellic Content (2016) (111)
Propositional quantifiers in modal logic1 (2008) (99)
The Study of Ontology (1991) (96)
Logics containing K4. Part II (1985) (91)
Towards a Theory of Part (2010) (88)
Modality and tense : philosophical papers (2005) (87)
A Theory of Truthmaker Content I: Conjunction, Disjunction and Negation (2017) (87)
Social Choice and Individual Rankings II (1974) (82)
A Theory of Truthmaker Content II: Subject-matter, Common Content, Remainder and Ground (2017) (75)
Fundamental Truth and Fundamental Terms (2013) (73)
A Defence of Arbitrary Objects (1983) (72)
I—Kit Fine: Coincidence and Form (2008) (67)
Model theory for modal logic part I—The De re/de dicto distinction (1978) (67)
Semantics for the Logic of Essence (2000) (63)
Properties, propositions and sets (1977) (61)
Prior on the Construction of Possible Worlds and Instants (2005) (58)
First-order modal theories III — Facts (1982) (58)
The logic of significance and context (1973) (58)
The Logics Containing S 4.3 (1971) (54)
Compounds and aggregates (1994) (53)
In Defense of Three-Dimensionalism (2006) (53)
The problem of non-existents (1982) (53)
Failures of the interpolation lemma in quantified modal logic (1979) (52)
An ascending chain of S4 logics (2008) (51)
The Varieties of Necessity (2005) (51)
The RealIty of Tense (2006) (48)
Identity criteria and ground (2016) (47)
Necessity and Non‐Existence (2005) (47)
Relatively Unrestricted Quantification (2006) (47)
Cantorian Abstraction: A Reconstruction and Defense (1998) (46)
Semantics for quantified relevance logic (1988) (45)
Analytic implication (1986) (43)
First-Order Modal Theories I--Sets (1981) (42)
Natural deduction and arbitrary objects (1985) (41)
A Counter-Example to Locke's Thesis (2000) (39)
THE ROLE OF VARIABLES (2003) (38)
First-order modal theories (1980) (36)
A difficulty for the possible worlds analysis of counterfactuals (2012) (35)
The Problem of Possibilia (2005) (33)
The Problem of De Re Modality (2005) (32)
Class and Membership (2005) (29)
Critical review of Parsons' non-existent objects (1984) (29)
Naive Metaphysics: Naive Metaphysics (2017) (29)
Incompleteness for Quantified Relevance Logics (1989) (27)
Arguing for Non-identity: A Response to King and Frances (2006) (25)
Permission and Possible Worlds (2014) (21)
Model theory for modal logic—Part III existence and predication (1981) (21)
The permutation principle in quantificational logic (1983) (21)
The Justification of Negation as Failure (1989) (21)
LOGIC FOR EXACT ENTAILMENT (2019) (20)
Some Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Representative Decision on Two Alternatives (1972) (20)
Aristotle on Matter (1992) (20)
Model theory for modal logic—part II the elimination of De re modality (1978) (19)
THE PROBLEM OF MIXTURE (1995) (19)
Ignorance of ignorance (2018) (19)
Response to Kathrin Koslicki (2007) (16)
Comments on Scott Soames’‘Coordination Problems’ (2010) (16)
For some proposition and so many possible worlds (1969) (16)
Yablo on subject-matter (2018) (16)
Quine on Quantifying In (2005) (15)
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF VAGUENESS (2008) (13)
Response to Fabrice Correia (2007) (13)
In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism* (2008) (13)
Truthmaking and the is–ought gap (2018) (12)
Reply to Lawlor’s ‘Varieties of Coreference’ (2010) (11)
Reference, Essence, and Identity (2005) (11)
A note on partial content (2013) (10)
Truth-Maker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic (2013) (10)
Response to Fraser MacBride (2007) (10)
COMPLIANCE AND COMMAND I—CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES (2018) (9)
Logics containing S4 without the finite model property (1972) (8)
Conditions for the Existence of Cycles Under Majority and Non-Minority Rules (1973) (8)
COMPLIANCE AND COMMAND II, IMPERATIVES AND DEONTICS (2018) (8)
AN ABSTRACT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DETERMINATE/DETERMINABLE DISTINCTION (2011) (8)
The possibility of vagueness (2017) (8)
Recurrence: a rejoinder (2014) (7)
Williamson on Fine on Prior on the reduction of possibilist discourse (2016) (7)
Truth without satisfaction (1984) (7)
The Identity of Social Groups (2020) (7)
Response to Paul Horwich (2007) (6)
10 Review of Counterfactuals by David Lewis (2005) (5)
Aristotle's Megarian Manoeuvres (2011) (5)
MATHEMATICS: DISCOVERY OR INVENTION? (2012) (4)
Acts and Embodiment (2022) (4)
Verisimilitude and Truthmaking (2019) (4)
A PUZZLE CONCERNING MATTER AND FORM (2018) (4)
Constructing the Impossible (2021) (3)
Vagueness (1997) (3)
Some Remarks on Popper’s Qualitative Criterion of Verisimilitude (2019) (2)
Comments on Paolo Bonardi’s “Coordination, Understanding, and Semantic Requirements” (2020) (2)
Vagueness: A Global Approach (2020) (2)
The Logic of Logical Necessity (2021) (1)
Indeterminate Identity, Personal Identity, and Fission (2020) (1)
Comments on Paul Hovda’s ‘Semantics as Information About Semantics Values’ (2010) (1)
A Semantics for the Impure Logic of Ground (2022) (1)
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics: What is metaphysics? (2011) (1)
Response to Manuel García-Carpintero (2007) (1)
The silence of the lambdas (2011) (1)
Comments on Gabriel Sandu’s “Indefinites, Skolem Functions, and Arbitrary Objects” (2020) (1)
Some Remarks on Popper’s Qualitative Criterion of Verisimilitude (2019) (0)
Coordination Between Speakers (2008) (0)
Introduction to Special Edition of Social Politics: "Gender, Citizenship and Transition" (1996) (0)
A New Theory of Vagueness (2014) (0)
Postscript: Further Work (2008) (0)
Truthmaking and the is–ought gap (2018) (0)
Kit Fine-What is Metaphysics? (2018) (0)
Comments on Alasdair Urquhart’s “Fine on Arbitrary Objects” (2020) (0)
Comments on Jessica Wilson’s “Essence and Dependence” (2020) (0)
A difficulty for the possible worlds analysis of counterfactuals (2012) (0)
Recurrence: a rejoinder (2013) (0)
Three's Company (2014) (0)
Comments on Joseph Almog’s “One Absolutely Infinite Universe to Rule Them All: Reverse Reflection, Reverse Metaphysics” (2020) (0)
11Review of The Nature of Necessity by Alvin Plantinga (2005) (0)
Comments on Bob Hale’s “The Problem of de re Modality” (2020) (0)
REVIEWS-The limits of abstraction (2004) (0)
Comments on Steven T. Kuhn’s “Necessary, Transcendental, and Universal Truth” (2020) (0)
Comments on Penelope Mackie’s “Can Metaphysical Modality Be Based on Essence?” (2020) (0)
Mathematics and the Method of Abstraction (2020) (0)
Comments on Gary Ostertag’s “Fine on Frege’s Puzzle” (2020) (0)
Review: Dov M. Gabbay, Investigations in Modal and Tense Logics with Application to Problems in Philosophy and Linguistics (1979) (0)
Comments on Robert Goldblatt’s “Fine’s Theorem on First-Order Complete Modal Logics” (2020) (0)
A Theory of Truthmaker Content I: Conjunction, Disjunction and Negation (2017) (0)
The Second Philosophical Perspectives Lecture (2016) (0)
Coordination Within Thought (2008) (0)
Modal Logic and Its Application to the Philosophy Of Language (2012) (0)
Comments on Kathrin Koslicki’s “Essence and Identity” (2020) (0)
Honest toil or sheer magic?. Commentary. Author's reply (2007) (0)
The Problem of Vagueness (2020) (0)
Comments on Scott Shalkowski’s “Essence and Nominalism” (2020) (0)
2000-2001 Winter Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (2001) (0)
In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism. Commentary (2008) (0)
The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects, by Leon Horsten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 232. (2020) (0)
Identity criteria and ground (2015) (0)
Towards a neo-aristotelian mereology. Commentary. Author's reply (2007) (0)
The Question of Realism Kit (2007) (0)
Review: Krister Segerberg, Decidability of S4.1 (1974) (0)
S U R F a C E -c O M P O S I T I O N a L S C O P E -a L T E R N a T I O N (2009) (0)
The Phenomenon of Vagueness (2020) (0)
Coordination Within Language (2008) (0)
Yablo on subject-matter (2018) (0)
Ignorance of ignorance (2017) (0)
The World of Truth-Making (2018) (0)
2. The Live Concert Experience (2021) (0)
Comments on Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green’s “Ontology: What’s the (Real) Question?” (2020) (0)
Comments on Friederike Moltmann’s “Variable Objects and Truth-Making” (2020) (0)
For so many individuals (1972) (0)
Some Remarks on the Role of Essence in Kripke's “Naming and Necessity” (2021) (0)
Response to Alan Weir (2007) (0)
Times, Worlds and Selves (1979) (0)
Angellic Content (2015) (0)
Segerberg Krister. Decidability of S4.1. Theoria (Lund), vol. 34 (1968), pp. 7–20. (1974) (0)
Comments on Graeme Forbes’s “Fine’s New Semantics of Vagueness” (2020) (0)
Semantics (2018) (0)
Coordination Among Variables (2008) (0)
JSL volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter and Errata (1985) (0)
Comments on Fabrice Correia’s “More on the Reduction of Necessity to Essence” (2020) (0)
Comments on Gideon Rosen’s “What is Normative Necessity?” (2020) (0)
First-Order Modal Theories I--Sets.First-Order Modal Theories.First-Order Modal Theories III--Facts (1988) (0)
Comment’s on Philip Percival’s “Beyond Reality?” (2020) (0)
Review: R. A. Bull, On the Extension of S4 with CLMpMLp (1974) (0)
A Theory of Truthmaker Content II: Subject-matter, Common Content, Remainder and Ground (2017) (0)
The Journal of Philosophy Temporal Experience* (0)
The possibility of vagueness (2015) (0)

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