Professor Ian Rumfitt

Email  i.rumfitt@bbk.ac.uk

Ian Rumfitt studied philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Princeton University, and has taught it at Keele University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and back at Oxford, where he was for seven years a Tutorial Fellow of University College.   He joined the Birkbeck Department in 2005.  He works mainly in philosophy of language and logic, and in the history of analytic philosophy (Frege) with forays into metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics.

His two most recent published papers are:

'Plural terms: another variety of reference?' in J. L. Bermudez (ed.) Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans , (OUP, 2005)
'Meaning and understanding', in F. Jackson and M. Smith (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (OUP, 2005)