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Professor Peter Fritz

Professor

Areas of expertise: logic; metaphysics; philosophy of language

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID :   0000-0001-5785-4013

Email: peter.fritz@acu.edu.au

Location:   ACU Melbourne Campus

I mainly work in logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. I also have interests in the philosophy of logic and mathematics. Much of my work is on questions concerning modality and existence, and involves modal or higher-order logic.

I received a BA in philosophy from the University of Konstanz, an MSc in logic from the University of Amsterdam, and a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2015. Before joining ACU in 2020, I was professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. 

Select publications

• “Structure by proxy, with an application to grounding,” Synthese, forthcoming. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02450-z
• “Operator arguments revisited,” with John Hawthorne and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Philosophical Studies176(11). 2019: 2933-2959. doi: 10.1007/s11098-018-1158-8
• “Can Modalities Save Naive Set Theory?” with Harvey Lederman, Tiankai Liu and Dana Scott, The Review of Symbolic Logic11(1). 2018: 21-47. doi: 10.1017/s1755020317000168
• “A Purely Recombinatorial Puzzle,” Noûs51(3). 2017: 547- 564. doi: 10.1111/nous.12172
• “Counting incompossibles,” with Jeremy Goodman, Mind126(504). 2017: 1063-1108. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzw026
• “Propositional contingentism,” The Review of Symbolic Logic 9(1). 2016: 123-142. doi: 10.1017/s1755020315000325
• “Higher-Order Contingentism, Part 1: Closure and Generation,” with Jeremy Goodman, Journal of Philosophical Logic 45(6). 2016: 645-695. doi: 10.1007/s10992-015-9388-0
• “A logic for epistemic two-dimensional semantics,” Synthese 190(10). 2013: 1753-1770. doi: 10.1007/s11229-013-0260-x 

Appointments and affiliations

• Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2017-2020
• Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2017
• Post-doctoral researcher in Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2015-2017