Professor Frederick William Kroon
MA (Auckland), PhD (Princeton)
Research | Current
- Philosophy of language, especially theory of reference, pretence theory and fictionalist accounts of linguistic practices
- Philosophy of fiction
- Philosophy of computation
- Philosophical logic, in particular semantic paradoxes
- Metaphysics, especially meta-ontology, the nature of existence and non-existence and intentional objects
Current research is centred on fictionalism, and on using pretence theory to help solve problems in philosophical logic.
Teaching | Current
COMPSCI 350 Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
LOGICOMP 301 Philosophy and Computing
PHIL 202 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 306 Language, Truth and Meaning
PHIL 322 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 739 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 747 Epistemology 1
Postgraduate supervision
Current supervision
Doctoral theses:
Tahua O’leary, ‘Naturalising the Unity of Desires: Michael Smith on the Analysis of 'Right'’
Marinus Ferreira, ‘Limited Conventionalism of Morals’
Bruce Sheridan, ‘Imagination and Creativity’
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Kroon, F. (2018). Pushing the Boundaries of Pretence. Analysis (United Kingdom), 78 (4), 703-712. 10.1093/analys/any059
- Kroon, F. (2018). Pretense and Pathology: Philosophical Fictionalism and its Applications. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 96 (3), 616-618. 10.1080/00048402.2018.1435699
- Kroon, F. (2017). Mill’s philosophy of language. In C. Macleod, D. E. Miller (Eds.) A companion to Mill (pp. 207-221). Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
- Calude, C., Kroon, F., & POZNANOVIC, N. (2016). Free will is compatible with randomness. Philosophical Inquiries, 4 (2), 37-52.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Cristian Calude - Kroon, F. (2016). The Radical Emptiness of Empty Terms: Saving the Buddhists from the Nyaya. In P. Bilimoria, M. Hemmingsen (Eds.) (pp. 39-53). SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG. 10.1007/978-3-319-17873-8_5
- Kroon, F. (2015). Presuming consent in the ethics of posthumous sperm procurement and conception. Reproductive BioMedicine and Society Online, 1 (2), 123-130. 10.1016/j.rbms.2016.05.003
- Kroon, F. (2015). Review of Denis FISETTE & Guillaume FRÉCHETTE (eds.), Themes from Brentano. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2013. Grazer Philosophische Studien: internationale Zeitschrift fuer analytische Philosophie, 92, 152-155.
- Berto, F., Kroon, F., & Voltolini, A. (2014). Metaontology: Introduction. The Monist, 97 (4), 423-429. 10.1093/monist/97.4.423
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Contact details
Primary office location
HUMANITIES BUILDING - Bldg 206
Level 4, Room 443
14A SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand