Professor Frederick William Kroon

MA (Auckland), PhD (Princeton)

Professor | Philosophy

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  • Faculty of Arts
  • Humanities
  • Philosophy


ARTS 2
Level 2, Room 207-202
18 SYMONDS ST
Auckland 1010
New Zealand

Biography

  • Postgraduate Adviser BA(Hons) and MA Philosophy,
  • Associate Dean (Postgraduate)

Research | Current

  • Logic, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology.

 

Philosophical logic, especially theories of reference and truth; the nature of rationality; realism; fictionalism and "non-existent objects".
 

Associate Professor Fred Kroon's Research

 

Teaching | Current

Department: Arts Faculty Office, Department of Philosophy

 

Philosophy
Course Title Availability in 2012
PHIL 202 Philosophy of Language Semester 1
PHIL 222 Intermediate Logic Semester 2
PHIL 305 Advanced Logic Semester 1
PHIL 306 Language, Truth and Meaning Availability to be advised
PHIL 322 Philosophy of Language Semester 1
PHIL 737 Logic 2 Semester 2
PHIL 747 Epistemology 1 Not offered in 2012.


Associate Professor Fred Kroon's Teaching

 

Selected Publications and Creative Works (Research Outputs)

  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). Fictionalism in metaphysics. Philosophy Compass, 6 (11), 786-803. 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00442.x
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). The content problem for empty names. Paper presented at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). The fiction of creationism. In F. Lihoreau (Ed.) Truth in fiction (pp. 203-221). Frankfurt: Ontos.
  • Kroon, F. W., & Voltolini, A. (2011). Fiction. Entry survey the topic of fiction in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA.
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). Review of Ravenscroft, Ian, ed., Mind, ethics, and conditionals: themes from the philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 89 (2), 367-370. 10.1080/00048402.2010.505315
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). Characterising characterisation. Paper presented at 'Beyond the Possible' — Remembering Richard Sylvan, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 27 July - 29 July 2011.
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). The social life of fictional entities. Paper presented at Workshop on 'Fictional Entities and Other Social Objects', University of Turin, Turin, Italy. 26 May - 27 May 2011.
  • Kroon, F. W. (2011). Two problems for pragmatic-descriptive accounts of empty names. Paper presented at the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, on 6 Oct 2011.