Crispin Wright is a professional philosopher specialising in epistemology, the philosophies of language and mathematics, and the philosophies of Frege and of the later Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. Previously, he taught at Aberdeen where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and directed the Northern Institute of Philosophy, Columbia, Michigan, NYU, Oxford, Princeton, and St. Andrews where he was the first Wardlaw University Professor and founded the philosophical research centre, Arché.

His personal research awards include a Prize and then a Research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford (1969-78); a British Academy Research Readership (1990-92); and a Leverhulme Trust Personal Research professorship (1998-2003).

From November 30 2025 he will be (as he hopes, temporarily) unemployed.

Wright’s books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (Harvard UP 1980), Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects (Humanities Press 1983), Truth and Objectivity (Harvard UP 1992), Realism Meaning and Truth (Blackwell 1986, 2nd edition 1992), The Reason’s Proper Study (with Bob Hale, Oxford UP 2001), Rails to Infinity (Harvard UP 2001), Saving the Differences (Harvard UP 2003), The Riddle of Vagueness (Oxford UP 2021), and Essays on Relativism (Oxford UP 2023).

A second edition of Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects and an anthology of Wright’s papers on Epistemology, provisionally entitled Imploding the Demon, are currently in preparation for publication by Oxford University Press.