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Adriane Rini first joined Massey in 1999. Her principal interests are the history of logic, Aristotle, and the philosophical applications of modern formal logic. Her research has earned numerous awards and honours including a Foreign Fellowship at the Royal Flemish Academy (2010), and three Marsden Grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand (2003,2006,2010). She was visiting associate professor at TexasA&M University (2007) and has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of California-Davis, and Victoria University of Wellington. She is author of two books: Aristotle’s Modal Proofs (Springer 2011) and, with M.J. Cresswell, The World-Time Parallel (Cambridge 2012).
Other Professional Activities
2015-2018 Member of the Philosophy and Ethics Expert Panel (Cult5), Flemish Research Organization, Brussels
2012-2014 Member of the Humanities Panel (HUM), Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand
2013 Convenor, Working Party on the Future of the Organization of New Zealand Philosophy
2012-2014 Member of the Association of Women in the Sciences, New Zealand
2012-2015 Member of the Committee for Philosophy in Higher Education, Australasian Association of Philosophy
2011-2015 New Zealand Representative, Council of the Australasian Association of Philosophy
2011-2015 Member of the Standing Committee for Women and Philosophy, Australasian Association of Philosophy
2010-2012 Secretary of the New Zealand Division, Australasian Association of Philosophy
2010- Member of the Association of Symbolic Logic
2010- Member of the Committee for Logic in Australasia, in the Association of Symbolic Logic
2009 NZ Representative, Women in Philosophy: A Symposium, the Australia National University, Canberra
2009 President Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division)
2008 Founding Member, Women@Massey
Adriane Rini first joined Massey in 1999. Her principal interests are the history of logic, Aristotle, and the philosophical applications of modern formal logic. Her research has earned numerous awards and honours including a Foreign Fellowship at the Royal Flemish Academy (2010), and four Marsden Grants (2003;2006;2010;2017) from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of California-Davis, Texas A&M University, and Victoria University of Wellington. She is author of Aristotle’s Modal Proofs (2011); The World-Time Parallel (2012, with M.J. Cresswell); and an editor of Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap (2016).
CURRENT RESEARCH 2018:
In 2018-2020, my main research focus is on the work on A.N. Prior, 'the father of tense logic' and New Zealand's most famous philosopher. The world celebrated Prior's 100th Birthday in 2014, with centenary conferences at Oxford and at Canterbury. Here is a link to some of the festivities: [link]
Research Grants
2003 The Syllogistic Basis of Aristotle's Science, Marsden Fast-Start Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand ($50,000)
2006 The World-Time Parallel, Marsden Grant, RSNZ ($390,000, with M.J. Cresswell)
2010 Flight from Intension, Residential Foreign Fellowship, Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts (NZ$44,000 approx)
2010 A Natural History of Necessity, Marsden Grant, RSNZ ($750,000, with ED Mares and MJ Cresswell)
2013-4 Looking at Logical Consequence: A Catalogue of How Introductory Logic Texts Explain Validity, CoHSS Summer Student Scholaship (with Rebecca James)
2016 Women Students of Wittgenstein and Russell, Masset University Research Fund (with Juliet Ayre)
2017 The Logic of Ordinary Language, Marsden Grant, RSNZ ($630,000, with MJ Cresswell and ED Mares)
21st Century Citizenship
Field of research codes
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields (220200):
History of Philosophy (220210):
Logic (220308):
Metaphysics (220309):
Philosophy (220300):
Philosophy And Religious Studies (220000):
Philosophy of Language (220313)
History of logic, Aristotle, ancient philosophy, modal logic, tense logic, formal semantics, metaphysics (especially: metaphysics of time, possible worlds metaphysics), philosophy of language, modern philosophy, early 20th century philosophy, Quine, Arthur Prior, 'ordinary language philosophy', ethics of war and peace, women logicians.
| Position | Current | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| Project Leader | 1 | 4 |
Project Title: The Logic of Ordinary Language
Date Range: 2018 - 2021
Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand
Project Team:
Project Title: The world-time parallel
Date Range: 2007 - 2010
Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand
Project Team:
Massey University 1999-2014
PHIL 102 Great Western Philosophy
PHIL 104 Practical Ethics
PHIL 205 Logic
PHIL 209/309 Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 211 Political Theory (Cross-listed as Politics 311)
PHIL 216/316 Modern Philosophy: Rationalists & Empiricists
PHIL 218/318 Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 220/320 Business Ethics
PHIL 302 Metaphysics (Contemporary Metaphysics of Time)
PHIL 703 Ethics of War and Peace (Post-graduate)
PHIL 718 Environmental Philosophy (Post-graduate)
PHIL 730 Problems in Value Theory: Informal Deontic Logic (Post-graduate)
PHIL 740 Advanced Philosophical Topics: Russell, Quine and the Logical Positivists (Post-graduate)
PHIL 750 Advanced Philosophical Texts: Metaphysics of Modality: The Lewis-Stalnaker Debate (Post-graduate)
PHIL 750 Advanced Philosophical Texts: Time and Modality in Aristotle (Post-graduate)
PHIL 750 Advanced Philosophical Texts: Contemporary Issues in Metaphysics: Logical Atomism (Post-graduate)
PHIL 750 Advanced Philosophical Texts: On Providence (Post-graduate)
Ecology 101 New Zealand’s Natural Heritage
Politics 161 Introduction to Politics
Texas A&M University 2007
PHIL 410 Classical Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle
PHIL 663 Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology: The World-Time Parallel (Post-graduate: MA/PhD)
University of California, Davis 2000
PHIL 1 Introduction to Philosophy
Victoria University of Wellington 1993-1999
PHIL 105 Problems in Philosophy (tutor)
PHIL 201 Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 203 Introduction to Logic (tutor)
PHIL 224/324 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 225/325 Metaphysics (Philosophy of Time)
PHIL 311 Logic (Modal Logic)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1992-1995
PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy (TA)
PHIL 110 Introduction to Logic (TA)
PHIL 160 History of Ethics