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| Occupation | Philosopher |
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| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thesis | Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gareth Matthews |
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| Institutions | Massey University |
Adriane Allison Rini is an American academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. [1] Her research interests include Aristotelian logic,modal logic,and the history of logic.
Rini earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College. [2] She graduated with a PhD on modal logic from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997,with the thesis Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic supervised by Gareth Matthews. [3]
She moved to New Zealand in 1993 to Victoria University of Wellington,and in 1999 took a lecturing position at Massey University. [4] She was promoted to full professor in 2018,with effect from 1 January 2019. [5]
Rini has received four Marsden grants,including a grant to study the significance of the work of New Zealand philosopher Arthur Prior,who invented tense (or temporal) logic,and has been described as "laying the path to AI". [6] [7] [8] In 2010 she was awarded a Foreign Fellowship at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts,to study the development of Quine's attitude to modal logic. [5]
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