Fraser Macbride

Fraser Macbride is a Professor and Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at The University of Manchester. He holds a PhD from King's College London and a BA from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy. He has authored works such as On the Genealogy of Universals and edited the Monist. His current projects explore metaphysical issues related to relatedness and the history of late analytic philosophy.

He has received the Philip Leverhulme Prize and fellowships from AHRC, the British Academy, and others. Macbride has supervised students on topics like meta-ontology, essentialism, and neo-Fregeanism, currently advising Oliver Spinney on Bradley's problem of unity. His teaching includes the Philosophy of Language course.

Research interests span meta-ontology, truth-making, universals, structuralism, and the works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Macbride has contributed to projects like the AHRC-funded ‘Age of Metaphysical Revolution’ and collaborates on studies of David Lewis and analytic philosophy’s development.