Adriane Rini

Adriane Allison Rini is an American academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research interests include Aristotelian logic, modal logic, and the history of logic.

Academic career Rini earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College. 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.

She moved to New Zealand in 1993 to Victoria University of Wellington, and in 1999 took a lecturing position at Massey University. She was promoted to full professor in 2018, with effect from 1 January 2019.

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". 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.

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