Schaffer, Jonathan

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Jonathan Schaffer Professor
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Homepage:	http://www.jonathanschaffer.org/

Education

Ph.D Rutgers 1999

Speciality

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language

Research and Professional Activities

Selected Publications

“The Internal Relatedness of All Things,” Mind 119 (2010), 341-76

“Monism: The Priority of the Whole,” Philosophical Review 119.1 (2010), 31-76

“On What Grounds What,” Metametaphysics, eds. Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman (2009), 347-83: OUP

“Knowing the Answer,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75.2 (2007), 383-403

“Contrastive Causation,” Philosophical Review 114.3 (2005), 327-58

Why Philosophy?

Undergraduate Program

Graduate Program

Faculty Profiles

New & Noteworthy

Undergraduate major awarded the Koury Walker First-Generation Student Summer Scholarship

Xudong Ma, a double major in philosophy and linguistics, has been selected as a recipient of the Koury Walker First-Generation Student Summer Scholarship for his research on 'Reference and Variability of Semantics' under the supervision of...
We regret to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Frederic J. Schick

Professor Schick worked on decision theory, philosophy of action, and philosophy of economics. He is the author of, among other things, Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons (1991), Making Choices: A Recasting of Decision Theory (1997), and Ambiguity...
Undergraduate major to present at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA

Jake Khawaja to give a Symposium at the 2023 Eastern APA "My paper Rationalizing the Principal Principle for Non-Humean Chance. The paper is about the intersection of two questions. (1) what is the right way to think about the metaphysics of objective...
Alex Guerrero and Denise Dykstra recognized for contributions to Undergraduate Education

Professor Guerrero and Denise Dykstra received the 2022 School of Arts and Sciences Award for their Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education Each year, awards for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education are given to...
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Alex Guerrero Awarded 2022 Lebowitz Prize

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Alum Eddy Chen wins Popper Prize

Recent Ph.D. Eddy Chen, now an assistant professor at UCSD, has won the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’s Popper Prize, for best article [Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State]...
Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy

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