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Citations
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5820
National Ranking
2761

Overview

Theodore Sider is an academic affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, with a focus on both philosophical and scientific topics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Sider's subfields of study comprise:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Their primary research topics encompass:

  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Philosophy, Science, and History

Recent scholarly articles by Theodore Sider include:

  • "Dasgupta's Detonation," 2022, published in Philosophical Perspectives
  • "The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance," 2023, published in The Monist
  • "Issue Information," 2023, published in Noûs (papers authored by Michael Hicks and Jon Erling Litland related to this issue, also one by John Hawthorne in Philosophical Perspectives, though not by Sider directly)

Sider has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • John Hawthorne
  • Nathan Salmón
  • Peter van Inwagen
  • Cian Dorr
  • Hector-Neri Castan

Their work has appeared often in specific academic venues, such as:

  • Philosophical Perspectives
  • Noûs
  • The Monist

Regarding book publications, Theodore Sider authored "The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science," published by Oxford University Press in 2020. This work has been cited extensively in scholarly literature.

Best Publications

  • Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time

    Theodore Sider

  • Writing the Book of the World

    Theodore Sider

  • All the world's a stage

    Theodore Sider

  • Contemporary debates in metaphysics

    Theodore Sider;John Hawthorne;Dean W. Zimmerman

  • Reductive Theories of Modality

    Theodore Sider

  • Van inwagen and the possibility of gunk

    Theodore Sider

  • Presentism and ontological commitment

    Theodore Sider

  • What's So Bad About Overdetermination?

    Theodore Sider

  • Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis

    Theodore Sider

  • The Ersatz pluriverse

    Theodore Sider

  • Maximality and Intrinsic Properties

    Theodore Sider

  • Quantifiers and Temporal Ontology

    Theodore Sider

  • Logic for Philosophy

    Theodore Sider

  • The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science

    Theodore Sider

  • Against Vague Existence

    Theodore Sider

  • Vague, So Untrue

    David Braun;Theodore Sider

  • Tooley's solution to the inference problem

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  • Global Supervenience and Identity across Times and Worlds

    Theodore Sider

  • In defense of global supervenience

    R. Cranston Paull;Theodore R. Sider

  • Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience

    Theodore Sider

  • Replies to Dorr, Fine, and Hirsch

    Theodore Sider

  • The worlds of possibility

    Theodore Sider

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