For the computer scientist, see Jonathan Schaeffer. For the musician, see Jon Schaffer.
Jonathan Schaffer
Education
Rutgers University (PhD), Kenyon College (BA)
Institutions
Rutgers University
Thesis
Causation and the Probabilities of Processes (1999)
Doctoral advisor
Brian P. McLaughlin
Other academic advisors
Barry Loewer, Tim Maudlin, David Lewis
Jonathan Schaffer is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and also working in epistemology, mind, and language. He is best known for his work on grounding and his development of monism, and is also a notable proponent of contrastivism.
JonathanSchaffer is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and also working in epistemology, mind, and language. He is best known for his...
after 1880), the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common...
contrast theory of meaning, is an epistemological theory proposed by JonathanSchaffer that suggests that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure...
extended use, the term is "systematically ambiguous". According to JonathanSchaffer, monism lost popularity due to the emergence of analytic philosophy...
Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics, Oxford University Press, 1999. JonathanSchaffer (2009). "On What Grounds What Metametaphysics" (PDF). In Chalmers;...
Contemporary proponents, including David Lewis, David Malet Armstrong, and JonathanSchaffer, continue in a neo-Human, empiricist tradition that argues for categorical...
alternative to contextualism called contrastivism has been proposed by JonathanSchaffer. Contrastivism, like contextualism, uses semantic approaches to tackle...
are needed to make it true. However, this view has been attacked by JonathanSchaffer, who has argued that truthmaking is not an adequate test for ontological...
troupe The Lonely Island, with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. In 2010, Taccone co-wrote and directed the SNL spinoff film MacGruber...
The series was created by Greg Schaffer who was also expected to executive produce alongside Jeff Schaffer, Jonathan Stern, and Keith Quinn. The series...
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Atomism in the Seventeenth Century JonathanSchaffer, "Is There a Fundamental Level?" Nous 37 (2003): 498–517. By a philosopher...
The University of Minnesota Press. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-8166-4763-7. JonathanSchaffer (2009). "Chapter 12: On what grounds what" (PDF). In David Chalmers;...
Philosophical Association (APA), has awarded the 2014 Lebowitz Prizes to JonathanSchaffer (Rutgers) and Jessica Wilson (The University of Toronto) for Philosophical...
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the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2013. Parsons, Alan; JonathanSchaffer (May 2004). Geopolitics of oil and natural gas. Economic Perspectives...
first printed description was published only in 1886 - Kalinin, p.1. JonathanSchaffer (2009, November 29). Smithsonian Rare Russian Coin Collection Seeks...
comedy music group The Lonely Island alongside childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Samberg was also a cast member and writer for the NBC...
on its south wall, flanked by portraits of college presidents. Schaffer Library: Schaffer Library, erected in 1961, was the first building constructed at...
Violence Prosecution, and Family Violence Litigation. Albany Law School's Schaffer Law Library holds a collection of more than 730,000 volumes and equivalents...
was officially greenlit with Neeson in the lead role. Directed by Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, who were also hired to write a new draft of...
1992, p. 197. Kuzmanovic 2009, p. 411. Craft 1984, p. 107. Schaffer 1994, p. 382. Schaffer 1994, p. 381. Craft 1984, p. 110. Craft 1984, p. 109. Demetrakopoulos...
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