Ted Sider

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Ted (Theodore) Sider is an American philosopher .

Sider is a son of the Mennonite left evangelical historian Ron Sider and his wife Arbutus Lichti from Philadelphia . He is one of the best known contemporary analytical philosophers, especially in the field of ontology , where he defends a four-dimensional ontology and has made important contributions to the recent debates on topics of metaphysics , modality, natural species, time and supervenience. His other areas of work also include topics related to the philosophy of language ; in teaching he also teaches logic.

He studied 1984-88 at Gordon College, 1988-92 at the Graduate School in Massachusetts, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993 in Amherst. acquired. He then taught at the University of Rochester from 1992–1998, at Syracuse University from 1998–2002 and since 2011 at Cornell University .

His much-discussed book Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford, 2001) received the 2003 Book Prize of the American Philosophical Association (APA, previously known as the Matchette Prize).

Sider is co-editor of the journals Philosophical Studies , Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and Noûs .

Publications

  • Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time , Oxford 2001 Review by Hud Hudson
  • with Earl Conee: Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics , Oxford 2005
  • Logic for Philosophy , Oxford, forthcoming Draft on its website
  • Edited with John Hawthorne, Dean Zimmerman: Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics , Basil Blackwell 2007

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  1. ↑ For a brief outline of the position defended there cf. the articles Four Dimensionalism , in: Philosophical Review 106 (1997), pp. 197-231 and Precis of Four-Dimensionalism, and Replies to Critics , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004), pp. 642-647, 674-687
  2. ↑ http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11098
  3. ↑ http://ndpr.nd.edu/
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SURNAME Sider, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sider, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century