Theodore Sider

Ted Sider
Born
Theodore Ronald Sider
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD)
ThesisNaturalness, Intrinsicality, and Duplication (1993)
Doctoral advisorPhillip Bricker
Other advisorsFred Feldman, Edmund Gettier, Angelika Kratzer
Academic work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionAnalytic
Main interestsMetaphysics, philosophy of language
Notable ideasOntological four-dimensionalism
Websitehttps://tedsider.org/

Theodore Ronald Sider (simply known as Ted Sider) is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Family

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Sider is the son of theologian Ronald Sider. He is the partner of Jill North, who is also hired by Rutgers' philosophy faculty.

Education and career

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Since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1993, Sider has taught at the University of Rochester, Syracuse University, New York University, Cornell University, and Rutgers University from 2002 to 2007 and, again, since 2015. Sider has published three books and some four dozen papers.[1] He has also edited a textbook in metaphysics with John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman.[2]

Sider was the recipient of the 2003 APA Book Prize for his book, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time.[3] He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 2016.[4]

Books

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  • Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (2001). Oxford University Press; Japanese (2007) Shunjusha.
  • Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics (co-author Earl Conee) (2005). Oxford University Press; Japanese (2009). Shunjusha; Portuguese (2010). Bizâncio.
  • Logic for Philosophy (2010). Oxford University Press.
  • Writing the Book of the World (2011). Oxford University Press.
  • The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science (2020). Oxford University Press

References

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  1. ^ Sider's CV
  2. ^ Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
  3. ^ Waters, Anne; Kim, David H.; Garcia, J. L. A.; May, Larry; Fisher, Saul; Cavalier, Robert; Nails, Debra; Nuccetelli, Susana; Outlaw, Lucius; Olson, Alan M.; Chekola, Mark; McCarthy, Thomas; Kipnis, Kenneth; Weinstein, Mark; French, Peter; McKenna, Erin; Granitto, James V.; Tuana, Nancy (2004). "Reports of APA Committees". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 77 (5): 69–109. JSTOR 3219762.
  4. ^ "John Locke Lectures - Faculty of Philosophy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2008.
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