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The tools of metaphysics and the metaphysics of science: Theodore Sider by Sider, Theodore

“…"Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical…”
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Ground grounded by Sider, Theodore

“…Most facts of grounding involve nonfundamental concepts, and thus must themselves be grounded. But how? The leading approaches—due to Bennett, deRosset, and…”
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Dasgupta's Detonation by Sider, Theodore

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All the world's a stage by Sider, Theodore

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The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance by Sider, Theodore

“…Abstract Quantifier variantists accept multiple alternative ontological languages in which quantifiers obey the usual inference rules despite having different…”
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Substantivity in feminist metaphysics by Sider, Theodore

“…Elizabeth Barnes and Mari Mikkola raise the important question of whether certain recent approaches to metaphysics exclude feminist metaphysics. My own…”
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Parthood by Sider, Theodore

“…Sider discusses composition, composites and parthood from a philosophical perspective. Sider explores the concepts of composition as identity and the unique…”
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Hirsch's Attack on Ontologese by Sider, Theodore

“…According to Eli Hirsch, non-commonsensical ontological claims just couldn't be true. Oversimplifying: there is strong metasemantic pressure to charitably…”
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On Williamson and simplicity in modal logic by Sider, Theodore

“…According to Timothy Williamson, we should accept the simplest and most powerful second-order modal logic, and as a result accept an ontology of "bare…”
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Replies to Dorr, Fine, and Hirsch by Sider, Theodore

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Outscoping and Discourse Threat by Sider, Theodore

“…For various philosophical purposes it is sometimes necessary to give truth-conditions for sentences of a discourse in other terms. According to Agustín Rayo,…”
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Précis of Writing the Book of the World by Sider, Theodore

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Symposium on "Writing the Book of the World" by Sider, Theodore

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Against Vague and Unnatural Existence: Reply to Liebesman and Eklund by Sider, Theodore

“…The interdeterminacy argument is not as independent of the naturalness argument as it may have appeared. Whether quantifier variance is true, or whether…”
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Vague, So Untrue by Braun, David, Sider, Theodore

“…According to an old and attractive view, vagueness must be eliminated before semantic notions may be applied. This view--call it semantic nihilism--was…”
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Against monism by Sider, Theodore

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"BARE PARTICULARS" by Sider, Theodore

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What's So Bad About Overdetermination? by SIDER, THEODORE

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Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument Against Coincident Entities by SIDER, THEODORE

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Williamson's many necessary existents by Sider, Theodore

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