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Dean Zimmerman

Philosophy

#945

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#1810

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#410

USA Rank

Logic

#2920

World Rank

#3996

Historical Rank

#648

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PhD Philosophy University of Notre Dame
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Dean W. Zimmerman is an American professor of philosophy at Rutgers University specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Education and career Zimmerman received his bachelor's degree from Mankato State University in 1987 in French, philosophy, and English. He went on to receive a Master of Arts degree from Brown University in 1990 and then a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the same institution in 1992, where he worked with Jaegwon Kim and Roderick Chisholm. He taught at the University of Notre Dame and Syracuse University prior to joining Rutgers University, where he is also now Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion. Zimmerman was hired to Rutgers at the same time as John Hawthorne and Ted Sider. Zimmerman is a Christian and a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers. He also serves on the board of advisors of the Marc Sanders Foundation, which awards prizes for outstanding work in philosophy.

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Dean Zimmerman 's Published Works

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Published Works

The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (2005) (313)
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2011) (181)
Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution (1995) (154)
The Privileged Present: Defending an 'A-Theory' of Time (2007) (115)
Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics (2008) (103)
Against Parthood* (2020) (86)
The A‐Theory of Time, The B‐Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’ (2005) (82)
Presentism and the Space‐Time Manifold (2011) (80)
Persistence and presentism (1996) (64)
The compatibility of materialism and survival: The "Falling elevator" model (1999) (57)
I—Dean Zimmerman: From Property Dualism to Substance Dualism (2010) (53)
Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism (1998) (52)
The Constitution of Persons by Bodies: A Critique of Lynne Rudder Baker’s Theory of Material Constitution (2002) (49)
Metaphysics: The Big Questions (2007) (48)
Indivisible Parts and Extended Objects: Some Philosophical Episodes from Topology's Prehistory (1996) (44)
Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory (1997) (33)
Temporal parts and supervenient causation: The incompatibility of two Humean doctrines (1998) (32)
Cyclic interdigestive pancreatic exocrine secretion: is it mediated by neural or hormonal mechanisms? (1992) (32)
Criteria of Identity and the ‘Identity Mystics’ (1998) (27)
On Perceiving God (2019) (19)
Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology? (2002) (17)
Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument (2010) (16)
Coincident Objects: Could a ‘Stuff Ontology’ Help? (1997) (16)
One really big liquid sphere: Reply to Lewis (1999) (15)
An Anti‐Molinist Replies (2011) (14)
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 6 (2012) (13)
Philosophical Perspectives, Language and Philosophical Linguistics (2003) (12)
Immanent causation : Causation and emergence (1996) (12)
Theology and Tense (1997) (12)
Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited (2016) (11)
The Providential Usefulness of "Simple Foreknowledge" (2012) (11)
Scala and the Spinning Spheres (2002) (11)
Personal Identity and the Survival of Death (2012) (10)
Problems for Animalism (2008) (9)
Indivisible Parts and Extended Objects (1996) (8)
Naturalizing Metaphysics with the Help of Cognitive Science (2014) (7)
Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism, with Postscript (2005) * (2005) (6)
God inside Time and before Creation (2011) (6)
Personal Identity: Materialism, dualism, and “simple” theories of personal identity (2009) (5)
A Recent Defense of Monism Based Upon the Internal Relatedness of All Things (2011) (4)
God, Evil, and the Contemplation of Infinitely Many Options (2006) (3)
The A-Theory of Time, Presentism, and Open Theism (2010) (3)
Mind-Body Dualism (2011) (3)
Philosophical Perspectives, Ethics (2004) (3)
Properties, Minds, and Bodies: An Examination of Sydney Shoemaker’s Metaphysics* (2009) (3)
Language and Philosophical Linguistics (2003) (3)
Should a Christian Be a Mind–Body Dualist? (2007) (3)
Pro Haskeris Contradictione (2011) (2)
A Précis of 'Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument' (2012) (2)
God in an Open Universe (2011) (2)
Shoemaker’s Argument for his Theory of Properties (2000) (1)
Richard Gale and the Free Will Defense (2003) (1)
On the logic of intentional help: Some metaphysical questions (1996) (1)
Vague Singulars, Semantic Indecision, and the Metaphysics of Persons (2010) (1)
Is God responsible for evil (2019) (0)
The argument from ideological parsimony 2 (2013) (0)
Language and Philosophical Linguistics, 2003 (2003) (0)
Jewels in the Ontological Trash Heap (2019) (0)
Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, eds., PERSONS: HUMAN AND DIVINE (2020) (0)
Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism (2019) (0)
Ever Better Situations and the Failure of Expression Principles (2018) (0)
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 9 (2019) (0)
Dispatches from the zombie wars (2006) (0)
Review: Saving God from Saving God (2012) (0)
Robinson's Regress Argument from Vagueness to Dualism (2022) (0)
Presentism: Essential Readings (2010) (0)
TROUBLES WITH THEORETICAL VIRTUES: RESISTING THEORETICAL UTILITY ARGUMENTS IN METAPHYSICS (2021) (0)

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