Jonathan Schaffer

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Jonathan Schaffer

Philosophy

#451

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#937

Historical Rank

#211

USA Rank

Logic

#2291

World Rank

#3255

Historical Rank

#561

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Jonathan Schaffer's Published Works

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Published Works

Monism: The Priority of the Whole (2010) (709)
Grounding in the image of causation (2016) (398)
Is There a Fundamental Level (2003) (314)
Contrastive Causation (2006) (266)
Causation by Disconnection (2000) (208)
From Contextualism to Contrastivism (2004) (179)
Spacetime the one substance (2009) (164)
Metaphysical Grounding: Grounding, transitivity, and contrastivity (2012) (162)
Trumping Preemption (153)
Knowing the Answer (2007) (152)
What Not to Multiply Without Necessity (2015) (139)
Two conceptions of sparse properties (2004) (136)
Deterministic Chance? (2007) (125)
The Internal Relatedness of All Things (2010) (120)
From nihilism to monism (2007) (120)
The Ground Between the Gaps (2017) (118)
Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals (2011) (117)
Contrastive Knowledge Surveyed (2012) (107)
The least discerning and most promiscuous truthmaker (2010) (101)
DISCONNECTION AND RESPONSIBILITY (2012) (81)
The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-sensitive Invariantism (2006) (80)
Knowledge, stakes, and mistakes (2015) (77)
Quiddistic Knowledge (2005) (77)
Truthmaker commitments (2008) (76)
Causes need not be Physically Connected to their Effects : The Case for Negative Causation (2003) (75)
Overdetermining Causes (2003) (74)
The Contrast‐sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions (2008) (74)
Counterfactuals, causal independence and conceptual circularity (2004) (71)
Knowledge entails dispositional belief (2013) (70)
Quantum holism: nonseparability as common ground (2020) (70)
The Individuation of Tropes (2001) (68)
Laws for Metaphysical Explanation (2017) (64)
KNOWLEDGE IN THE IMAGE OF ASSERTION (2008) (64)
Closure, Contrast, and Answer (2007) (63)
Skepticism, Contextualism, and Discrimination* (2004) (61)
Monism (2020) (57)
Truth and Fundamentality: On Merricks's Truth and Ontology (2008) (57)
Causes as Probability Raisers of Processes (2001) (55)
Folk Mereology is Teleological (2017) (53)
Epistemic comparativism: a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions (2014) (45)
It is the Business of Laws to Govern (2016) (44)
Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism (2007) (42)
The Action of the Whole (2013) (41)
Derivative Properties in Fundamental Laws (2015) (41)
Social construction as grounding; or: fundamentality for feminists, a reply to Barnes and Mikkola (2017) (39)
Ground Rules: Lessons from Wilson (2016) (38)
Necessitarian propositions (2012) (37)
Cause without Default (2017) (37)
THE DEFLATIONARY METAONTOLOGY OF THOMASSON'S ORDINARY OBJECTS (2009) (36)
The debasing demon (2010) (35)
Against monism (2006) (33)
CONTRASTIVE CAUSATION IN THE LAW (2010) (33)
Causation, influence, and effluence (2001) (31)
The Problem of Free Mass: Must Properties Cluster? (2003) (29)
Knowledge, relevant alternatives and missed clues (2001) (25)
Principled Chances (2003) (25)
A companion to David Lewis (2015) (20)
Anchoring as Grounding: On Epstein’s the Ant Trap (2019) (19)
Knowing the Answer Redux: Replies to Brogaard and Kallestrup (2009) (18)
Folk teleology drives persistence judgments (2018) (18)
Overlappings: Probability-raising without causation (2000) (18)
Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events (2004) (16)
Metaphysical Semantics Meets Multiple Realizability (2013) (15)
9. Contrastive Knowledge (2009) (11)
Why the World Has Parts: Reply to Horgan and Potrč (2011) (11)
The Blackwell Companion to David Lewis (2015) (10)
Perceptual Knowledge Derailed (2003) (9)
Confessions of a schmentencite: towards an explicit semantics (2018) (9)
Ground Functionalism (9)
Cognitive Science and Metaphysics (2016) (5)
" Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain " : Lewis on Mereology for Blackwell Companion To (2014) (5)
Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions (2015) (3)
Writing the Book of the WorldBook ReviewsBook Reviews (2014) (3)
Reviews-Physical Causation (2001) (2)
Book review: Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (2010) (2)
Microcomputers and music (1986) (2)
Phil Dowe And Paul NoordhofCause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World (2007) (2)
Bibliography of the Work of David Lewis (2015) (2)
Intelligent Tutoring Systems: New Realms in CAI? (1990) (2)
Eternalism And Propositional Multitasking : In Defence Of The Operator Argument Draft (2011) (2)
Taking causing out of Bennett's Making Things Up (2019) (2)
Monism : The Priority of theWhole (2009) (2)
A One Category Ontology (2011) (2)
Shape/interval contours and their ordered transformations: A motivic approach to twentieth-century music analysis and aural skills (2005) (1)
The primitivist response to the inference problem (2022) (1)
Book Review: Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World (2007) (1)
Book Review: Theodore Sider, Writing the Book of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiv + 336 pp. (2014) (1)
Threader: A Computer Interface for the Graphic Entry, Encoding, and Analysis of Musical Scores (1994) (1)
6 Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals (2015) (0)
Contrastive Knowledge: Reply to Baumann (2011) (0)
Review of Peter Castine’s Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music (1996) (0)
UTTEMANN What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? London: Routledge, 2004, price ($115/£65) ISBN: 0-415-32794-6, hardback (2008) (0)
ROBERT STALNAKER COMMENTS ON “ FROM CONTEXTUALISM TO CONTRASTIVISM (2004) (0)
Processes , Pre-emption and Further Problems (2018) (0)
Erratum: Knowing the answer (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2007) 75:2 (383-403)) (2008) (0)
Social construction as grounding; or: fundamentality for feminists, a reply to Barnes and Mikkola (2016) (0)
Review of Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997) (1999) (0)
Necessitarian propositions (2012) (0)
12 On What Grounds What (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 2 . 2 Causation and Laws of Nature : Reductionism (2014) (0)
What is Contrastivism (2011) (0)
Epistemic comparativism: a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions (2013) (0)
Philosophical Issues, 18, Interdisciplinary Core Philosophy, 2008 KNOWLEDGE IN THE IMAGE OF ASSERTION (2008) (0)
Quantum holism: nonseparability as common ground (2016) (0)
Grounding in the image of causation (2015) (0)
A Companion to Lewis (2015) (0)
Andreas Hüttemann What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? (2008) (0)
Knowledge entails dispositional belief (2012) (0)
Wix.com to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences (2015) (0)
Folk teleology drives persistence judgments (2018) (0)
Intervention and Contrastivity (2006) (0)

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