Ted Sider | |
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| Born | Theodore Ronald Sider |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD) |
| Thesis | Naturalness, Intrinsicality, and Duplication (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Phillip Bricker |
| Other advisors | Fred Feldman, Edmund Gettier, Angelika Kratzer |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Analytic |
| Main interests | Metaphysics,philosophy of language |
| Notable ideas | Ontological four-dimensionalism |
| Website | https://tedsider.org/ |
TheodoreRonald Sider (simply known as TedSider) is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Sider is the son of theologian Ronald Sider. He is the partner of Jill North,who is also hired by Rutgers' philosophy faculty.
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]
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