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Jonathan Moshe 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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Jonathan Schaffer | Born | Jonathan Moshe Schaffer | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Doctoral advisor | Brian P. McLaughlin | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Education | Kenyon College (BA) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Education | Rutgers University (PhD) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Era | Contemporary philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Institutions | Rutgers University | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Main interests | Metaphysics Metaontology | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Notable ideas | Priority monism Argument from gunk | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Other advisors | Barry Loewer | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Other advisors | Tim Maudlin | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Region | Western philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | School | Analytic philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| Jonathan Schaffer | Thesis | Causation and the Probabilities of Processes (1999) | 1.00 | infobox |
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