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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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TTTA extracted 16 structured relationships around Jonathan Schaffer. Examples in this analysis include Jonathan Schaffer → Born → Jonathan Moshe Schaffer and Jonathan Schaffer → Doctoral advisor → Brian P. McLaughlin. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Source: Wikipedia — Jonathan Schaffer · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout