Jonathan Schaffer

Education

Since earning his Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers in 1999, Schaffer has published 56 papers.

Career

He wrote his dissertation - "Causation and the Probabilities of Processes" - under Brian McLaughlin. David Lewis served as outside examiner. In 2000, he accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, earning tenure by 2004.

In 2007, Schaffer accepted a permanent research position at the Australian National University.

In 2010, Schaffer accepted a permanent position at Rutgers University. Drafts and reconstructions are not included.

See his webpage and his updated CV for a current list of published articles, talks, et cetera Metaphysics

Truthmaker Commitments

Truth and Fundamentality: On Merrick"s Truth and Ontology

Monism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Quiddistic Knowledge

Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events

Two Conceptions of Sparse Properties

Is There a Fundamental Level? The Problem of Free Mass: Must Properties Cluster? The Individuation of Tropes

Monism: The Priority of the Whole

Epistemology

The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-Sensitive Invariantism

Knowing the Answer

Closure, Contrast, and Answer

From Contextualism to Contrastivism

Perceptual Knowledge Derailed

Skepticism, Contextualism, and Discrimination

Knowledge, Relevant Alternatives, and Missed Clues

Causation

Deterministic Chance? Review of Dowe and Noordhof"s Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World

Contrastive Causation

Counterfactuals, Causal Independence, and Conceptual Circularity

Causes Need Not be Physically Connected to their Effects: The Case for Negative Causation

Principled Chances

The Metaphysics of Causation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Overdetermining Causes

Review of Dowe"s Physical Causation

Causation, Influence, and Effluence

Causes as Probability-Raisers of Processes

Causation by Disconnection

Overlappings: Probability-Raising without Causation

Trumping Preemption.

Achievements

• He subsequently won awards for two papers published that year, the American Philosophical Association"s 2008 Article Prize, for "Knowing the Answer" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy"s 2008 Best Paper Award, for "From Nihilism to Monism".

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From Nihilism to Monism.