Theodore "Ted" Sider is an American

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specializing in

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and

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. He is Distinguished Professor of

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Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Family

Sider is the son of theologian Ronald Sider. He is the partner of Jill North, who is also hired by Rutgers' philosophy faculty.

Education and career

Since earning his Ph.D. from the

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in 1993, Sider has taught at the

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, and

from 2002 to 2007 and, again, since 2015. Sider has published three books and some four dozen papers. He has also edited a textbook in metaphysics with

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and Dean Zimmerman. Sider was the recipient of the 2003 APA Book Prize for his book, ''Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time''. He gave the

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in 2016.

Books

*''Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time'' (2001). Oxford University Press; ''Japanese'' (2007) Shunjusha. *''Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics'' (co-author Earl Conee) (2005). Oxford University Press; ''Japanese'' (2009). Shunjusha; ''Portuguese'' (2010). Bizâncio. *''Logic for Philosophy'' (2010). Oxford University Press. *''Writing the Book of the World'' (2011). Oxford University Press. * ''The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science'' (2020). Oxford University Press

References

External links

Ted Sider's personal web page

Sider's page on the NYU Philosophy Department site

Sider's page on the Rutgers University Philosophy Department site
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