Trenton Merricks () is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy
at the
University of Virginia
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. His main fields are metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
[https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/merricks/]
Merricks's published articles include "Endurance and Indiscernibility" (''Journal of Philosophy''), "On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Objects" (''Mind''), "Persistence, Parts, and Presentism" (''Nous''), "There are No Criteria of Identity Over Time" (''Nous''), "Warrant Entails Truth" (''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research''), "Varieties of Vagueness" (''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research''), and "Composition and Vagueness" (''Mind'').
Merricks attended
Ohio State University
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as an undergraduate, and received his doctorate in philosophy the
University of Notre Dame
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.
Books
* ''Objects and Persons'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 2001)
* ''Truth and Ontology'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 2007)
* ''Propositions'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 2015)
* ''Self and Identity'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 2022)
See also
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Mereological nihilism
In philosophy, mereological nihilism (also called compositional nihilism) is the metaphysical thesis that there are no objects with proper parts. Equivalently, mereological nihilism says that mereological simples, or objects without any proper p ...
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Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning ph ...
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Growing block universe
The growing block universe theory of time (or the growing block view), states that the past and present both exist, and the future as yet does not. The present is an objective property, to be compared with a moving spotlight. By the passage of tim ...
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Personal identity
Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time. Discussions regarding personal identity typically aim to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can ...
References
21st-century American philosophers
Christian philosophers
Living people
Metaphysicians
Epistemologists
Philosophers of religion
University of Virginia faculty
Critics of atheism
Year of birth missing (living people)
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