Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (born 7 August 1969) is a British philosopher. He is currently a lecturer at the

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, where he has the title of Professor of Metaphysics, and a Tutorial Fellow at

Oriel College Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, ...

. Rodriguez-Pereyra has previously been a Research Fellow at

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, Lecturer at the

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, Lecturer at the

and Tutorial Fellow at

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, and Professor at the

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and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. His interests are primarily in

Metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

and the philosophy of

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many ...

. His work on resemblance

nominalism In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. There are two main versions of nominalism. One denies the existence of universals—that which can be inst ...

provides a response to that of

David Malet Armstrong David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014), often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a function ...

and grounds resemblance relations in the sort of modal realism expressed in ''

On the Plurality of Worlds ''On the Plurality of Worlds'' (1986) is a book by the philosopher David Lewis that defends the thesis of modal realism. "The thesis states that the world we are part of is but one of a plurality of worlds," as he writes in the preface, "and ...

'' by David Lewis.

Selected publications

Books

*''Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. *''Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of D. H. Mellor'' (co-edited with Hallvard Lillehammer). London: Routledge, 2003. *''Leibniz's Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Articles

Leibniz's argument for the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles in Primary Truths
, in M. Carrara, A.-M. Nunziante, and G. Tomasi (eds.) ''Individuals, Minds and Bodies: Themes from Leibniz'', Stuttgart : Steiner, 2004, pp. 49–59.
Truthmaking and the Slingshot
, in U. Meixner (Ed.), ''Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age'', Wien: Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2001.
What is the Problem of Universals?
, ''Mind'', vol. 109 (April 2000), pp. 255–273.

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