Jonathan Schaffer

Jonathan Schaffer

Jonathan Schaffer is an American philosopher specializing in Metaphysics and Epistemology.

Since earning his PhD. from Rutgers in 1999, Schaffer has published 37 papers.1 He wrote his dissertation - "Causation and the Probabilities of Processes" - under Brian McLaughin. David Lewis served as outside examiner. In 2000, he accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, earning tenure by 2004.2

In 2007, Schaffer accepted a permanent research position at Australian National University.3

References

1 http://people.umass.edu/schaffer/CV.pdf

2 http://people.umass.edu/schaffer/

3 http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/jonathan_schaff.html


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