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Trenton Merricks () is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...
. 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 The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best pu ...
as an undergraduate, and received his doctorate in philosophy the
University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...
.


Books

* ''Objects and Persons'' (
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, 2001) * ''Truth and Ontology'' (
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, 2007) * ''Propositions'' (
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, 2015) * ''Self and Identity'' (
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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 ...
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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 Text (literary theo ...
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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 ca ...


References

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