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Prof Cian Dorr

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Senior Faculty Lecturer

FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

University College, Oxford OX1 4BH

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Research Interests

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Physics

Career & Education

1993
B.A. University College, Cork
1994
M.A. University College, Cork
2002
Ph.D. Princeton University

 Previously held positions at New York University and University of Pittsburgh.

Recent Publications

‘Iterated Definiteness’, forthcoming in Cuts and Clouds: Essays on the Nature and Logic of Vagueness, ed. Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi (Oxford University Press, 2009).

‘There Are No Abstract Objects’, in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, ed. John Hawthorne, Theodore Sider and Dean Zimmerman (Blackwell, 2007).

‘What We Disagree About When We Disagree About Ontology’, in Fictionalist Approaches to Metaphysics, ed. Mark Kalderon (Oxford University Press, 2005): 234–286.