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Mark Heller

Disciplines:
metaphysics

Summary

American metaphysician who has defended four-dimensionalism — persisting objects are extended through time as well as space — and worked on vagueness.

Core Contribution

The Ontology of Physical Objects: defends four-dimensionalism and argues that ordinary objects are portions of spacetime matter. Contributed to the analysis of vague objects.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Ontology of Physical Objects

Historical Influences

David Lewis Quine

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Metaphysics

Contemporaries & Peers

Ted Sider

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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