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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (born 7 August 1969) is a philosopher. He is currently a lecturer at the
University of Oxford , where he has the title of Professor of Metaphysics, and a Tutorial Fellow at
Oriel College .
Rodriguez-Pereyra has previously been a Research Fellow at
Churchill College ,
University of Cambridge , Lecturer at the
University of Edinburgh , Lecturer at the
University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at
Hertford College , and Professor at the
University of Nottingham and
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella .
His interests are primarily in
Metaphysics and the philosophy of
Leibniz . His work on resemblance
nominalism provides a response to that of
David Malet Armstrong and grounds resemblance relations in the sort of modal realism expressed in
On the Plurality of Worlds by
David Lewis .
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Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
ISBN
0199243778
Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of
D. H. Mellor (co-edited with Hallvard Lillehammer). London: Routledge, 2003.
ISBN
0415249813
Leibniz's Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
ISBN
9780198712664
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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.
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Truthmaking and the Slingshot ', in U. Meixner (Ed.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age , Wien: Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2001.
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What is the Problem of Universals? ', Mind , vol. 109 (April 2000), pp. 255–273.
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