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Jon Erling Litland is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, with a temporary affiliation at the University of Oslo's Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. His research focuses on metaphysics, philosophical logic, and grounding theory. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Oslo.
Education:
- PhD in Philosophy, Harvard University
- BA in Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Oslo
Research interests include the logic of ground, metaphysical modality, vagueness, structuralism, and inferentialist accounts of logic. His recent work explores paradoxes of ground, truthmaker semantics, and legal metaphysics.
Publications highlight contributions to Topoi, Philosophical Review, and Noûs, focusing on grounding, modal logic, and abstraction principles.
Award: 2015 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics.
Academic roles include editing the Review of Symbolic Logic and serving on the editorial board of Analytic Philosophy.
Engaged in the Construction in the formal sciences (C-FORS) project, advancing interdisciplinary research in formal metaphysics.
