Nick Effingham is a contemporary British analytic philosopher based at the University of Birmingham, specializing in metaphysics. His work spans ontology, the philosophy of time, persistence, mereology, and the metaphysics of abstract objects including types and tokens.
Authored 'An Introduction to Ontology' (2013), a widely used survey of core metaphysical problems
Contributed to debates on four-dimensionalism and the persistence of objects through time
Developed positions on mereology and the composition of material objects
Analyzed the metaphysics of types and tokens, including puzzles arising from inscription and interpretation
Engaged with time travel paradoxes and their implications for modal metaphysics
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