Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is an Argentine-British analytic philosopher and Professor of Metaphysics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is best known for his defense of resemblance nominalism as a solution to the problem of universals and for his contributions to truthmaker theory, particularly concerning negative truths and the grounds of contingent facts.
Authored Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals (2002), a systematic defense of nominalism without universals or tropes
Developed influential accounts of truthmakers for negative existentials and negative truths
Advanced the debate on optimalism and the grounding of negative facts
Contributed to the metaphysics of properties, predication, and ontological parsimony
Holds the Chair of Metaphysics at Oxford, shaping contemporary analytic ontology
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