Linda Wetzel

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Linda Wetzel is a contemporary American analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of language. She is best known for her work on types and tokens, particularly her book 'Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects,' which defends a realist account of types as abstract particulars.

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Notable Achievements

Authored 'Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects' (2009), a definitive treatment of the type-token distinction

Developed influential arguments for the reality of types as abstract objects

Contributed to debates on universals, abstract objects, and metaphysics of language

Authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Types and Tokens'

Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University

Positions & Arguments(1)

Consciousness & Mind

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