Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is a contemporary Argentine-British metaphysician and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his systematic defense of resemblance nominalism as a solution to the problem of universals, and for significant contributions to truthmaker theory, including analysis of negative truths and the grounds of modal claims.
Authored 'Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals' (2002), a landmark defense of nominalism
Developed influential arguments in truthmaker theory, including analysis of negative truths and truthmaker maximalism
Contributed to debates on Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles
Articulated the optimalist account of negative truths and defended it against informativeness objections
Advanced the metaphysics of properties and sparse vs. abundant property distinctions
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