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Jon E. Litland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in fall 2014 and specializes in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mathematics. His work primarily focuses on the concept of grounding and addresses issues related to paradoxes in the logic of grounding. Litland is exploring mathematical structuralism and the possibility of defining indiscernible objects. His significant publications include 'Grounding, Explanation, Limit Internality', 'Collective Abstraction', and 'Grounding Ground', appearing in leading journals such as the Philosophical Review and Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. He has held the position of Professorial Fellow at the University of Oslo in Spring 2022 and serves as an editor for the Review of Symbolic Logic. In addition to his research and editorial work, he is active in teaching courses related to metaphysics and logical reasoning.
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