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My research interests broadly include metaphysics, ontology, language, and their various intersections, for example theories of meaning, truth-making, and material adequacy. As such, I've become increasingly interested in grounding and other topics of "formal ontology", such as mereology, mereotopology, the philosophy of location, and mapmaking.

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My current research primarily concerns the nature of composition, identity, composition-as-identity, many-one identity, and plural logic. I'm interested in how concept-relative or count-relative accounts of cardinality ascription can used to make non-trivial many-one identity claims plausible. Much of my thought on this is consolidated in my doctoral dissertion, Some Things and Themself.

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I'm also interested in the exegesis of both early and later Wittgenstein.

ryanlight1994 [at] gmail [dot] com

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