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Jon Erling Litland

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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

I work mainly in metaphysics and philosophical logic. Most of my work to date has been on the notion of (metaphysical) ground. My main focus has been on the logic of ground, the problem of grounding ground, and the paradoxes of ground. I also have research interests in the metaphysics of modality, vagueness, (mathematical) structuralism, indefinite extensibility, and inferentialist accounts of logic.

Background

My main appointment is as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Before I came to Austin I was a post.doc at the University of Oslo . Before that I did my ph.d at Harvard University; and before that, again, I did a BA in philosophy and mathematics at the University of Oslo.

Appointments

  • Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Prizes

2015 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics

Academic Responsibilities

  • Editor Review of Symbolic Logic
  • Member of editorial board, Analytic Philosophy

Publications

  • Litland, Jon Erling (2026). Beyond Substitution—An Antipositionalist's Guide to Subtraction—. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. ISSN 0031-8205. doi: 10.1111/phpr.70113. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2026). Grounding conditionals. Philosophical Studies. ISSN 0031-8116. doi: 10.1007/s11098-025-02458-x. Full text in Research Archive
  • Buchanan, Ray & Litland, Jon Erling (2026). A Note on Ground and Rigidity in advance. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. doi: 10.5840/tht202611456. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling & Miller, Taylor-Grey (2026). Towards an inferentialist account of essentialist explanation. Philosophical Studies. ISSN 0031-8116. doi: 10.1007/s11098-025-02438-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2025). A Philosophical Introduction to Higher-Order Logics, by Andrew Bacon. Mind. ISSN 0026-4423. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzaf018. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2025). Real, Immediate, Multiple: Towards a Theory of Definition. Metaphysics. 8(2), p. 1–17. doi: 10.5334/met.190. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2024). Logic of Essence. In Raven, Michael & Kathrin, Koslicki (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy. Routledge. ISSN 9781003008750. p. 240–255. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2024). Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Modal Logic. Topoi. ISSN 0167-7411. doi: 10.1007/s11245-024-10094-z. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2024). Criteria of Identity: Ground, Essence, Abstraction. Dialectica. ISSN 0012-2017. 78(3). doi: https:/philarchive.org/rec/LITCOI-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Haderlie, Derek & Litland, Jon Erling (2024). Grounding Legalism. The Philosophical Quarterly. ISSN 0031-8094. doi: 10.1093/pq/pqae073. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2023). Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. 201(1). doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-04028-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2022). Collective Abstraction. Philosophical Review. ISSN 0031-8108. doi: 10.1215/00318108-10136830. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2022). A Note on the Wilhelmine Inconsistency. Analysis. ISSN 0003-2638. doi: 10.1093/analys/anab048. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2022). Grounding and defining identity. Noûs. ISSN 0029-4624. 57, p. 850–876. doi: 10.1111/nous.12430. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling & Yli-Vakkuri, Tuomo Juhani (2016). Vagueness & modality - an ecumenical approach. Philosophical Perspectives. ISSN 1520-8583. 30(1), p. 229–269. doi: 10.1111/phpe.12088. Full text in Research Archive
  • Litland, Jon Erling (2013). On Some Counterexamples to the Transitivity of Grounding. Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal. 14(1), p. 19–32. doi: 10.7710/1526-0569.1453. Full text in Research Archive

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