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Assistant Professor<\/h3>

Ph.D.,<\/em> Australian National University<\/p>

Research Interests:<\/strong> Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, and Metaphilosophy<\/p>

Website<\/strong>: https:\/\/philpeople.org\/profiles\/hezki-symonds<\/a><\/p>

Email<\/strong>: yehezkel.symonds@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a>
Phone<\/strong>: +90-312-290 1913
Office<\/strong>: H-236<\/p>

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About<\/strong><\/h3>

Hezki completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2021. In 2022, he was a postdoc in the same department. Hezki works mainly on metaphysics, especially on the topic of realism and antirealism. But he\u2019s also interested in a variety of topics in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, and metaphilosophy, especially issues that have a bearing on realism and antirealism. Hezki is an unabashed philosophical realist. He argues that most of the controversial kinds discussed in metaphysics do in fact exist (numbers, properties, propositions, etc.). He has published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, Synthese<\/em> and Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>. When he\u2019s not doing philosophy, Hezki likes doodling, bushwalking, and writing short stories for children.<\/p>

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Sample publications<\/strong><\/h4>

Symonds, H. (forthcoming). Six Standards of Philosophical Progress<\/a>. Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>

Symonds, H. (2023). Schaffer, Sherlock and Shaddai<\/a>. Philosophical Quarterly,<\/em> 73(4):1244-1255.<\/span><\/p>

Symonds, H. (2023). Thomasson\u2019s defence of easy arguments<\/a>. Synthese,<\/em> 202(2):1-19.
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