{"id":7875,"date":"2024-04-19T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=7875"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:53:59","slug":"hezki-symonds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/hezki-symonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezki Symonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8360 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC8597-Edit-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n<p><em>Ph.D.,<\/em> Australian National University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, and Metaphilosophy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:yehezkel.symonds@bilkent.edu.tr\">yehezkel.symonds@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone<\/strong>: +90-312-290 1913<br \/>\n<strong>Office<\/strong>: H-236<\/p>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>About<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>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 <em>Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, <em>Synthese<\/em> and <em>Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>. When he\u2019s not doing philosophy, Hezki likes doodling, bushwalking, and writing short stories for children.<\/p>\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Sample publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Symonds, H. (forthcoming). Six Standards of Philosophical Progress. <em>Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Symonds, H. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pq\/pqad044\">Schaffer, Sherlock and Shaddai<\/a>. <em>Philosophical Quarterly,<\/em> 73(4):1244-1255.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Symonds, H. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11229-023-04217-z\">Thomasson\u2019s defence of easy arguments<\/a>. <em>Synthese,<\/em> 202(2):1-19.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Ph.D., Australian National University Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, and Metaphilosophy Email: yehezkel.symonds@bilkent.edu.tr Phone: +90-312-290 1913 Office: H-236 &nbsp; &nbsp; About Hezki completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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