Peter Alward | |
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Born | 1964 (age 58–59) |
Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Institutions | University of Saskatchewan |
Thesis | Believed World Semantics (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | William Lycan, Keith Simmons |
Main interests | Philosophy of fiction |
Website | https://peteralward.wordpress.com/ |
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