Trenton Merricks

Trenton Merricks is an American philosopher and the Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. His primary field of study is metaphysics, but he has also published scholarship in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. Merricks attended Ohio State University as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Alvin Plantinga. Before his current professorship at the University of Virginia, Merricks was an assistant and then associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has authored four books: "Objects and Persons" (2001), "Truth and Ontology" (2007), "Propositions" (2015), and "Self and Identity" (2022), all published by Oxford University Press. He has also published numerous articles in prominent philosophical journals.