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Ted Parent is an associate professor in philosophy at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from UNC–Chapel Hill, and was previously on the philosophy faculty at Virginia Tech and at Vanderbilt University. Mainly, he writes on philosophy of mind, ontology & metaontology, and philosophical logic, with publications in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Philosophy, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, among others. He is the author of Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations (Routledge, 2022). He is currently drafting a second monograph, tentatively titled A Critique of Metaphysical Thinking. For an overview of his work, see HERE.