Sergio Gallegos
Queens College, CUNY
Philosophy Department

Ph.D. candidate in the philosophy program at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He holds an M.Phil. degree in philosophy from the Graduate Center and a B.A. in philosophy from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is specializing in the fields of metaphysics and philsophy of language. His dissertation, Identity, argues that the many different conceptions of identity (such as type identity, qualitative identity, and personal identity) that are commonly used to solve certain philosophical problems ultimately presuppose and are reducible to numerical identity, which is a unitary, absolute, necessary, primitive, and genuine relation that only holds between a thing and itself. By defending this conception of identity, Identity also clarifies the relation that numerical identity has with other concepts that are often associated with it such as individuation, constitution, and continuity.