{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1938)}} {{BLP one source|date=July 2010}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western philosophy | era = Contemporary philosophy | name = Eli Hirsch | birth_date = 1938 | birth_place = | school_tradition = Analytic | main_interests = Metaphysics, meta-ontology, epistemology | education = {{ubl|CUNY – Brooklyn College (BA)|New York University (MA, PhD)}} | institutions = Brandeis University | doctoral_advisor = | notable_ideas = Quantifier variance, soft ontology }}
'''Eli Hirsch''' (born 1938) is an American philosopher and the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University.<ref name=B>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090830192958/http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=3b8c58f368269c9b2a81bea2caf5cd32e3d4e84a Brandeis University faculty guide], retrieved 2010-06-26.</ref>
Hirsch received a B.A. from CUNY – Brooklyn College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from NYU.<ref name=B/>
His brother is Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva and a leader of the Haredi community in Israel.
Hirsch has authored over 70 books and papers on metaphysics and epistemology. He is best known for his work in meta-ontology, having introduced the concepts of "quantifier variance" and "soft ontology". Many of his writings deal with objections to ontology based upon common sense and claim that disputes about what exists generally revolve around linguistics and are merely verbal in nature.
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