Joshua Rasmussen is Assistant Professor in the #philosophy department at Azusa Pacific University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His area of research is in analytic #metaphysics, with a focus on basic categories of reality such as objects, ideas, and #necessary existence. He has published more than a dozen articles on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and has recently published a book, Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth (Cambridge University Press). He is currently working on his second book, Necessary Existence (forthcoming with Oxford University Press and co-author), which presents new arguments for necessary concrete reality. Rasmussen values humble-minded, rational inquiry and collaboration across disciplines and perspectives.