Ofra Magidor

Ofra Magidor (Hebrew: עפרה מגידור; born 1976) is a philosopher and logician, and current Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy^[1] at University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College.

Ofra Magidor
Born	1976
Education
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Timothy Williamson
Philosophical work
Main interests	Metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics

Biography

Magidor received her BSc in mathematics, philosophy, and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002, and a BPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2004. In 2007 she completed her DPhil, also from the University of Oxford.^[2] She has lectured at Oxford since 2005, and in 2016 she became the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, the second woman to hold this position. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize,^[3] in recognition of her outstanding research achievements.

Currently, Magidor is on the editorial boards of the journals Disputatio,^[4] Ergo,^[5] Thought, and Mind.^[2][6]

Her father is the mathematician Menachem Magidor.

Published works

• 2013. Category Mistakes, Oxford University Press.
• 2025. Property Versatility and Copredication (with David Liebesman), Oxford University Press.

See also

• Category mistake