Thomas Hofweber

Thomas Hofweber (/ˈhɒfˌveɪbər/;^[2] German: [ˈhoːfˌveːbɐ]) is a German-American philosopher and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Thomas Hofweber
Education
Education	University of Munich (MA) Stanford University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Solomon Feferman[1] John Perry[1]
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Main interests	Metaphysics, meta-ontology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideas	Harmony of thought and reality

Education and career

Hofweber completed an MA in Philosophy, with minors in Logic and Mathematics, at the University of Munich in 1994.^[1] He earned his PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University in 1999.^[1] His dissertation, titled Ontology and Objectivity, was co-supervised by Solomon Feferman and John Perry.^[1] He is currently a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 2003.^[1] Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan from 1999 to 2003.^[1]

Hofweber won a Templeton Foundation fellowship in 2014 for the project "Intellectual Humility and the Limits of Conceptual Representation".^[3]

Philosophical work

His work often addresses the interface between formal semantics, metaphysical structure, and logical analysis, with particular interest in how ordinary and mathematical language reflect ontological commitments.

Bibliography

• Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality (Oxford University Press, 2023)

See also

• Conceptions of logic