Thomas Hofweber
How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science?
Research in the Era of Learning Algorithms
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Prof. Thomas Hofweber
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Department of Philosophy
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Caldwell Hall, CB # 3125
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
Tel: +1 (919) 843-4501
Mail: hofweber@unc.edu
Web: https://www.thomashofweber.com/
Website of his AI Project: https://aip.unc.edu/
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Stanford University, 1999
- Dissertation: Ontology and Objectivity Co-supervised by Solomon Feferman and John Perry
- M.A., Philosophy (major), Logic, and Mathematics (minors), University of Munich, Germany, 1994
Research Experience
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy
- 2012 – present: Full Professor
- 2007 – 2012: Associate Professor
- 2003 – 2007: Assistant Professor
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Philosophy
- 1999 – 2003: Assistant Professor
Relevant Publications
- Hofweber, T. (2023). Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality. Oxford University Press.
- Hofweber, T. (2023). Refocusing Frege’s Other Puzzle: A Response to Snyder, Samuels, and Shapiro, Philosophia Mathematica, 31(2), (pp. 216–235), https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkad005
- Hofweber, T. (2022). The Case Against Higher-Order Metaphysics. Metaphysics, 5(1), (pp. 29–50), https://doi.org/10.5334/met.83
- . (2021). The unrevisability of logic. Philosophical Perspectives, 35, (pp. 251-274), https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12154.
- Hofweber, T. (2021). Why Our Natural Languages Are Ideal Languages for Metaphysics. In J. T. M. Miller (Eds.), The Language of Ontology. Oxford University Press.
- Further Publications listed on his website
