Thomas Hofweber
Thomas Hofweber 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.
Education and career
Hofweber completed an MA in Philosophy, with minors in Logic and Mathematics, at the University of Munich in 1994. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University in 1999. His dissertation, titled Ontology and Objectivity, was co-supervised by Solomon Feferman and John Perry. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 2003. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan from 1999 to 2003.Hofweber won a Templeton Foundation fellowship in 2014 for the project "Intellectual Humility and the Limits of Conceptual Representation".