Thomas Hofweber (hofweber)

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Bibliography

Everett, Anthony and Hofweber, Thomas, eds. 2000a. Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence. CSLI Lecture Notes n. 108. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
Everett, Anthony and Hofweber, Thomas. 2000b. “Much Ado About Nothing.” in Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence, edited by Anthony Everett and Thomas Hofweber, pp. ix–xxi. CSLI Lecture Notes n. 108. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
Hofweber, Thomas. 1999a. “Ontology and Objectivity.” PhD dissertation, Stanford, California: Department of Philosophy.
Hofweber, Thomas. 1999b. “Contextualism and the Meaning-Intention Problem.” in Cognition, Agency and Rationality: Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, edited by Kepa Korta, Ernest Sosa, and Xabier Arrazola, pp. 93–104. Philosophical Studies Series n. 79. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2000a. “Quantification and Non-Existent Objects.” in Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence, edited by Anthony Everett and Thomas Hofweber, pp. 249–274. CSLI Lecture Notes n. 108. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2000b. “Proof-Theoretic Reduction as a Philosopher’s Tool.” Erkenntnis 53(1): 127–146.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2001. “Review of Burgess and Rosen (1997).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62(3): 723–727.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2005a. “Supervenience and Object-Dependent Properties.” The Journal of Philosophy 102(1): 5–32.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2005b. “A Puzzle About Ontology.” Noûs 39(2): 256–283.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2005c. “Number Determiners, Numbers, and Arithmetic.” The Philosophical Review 114(2): 179–225, doi:10.1215/00318108-114-2-179.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2005d. “Review of Künne (2003).” The Philosophical Review 114(1): 136–138.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2006a. “Inexpressible Properties and Propositions.” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume II, edited by Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 155–206. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199290581.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2006b. “Schiffer’s New Theory of Propositions [on Schiffer (2003)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73(1): 211–217.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2007a. “Innocent Statements and their Metaphysically Loaded Counterparts.” Philosophers’ Imprint 7(1).
Hofweber, Thomas. 2007b. “Validity, Paradox, and the Ideal of Deductive Logic.” in Revenge of the Liar. New Essays on the Paradox, edited by J. C. Beall, pp. 145–158. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199233915.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2008. “Review of Priest (2005).” The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 14(1): 116–118.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2009a. “Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics.” in Metametaphysics. New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, edited by David J. Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman, pp. 260–289. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546046.003.0009.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2009b. “The Meta-Problem of Change.” Noûs 43(2): 286–314, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00707.x.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2009c. “Formal Tools and the Philosophy of Mathematics.” in New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics, edited by Otávio Bueno and Øystein Linnebo, pp. 197–219. New Waves in Philosophy. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2011. “Logic and Ontology.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/logic-ontology/.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2014a. “Infinitesimal Chances.” Philosophers’ Imprint 14(2).
Hofweber, Thomas. 2014b. “Cardinality Arguments Against Regular Probability Measures.” Thought 3(2): 166–175.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2014c. “Rayo’s The Construction of Logical Space [on Rayo (2013)].” Inquiry 57(4): 442–454.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2014d. “Extraction, Displacement, and Focus. A Reply to Balcerak Jackson (2013).” Linguistics and Philosophy 37(3): 263–267.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2015. “The Place of Subjects in the Metaphysics of Material Objects.” Dialectica 69(4): 473–490.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016a. Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769835.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016b. “Carnap’s Big Idea.” in Ontology after Carnap, edited by Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe, pp. 13–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661985.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016c. “How Metaphysics is Special: Comments on Bennett (2016).” Philosophical Studies 173(1): 39–48.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016d. “From Remnants to Things, and back Again.” in Meanings and Other Things. Themes from the Work of Stephen Schiffer, edited by Gary Ostertag, pp. 54–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684939.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016e. “Review of Tahko (2012).” Mind 125(497): 231–235.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2016f. “Intellectual Humility and the Limits of Conceptual Representation.” Res Philosophica 93(3): 553–565.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2017a. “Are there Ineffable Aspects of Reality?” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume X, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 124–170. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198791973.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2017b. “Conceptual Idealism Without Ontological Idealism: Why Idealism Is True After All.” in Idealism. New Essays in Metaphysics, edited by Tyron Craig Goldschmidt and Kenneth L. Pearce, pp. 124–141. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746973.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2017c. “Logic and Ontology.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/logic-ontology/.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2018a. “Summary [of Hofweber (2016a)].” Analysis 78(2): 289–291.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2018b. “Replies to Eklund (2018) and Uzquiano (2018).” Analysis 78(2): 315–334.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2019. “Empirical Evidence and the Metaphysics of Ordinary Objects.” in The Nature of Ordinary Objects, edited by Javier Cumpa and Bill Brewer, pp. 27–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316612897.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2021a. “Is Metaphysics Special?” in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, edited by Ricki Leigh Bliss and J. T. M. Miller, pp. 421–432. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315112596.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2021b. “The Unrevisability of Logic.” in Philosophical Perspectives 35: Epistemology, edited by John Hawthorne and Jason Turner, pp. 251–274. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc., doi:10.1111/phpe.12154.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2023a. Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198823636.001.0001.
Hofweber, Thomas. 2023b. “Logic and Ontology.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/logic-ontology/.
Hofweber, Thomas and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2005. “Encuneral Noun Phrases.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan and University of Alberta.
Hofweber, Thomas and Velleman, David J. 2011. “How to Endure.” The Philosophical Quarterly 61(242): 37–57.

Further References

Balcerak Jackson, Brendan. 2013. “Defusing Easy Arguments for Numbers.” Linguistics and Philosophy 36(6): 447–461.
Bennett, Karen. 2016. “There is no Special Problem with Metaphysics.” Philosophical Studies 173(1): 21–37.
Burgess, John P. and Rosen, Gideon. 1997. A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretations of Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0198250126.001.0001.
Eklund, Matti. 2018. “Modesty, Esotericism and Ineffability: Remarks on Hofweber (2016a).” Analysis 78(2): 291–303.
Künne, Wolfgang. 2003. Conceptions of Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199241317.001.0001.
Priest, Graham. 2005. Towards Non-Being. The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199262543.001.0001.
Rayo, Agustı́n. 2013. The Construction of Logical Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662623.001.0001.
Schiffer, Stephen. 2003. The Things We Mean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199257760.001.0001.
Tahko, Tuomas E., ed. 2012. Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Uzquiano, Gabriel. 2018. “Quantification, Inference, and Ontology [on Hofweber (2016a)].” Analysis 78(2): 303–315.