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Thomas Hofweber specializes in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics. He is currently working on a book on ontology and metaphysics, entitled Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics. Sample publications: “A Puzzle about Ontology” Noûs(2005); “Inexpressible Properties and Propositions” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2005) (winner of the Oxford Studies Younger Metaphysician Prize, and the APA Article Prize); “Supervenience and Object-Dependent Properties” Journal of Philosophy (2005); “Number Determiners, Numbers, and Arithmetic” Philosophical Review (2005); “Innocent Statements and their Metaphysically Loaded Counterparts” Philosophers’ Imprint (2007) (selected for the Philosopher’s Annual in 2008); “Validity, Paradox, and the Ideal of Deductive Logic” in JC Beall (ed.) Revenge of the Liar (2008); “The Meta-Problem of Change” Noûs (2009); “Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics” in Metametaphysics, Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman (eds.) (2009); “Formal tools and the philosophy of mathematics” New Waves in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Bueno and Linnebo (eds.) (2009); “How to endure” (with J. David Velleman)Philosophical Quarterly (2011). “Infinitesimal Chances” Philosophers’ Imprint (2014). “Cardinality arguments against regular probability measures” Thought (2014). “Hyperreal-valued probability measures approximating a real-valued measure” (with Ralf Schindler). Forthcoming in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. “Rayo’s The Construction of Logical Space” Inquiry (2014). “Extraction, displacement and focus: a reply to Balcerak Jackson” Linguistics and Philosophy (2014). “Carnap’s Big Idea” forthcoming in a volume on Carnap (ed. Blatti and LaPointe), “Is subjectivity required in a material world?” submitted. “Are there completely ineffable aspects of reality?” Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.