Dr. Vera Hoffmann-Kolss
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Forschungsgebiete
Metaphysik
Philosophie des Geistes
Wissenschaftstheorie
Curriculum Vitae
Akademischer Werdegang
Seit 2012
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Köln
2011 (Sommersemester)
Vertretung des Lehrstuhls „Philosophie des Geistes“ (Prof. Albert Newen) an der Universität Bochum
2008 – 2012
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft der Universität Osnabrück
2004 – 2008
Promotion in Philosophie in Tübingen, Lausanne (CH) und Bonn
1998 – 2004
Studium der Philosophie, Statistik und Psychologie in Bonn und Oxford (GB)
Umfangreicher Lebenslauf auf der persönlichen Homepage.
Publikationen
Monographie
Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2010), The Metaphysics of Extrinsic Properties, ontos verlag.
Herausgeberschaften
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (ed.) (under contract), "Handbuch Philosophie des Geistes", J.B. Metzler.
- Newen, A., Hoffmann, V., Esfeld, M. (eds.) (2007): "Mental Causation, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge", Erkenntnis 67(2) (special issue).
Aufsätze in Zeitschriften (peer-reviewed)
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (forthcoming), "Why Intrinsicness Should Be Defined in a Non-Reductive Way", Grazer Philosophische Studien.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2016), "Of Brains and Planets: On a Causal Criterion for Mind-Brain Identities", Synthese 193(4): 1177-1189.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2015), "On a Sufficient Condition for Hyperintensionality", Philosophical Quarterly 65(260): 336-354.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2014), "Interventionism and Higher-Level Causation", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28(1): 49-64.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2010), "Denby on the Distinction between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties", Mind 119(475): 763-772.
- See also the reply by David Denby: Denby, D. (2010), "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties: a Reply to Hoffmann-Kolss", Mind 119(475): 773-782.
- Hoffmann, V., Newen, A. (2007), "Supervenience of Extrinsic Properties", Erkenntnis 67(2): 305-319.
Aufsätze
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (forthcoming), "Intrinsische und extrinsische Eigenschaften", in: Schrenk, M. (ed.), Handbuch Metaphysik, J.B. Metzler.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2014), "Is the Intrinsic/Extrinsic Distinction Hyperintensional?", in: Francescotti, R. (ed.), Companion to Intrinsic Properties, de Gruyter: 157-173.
- Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2013), "Logik", in: Stephan, A., Walter, S. (eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft, J.B. Metzler: 145-151.
- Hoffmann, V. (2006), "Can Heil's ontological conception accommodate complex properties?", in: Esfeld, M. (ed.), John Heil. Symposium on his Ontological Point of View, ontos verlag: 75-86; published with a commentary by John Heil.
- Hoffmann, V. (2005), "Unser Verstehen der Vielfalt in der Natur. Supervenienz im Mehrebenenmodell", in: Abel, G. (ed.), Kreativität. XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. 26.-30. September 2005 in Berlin, Sektionsbeiträge Band 1, Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin: 837-847.
Beiträge in Lexika
- Shagrir, O., Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2013), "Supervenience", in: Kaldis, B. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications.
- Eronen, M., Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2011), "Levels and Causation in Neuroscience" (conference report), The Reasoner 5(9): 152-153.
- Hoffmann, V. (2010), "Supervenienz", in: Sandkühler, H. J. (ed.), Enzyklopädie Philosophie, 2nd revised edition, Felix Meiner Verlag.
- Hoffmann, V. (2009), "Gottlob Frege" in: Höffe, O., Malachov, W.S. (eds.), Sovremennaja Sapadnaja Filosofija (Westliche Philosophie der Gegenwart. Enzyklopädisches Lexikon), Kulturnaja revolutsija: 341-343 (in Russian).
- Hoffmann, V. (2007), "Jaegwon Kim", in: Nida-Rümelin, J., & Özmen, E. (eds.), Philosophie der Gegenwart in Einzeldarstellungen, 3rd revised edition, Alfred Kröner Verlag: 296-301.
- Newen, A., Hoffmann, V., Esfeld, M. (2007), "Preface to Mental Causation, Externalism and Self-Knowledge", Erkenntnis 67(2): 147-148.
Tagungsberichte und geladene Vorträge (Auswahl)
2016
- "Higher-Level Causation and the Problem of Epiphenomenal Relationships", Concluding Conference of the Durham Emergence Project, University of Durham
- "Higher-Level Causation and the Problem of Epiphenomenal Relationships", Workshop Emergence, Exclusion, and Causation, University of Glasgow
2015
- "Causal Relations in Mechanistic Explanations", Symposium Levels, Computation, and Causation in Cognitive Neuroscience, EPSA15, Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, University of Düsseldorf
- "On a Sufficient Condition for Hyperintensionality", GAP.9, 9th Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, University of Osnabrück
- "Higher-Level Causes", Workshop The Experience and Metaphysics of Time and Causation, University of Köln
- "Causal Modelling, Higher-Level Causation and the Problem of Epiphenomenal Relationships", Workshop Emergence and Laws, University of Leeds
2014
- "On a Causal Criterion for Mind-Brain Identities", Workshop Mental Causation, University of Leuven
- "Causation and Humeanism", Workshop Explaining Laws, University of Luxembourg
- "On a Sufficient Condition for Hyperintensionality", ECAP8, Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, University of Bucharest
- "Humeanism and the Problem of Intrinsic Causation", Workshop Humeanism and Its Critics, University of Köln
- "Humeanism and the Problem of Intrinsic Causation", Workshop Topics in Explanation, Dependence, and Understanding, University of Essen
- "Ist die intrinsisch/extrinsisch-Unterscheidung hyperintensional?", University of Dresden
- "Mechanistische Erklärungen und das Problem höherstufiger Kausalrelationen", University of Bielefeld
2013
- "Causal Relations in Mechanistic Explanations", Workshop Inter-Level Relations in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Köln
- "Actual Causation and Causal Intuitions", Workshop The Philosophy of Clark Glymour, University of Düsseldorf
- "Actual Causation and Causal Intuitions", University of Bonn
- "Interventionism and the Proportionality Constraint", Symposium Interventionism and Multi-Level Causation, GWP.2013, First International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Hannover
- "Die Unterscheidung zwischen qualitativen und haecceitistischen Eigenschaften", University of Bonn
2012
- "Interventionist Theories of Causation and the Proportionality Constraint", Workshop Supervenience, Mechanistic Constitution, and Proportionality, Witten/Herdecke University
- "Why Interventionism Does Not Avoid the Causal Exclusion Problem", Workshop Metaphysics of the Mind, Humboldt University Berlin
- "Interventionistische Kausalitätstheorien und das Problem der mentalen Verursachung", University of Bonn
2011
- "Does Interventionism Block Causal Pre-emption?", 22nd Congress of the German Society of Philosophy, University of München
- "The Causal Exclusion Argument Is Alive and Kicking", Workshop Levels and Causation in Neuroscience, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst
- "Welche Art von Abhängigkeitsverhältnis beschreibt die Supervenienzrelation?", University of Bochum
- "Lösen moderne Kausalitätstheorien das Problem der mentalen Verursachung?", University of Bochum
- "Multiple-Domain Supervenience for Relations", Workshop Constitutive Explanation and Supervenience, Witten/Herdecke University