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.

Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2010), The Metaphysics of Extrinsic Properties, ontos verlag.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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