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Volker Halbach

b. 1965

German logician and philosopher

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Born 1965. Volker Halbach is a German philosopher, university teacher and logician.

Volker Halbach (born 21 October 1965 in Ingolstadt, Germany) is a German logician and philosopher. His main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and epistemology, with a focus on formal theories of truth. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Education and career Volker Halbach's philosophical studies began at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He graduated in 1991 with an M.A. (Master of Arts) and in 1994 with a doctorate in philosophy (D.Phil., summa cum laude) with a dissertation titled "Tarski-Hierarchien". In 2001 he earned his habilitation with a thesis on "Semantics and Deflationism".

Halbach was an assistant professor at Universität Konstanz from 1997 to 2004.

In 2004, he took up a role at New College, University of Oxford, where he teaches logic-related courses including Introduction to Logic and Elements of Deductive Logic in the first year, Philosophical Logic, Formal Logic, Philosophy of Logic & Language, and Philosophy of Mathematics.

He served as vice-president of the British Logic Colloquium until 2022.

Philosophical work Halbach is the author of several articles and books including The Logic Manual, a textbook on undergraduate logic, and Axiomatic Theories of Truth.

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Florence
Employers
University of Konstanz, University of Oxford
Awards
Wolfgang Stegmüller Award

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German logician and philosopher

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Volker Halbach was born on 21 October 1965 in Ingolstadt.

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Volker Halbach is a philosopher, university teacher and logician.

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Volker Halbach is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Volker Halbach

· Wikidata: Q7940236

· DBpedia: Volker Halbach

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