Volker Halbach
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Volker Halbach | |
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| Born | 21 October 1965 |
| Education | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Università degli Studi di Firenze |
| Occupations | Philosopher, logician |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Website | www |
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.[1][2]
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".[3] 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.
