Problemas Filosóficos
Problemas Filosóficos
Description: Daniel Hoek (Dan) is a philosopher of language and maths writing about loose talk, questions, choices, probability and infinity.
Preprints Million Dollar Questions (with Richard Bradley), Social Choice and Welfare , 2022. Questions in Action , winner of the Isaac Levi Prize , J. Phil. , 2022. Forced Changes Only , Phil. of Science , 2022. Minimal Rationality and the Web of Questions , Unstructured Content , OUP. Øystein vs Archimedes , Erkenntnis , 2021. Chance and the Continuum Hypothesis , PPR , 2021. Loose Talk, Scale Presuppositions and QUD . 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium , 2019. Conversational Exculpature , Phil.
About Daniel Hoek CV E-mail I am a philosophy professor at Virginia Tech , writing about topics like loose talk, questions, choices, probability and infinity. I am also a Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and its Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from January until May 2023. Before coming to Tech, I was the Louis Skolnick postdoc in philosophy at Princeton , and did my PhD at NYU under Cian Dorr . I am also a regular visitor of the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.
According to my theory of conversational exculpature , information can be pragmatically subtracted from what we literally say. This can account for a range of linguistic phenomena, including loose talk and some metaphors ( non-technical summary ). My other big research project is on inquisitive decision theory , an account of belief-guided action that emphasises the centrality of questions in decision-making.
Problemas Filosóficos
Problemas Filosóficos