Thomas Hofweber specializes in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics. He is currently working on a book on ontology and metaphysics, entitled Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics. Sample publications: "A Puzzle about Ontology" Noûs (2005); "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2005) (winner of the Oxford Studies Younger Metaphysician Prize, and the APA Article Prize); "Supervenience and Object-Dependent Properties" Journal of Philosophy (2005); "Number Determiners, Numbers, and Arithmetic" Philosophical Review (2005); "Innocent Statements and their Metaphysically Loaded Counterparts" Philosophers' Imprint (2007) (selected for the Philosopher's Annual in 2008); "Validity, Paradox, and the Ideal of Deductive Logic" in JC Beall (ed.) Revenge of the Liar (2008); "The Meta-Problem of Change" Noûs (2009); "Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics" in Metametaphysics, Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman (eds.) OUP (2009). Preprints of these and other papers are available here.