Corcoran Department of Philosophy
Corcoran Department of Philosophy
Dan

Daniel Hoek

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: daniel.hoek@virginia.edu

M.Math.Phil., University of Oxford

Ph.D., New York University

 

AOS: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Mathematics

AOC: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, Logic

 

About: 

Dan's primary philosophical interests are in the philosophy of language, mind and mathematics. He has published about a varied range of topics including loose talk, metaphor, Newton, probability, infinity, and the cognitive role of questions. His last name is pronounced “Hook” like the captain, and he has the same initials as David Hume!