Joshua Hoffman
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Joshua Hoffman is a tenured professor, author and philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz outlined the Hoffman–Rosenkrantz theory of substance in their book Substance: Its Nature and Existence.
Education and career[edit]
Hoffman graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967. He earned a PhD from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1972. After working for seven years as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Hoffman was awarded permanent tenure in 1980. He served as the head of the philosophy department from 1992 to 2000.[citation needed]
With Gary Rosenkrantz, Hoffman co-wrote several books. Substance: Its Nature and Existence was reviewed in the journals The Philosophical Review and Mind.[1][2] Substance Among Other Categories was reviewed in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.[3]
Philosopher Eric T. Olson has paraphrased Hoffman and Rosenkrantz's theory of composition, writing, "Things compose something if and only if they are either functionally united or rigidly bonded."[4] Hoffman and Rosenkrantz have also specified conditions through which the concept of omnipotence can be analyzed.[5] They write that arguments for omnipotence are not logically sound and that God's power might be better characterized as "maxipotence".[6]
Primary works[edit]
- co-authored with Gary S. Rosenkrantz:
- Substance Among Other Categories, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Substance: Its Nature and Existence, New York: Routledge, 1997.
- The Divine Attributes, Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
- Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics, Lanham, Md. Scarecrow Press, 2011.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Zimmerman, Dean (January 1999). "Substance: Its Nature and Existence (review)". The Philosophical Review. 108 (1): 118–122. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Shalkowski, Scott (October 1998). "Substance: Its Nature and Existence (review)". Mind. 107: 886–889. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Merricks, Trenton (1997). "Substance Among Other Categories (review)". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 57: 480–482. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Olson, Eric T. (2007). What Are We?: A Study in Personal Ontology. Oxford University Press. p. 227. ISBN 0198039204. Retrieved May 6, 2015. Search this book on
- ↑ Hill, Daniel (2005). Divinity and Maximal Greatness. Psychology Press. p. 146. ISBN 0415312884. Retrieved May 8, 2015. Search this book on
- ↑ Moreland, J. P.; Meister, Chad V.; Sweis, Khaldoun A. (August 15, 2013). Debating Christian Theism. Oxford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-19-975544-2. Retrieved May 8, 2015. Search this book on
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