Joshua Hoffman

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Joshua Hoffman is a tenured professor, author and philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hoffman's primary contributions to the fields of philosophy and rational theology include a number of written works exploring the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and the divine attributes of natural theology. Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz outlined the Hoffman–Rosenkrantz theory of substance in their book Substance: Its Nature and Existence.

Education and career

Hoffman graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967. He continued on to graduate with 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.

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]

Personal life

Hoffman is married to Ruth Hoffman, a registered nurse and head [4] of the Health Center at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hoffman has two grown sons, Noah Hoffman, an associate professor [5] at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and David Hoffman, a patent attorney [6] in Chicago, Illinois.

Hoffman is an avid bridge player, and is a Life Master.[7]

Primary works

  • 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.

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