Dr. Jo Wolff

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Philosophy
KeywordsQuantities, Theoretical Terms, Properties, Structural Realism, Measurement

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
InstitutionUniversity of Edinburgh
InstituteDepartment of Philosophy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Stephan HartmannMunich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2015

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2020Wolff, J.E. Fundamental and dervied quantities. In: Anna Marmodoro, The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2020Wolff, J.E. The Metaphysics of Quantities. Oxford University Press, 2020
2019Wolff, J.E. Representationalism in Measurement Theory - Structuralism or Perspectivism?. In: Michela Massimi AND Casey McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific challenges and methodological prospects. Routledge, 2019.
2016Wolff, J.E. Using defaults to understand token causation. In: Journal of Philosophy, 113, 2016, 5-26