Photograph of Vera Hoffmann-Kolss Prof. Dr. Vera Hoffmann-Kolss

University of Bern
Institute of Philosophy
Länggassstrasse 49a
3012 Bern
Switzerland
Email: vera.hoffmann-kolss@philo.unibe.ch


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I am an analytic philosopher at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

My research interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. The main focus of my current research is on causation and causal models. I am also interested in the metaphysics of properties, the mind-body problem, and the recent debate on ontological indeterminacy and its implications for evaluations and decisions under uncertainty.

I am one of two PIs (together with Thomas Krödel, University of Hamburg) in an SNSF-DFG funded project called 'Beyond Causal Exclusion: New Challenges for Multi-Level Causal Models'. More information about this project will follow soon.

I was also one of seven PIs in a DFG research unit on Inductive Metaphysics. My subproject was on graded causation. More information is available here.

My current collaborators at the University of Bern are Matthias Rolffs (Postdoc), and Zhengguan Chen (PhD student).

I am happy to supervise theses on topics in my areas of expertise.