Volker Halbach

Volker Halbach (born 21 October 1965) is a German logician and philosopher. His primary research interests lie in philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and epistemology, with a specific focus on formal theories of truth. He holds the position of Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and is a Tutorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. Halbach pursued his philosophical studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, earning an M.A. in 1991 and a doctorate in philosophy (summa cum laude) in 1994 for his dissertation "Tarski-Hierarchien". In 2001, he completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Semantics and Deflationism". From 1997 to 2004, he served as an assistant professor at Universität Konstanz. In 2004, he joined New College at the University of Oxford, where he teaches various logic-related courses. He was also the vice-president of the British Logic Colloquium until 2022. Halbach is the author of several publications, including the undergraduate logic textbook "The Logic Manual" and the book "Axiomatic Theories of Truth".