Daniel Hoek
Daniel Hoek, Assistant Professor

Department of Philosophy
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-4564 | dhoek@vt.edu
Daniel Hoek researches the philosophy of language and mathematics, and has written about loose talk, questions, choices, probability and infinity. Before coming to Virginia Tech, Hoek was a Louis Skolnick postdoc at Princeton, and completed his PhD at NYU under Cian Dorr. Hoek is a regular visitor of the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.
Hoek is interested in conversational exculpature, a pragmatic process by which information is subtracted from what we literally say. This can account for a range of linguistic phenomena, including loose talk and some metaphors. His other major research project is on inquisitive decision theory, an account of belief-guided action that emphasises the centrality of questions in decision-making.
- Philosophy of Language
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Decision Theory
- Formal Pragmatics
- PhD, New York University
- M.MathPhil, University of Oxford
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