Tobias Hoffmann

Tobias Hoffmann grew up in Hamburg, Germany, and studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg (Germany) and Fribourg (Switzerland). He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Fribourg. In 2001, after completion of his PhD, he joined the Philosophy faculty at the Catholic University of America. Since 2021, he has been professor of medieval philosophy at Sorbonne Université. He specializes in Latin medieval philosophy, especially of the thirteenth and fourteenth century. He has published not only on major figures like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham, but also on numerous less known thinkers, who were highly important in their own day. His core interests lie in metaphysics, ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. His recent authored or edited books are on weakness of will, free will, and philosophical reflections about ideal agents, that is, angels.