Rate My Professor Zach Weber

Professor Zach Weber is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2003 and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne in 2009, supervised by Graham Priest and Greg Restall. He held a Research Fellowship at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney (2008-2009), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2010-2012). Joining the University of Otago in 2012 as Lecturer, he advanced to Senior Lecturer (2014-2019), Associate Professor (2020), and Professor. Additional appointments include Honorary Fellow at the University of Sydney (2009-2011) and University of Melbourne (2012-2014), Scholar of Consequence and Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut (2011 and 2013), Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews (2011), and Visiting Researcher at the University of Kyoto (2016).

Weber's research specializes in philosophical logic, focusing on paradoxes, non-classical logic, paraconsistent approaches to vagueness, and foundations of mathematics. He authored Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Paraconsistency in Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and edited Ultralogic as Universal? by Richard Routley/Sylvan (Springer, 2019). His grants include Principal Investigator for Marsden Fund Fast-Start "Models of Paradox" (2013) and "Paraconsistent Computability Theory" (Royal Society of New Zealand, 2022-2026), Australian Research Council Discovery Grants and Early Career Award (2010-2011), Otago Humanities Research Grant (2012), University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2014), and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020). He served as Associate Editor of Analysis (2017-2021), on editorial boards of Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Logic, Thought, and The Reasoner, and as Secretary General/Treasurer of the Australasian Association of Logic (since 2012) and President (2014). Weber teaches PHIL 101 Mind and Reality, PHIL 105 Critical Thinking, PHIL 106 Radical Philosophy, PHIL 222 Introduction to Logic, PHIL 223/323 Metaphysical Questions, and PHIL 312 Advanced Logic, and supervises MA/PhD students in paraconsistent logic.