Professor Ofra Magidor

Background

Professor Magidor holds a BSc in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Between 2005 and 2007 she was Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Queen’s College, Oxford, and between 2007 and 2015/6 she was CUF lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford.

Research Interests

Professor Magidor’s research spans a range of topics in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic and Language, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mathematics.

Selected publications

• Property Versatility and Copredication (with David Liebesman), Oxford University Press 2025
• Category Mistakes​, Oxford University Press, 2013.
• ‘Infinite Jesters: deflationary reflections on new Zeno’ (with Alex Kaiserman), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 14 (2025): 222-257.
• ‘Ambiguity tests, polysemy, and copredication’ (with David Liebesman), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (2024): 551–560
• ‘Conditional acceptance’,  Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Language 1 (2019): 99-121
• ‘Meaning transfer revisited’ (with David Liebesman), Philosophical Perspectives 32 (2018): 254-297
• ‘How both you and the BIV can know whether or not you are envatted’, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (2018): 151-181.
• ‘Epistemicism, distribution, and the argument from vagueness’, Nous 52 (2018):144-170
• ‘Endurantism vs. Perdurantism?: A debate reconsidered’, Nous 50 (2016): 509-532
• ‘The myth of the de se’, Philosophical Perspectives ​29 (2015): 249-283.
• ‘Strict finistism and the happy sorites’, Journal of Philosophical Logic (2012): 471-91
• ‘Assertion, context, and epistemic accessibility’ (with John Hawthorne), Mind 118 (2009): 377-397