Paul Hoffman

Biographic Data

ID3597712
NAMEPaul Hoffman
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEHoffman
SIGNATUREHOFFMAN P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oregon
ORCID0000-0002-7693-8957
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS94
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Leveraging Context for Perceptual Prediction Using Word Embeddings

    Open AccessGeorgia‐Ann Carter, Georgia Carter et al.ARTICLECognitive Science2025References: 79

    Word embeddings derived from large language corpora have been successfully used in cognitive science and artificial intelligence to represent linguistic meaning. However, there is continued debate as to how well they encode useful information about the perceptual qualities of concepts. This debate is critical to identifying the scope of embodiment in human semantics. If perceptual object properties can be inferred from word embeddings derived fro…

  • Discourse coherence modulates use of predictive processing during sentence comprehension

    Open AccessGeorgia-Ann Carter, Georgia Carter et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    Context has been shown to be vitally important for comprehension. Lexical processing is facilitated when words are highly predictable given their local sentence context, suggesting that people pre-activate likely upcoming words to aid comprehension. However, this facilitation is affected by knowledge about the global context in which comprehension takes place: people predict less when in an environment where expectations are frequently violated. …

  • South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

    E Schlosser, Paul Hoffman et al.BOOKSouth2016

  • Semantic diversity: A measure of semantic ambiguity based on variability in the contextual usage of words

    Open AccessPhilip Hoffman, Paul Hoffman et al.ARTICLEBehavior Research Methods2013

  • Essays on Descartes

    Paul Hoffman, Paul David HoffmanBOOKEssays on Descartes2009

  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

    Kenneth Maxwell, Paul HoffmanARTICLEForeign Affairs2003Cited by: 1

  • Descartes's Theory of Distinction

    Open AccessPhilip Hoffman, Paul HoffmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2002Cited by: 5

    In the first part of this paper I explore the relations among distinctness, separability, number, and non‐identity. I argue that Descartes believes plurality in things themselves arises from distinction, so that things distinct in any of the three ways are not identical. The only exception concerns universals which, considered in things themselves, are identical to particulars. I also argue that to be distinct is to be separable. Things distinct …

  • Freedom and strength of will: Descartes and Albritton

    Open AccessPaul HoffmanARTICLEPhilosophical Studies1995Cited by: 4

  • Alternative Possibilities: A Reply To Lamb

    John Martin Fischer, Paul Hoffman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Philosophy1994

  • Enlisting the Help of U.S. Undergraduates in Evaluating International Teaching Assistants

    George Yule, Philip Hoffman et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1993Cited by: 1

    N The steady increase in the numbers of international graduate teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. universities has prompted most large public universities to initiate both training programs and screening procedures in order to ensure that those ITAs whose first language is not English have adequate spoken English skills for the task of presenting instructional material to U.S. undergraduates. The focus in most of this work is on the training aspe…

  • Predicting Success for International Teaching Assistants in a U.S. University

    George Yule, Philip Hoffman et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1990Cited by: 2

    In this analysis of the performance of 233 international graduate assistants during a 2-year period, we attempted, via Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores submitted at the time of application, to predict which of these students would eventually receive positive or negative recommendations to be assigned teaching duties. Students who received negative recommendations were found, on average, to have s…

  • St. Thomas Aquinas on the Halfway State of Sensible Being

    Philip Hoffman, Paul HoffmanARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1990

    I n a provocative article challenging the received interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas's theory of sensation, Sheldon Cohen has argued that holds that the reception of a sensible form, whether natural or spiritual, is always a physical event.)l Whether or not we agree with the validity of this interpretation, there would seem to be no room for controversy regarding its content. But such is not the case. In replying to Cohen, John J. Haldane take…

  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes

    John Carriero, Paul Hoffman et al.REVIEWThe Philosophical Review1990

  • Archimedes' Revenge. The Joys and Perils of Mathematics

    John W Cooper, Philip Hoffman et al.ARTICLELeonardo1990

    A collection of articles on the highways and byways of mathematics. The book is written in the tradition of Martin Gardner and aims to be both entertaining and fascinating

  • Descartes's Gambit

    Philip Hoffman, Paul Hoffman et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1989

  • Paying Attention to Pronunciation: The Role of Self-Monitoring in Perception

    George Yule, Philip Hoffman et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1987Cited by: 5

    U It is widely recognized that a crucial component in developing effective second language pronunciation is, in fact, the development of particular listening skills. In many textbooks ostensibly dedicated to improving ESL pronunciation, a substantial number of exercises are devoted to making sure that the student, as listener, can first recognize the types of sound distinctions that are phonemic in English. As Prator and Robinett (1985) claim in …

  • Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World

    Philip Hoffman, Paul Hoffman et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1987

    Part I: 1. Boyle on empirical investigation 2. Boyle and the peripatetics 3. Boyle's corpuscular philosophy Part II: 4. Ideas 5. Qualities 6. Which qualities are primary? 7. Powers 8. What are secondary qualities? 9. Observability 10. Patterns and resemblance 11. Substance-in-general 12. Language and meaning 13. Essences, species and kinds 14. Knowledge

  • Learners in Transition: Evidence from the Interaction of Accuracy and Self-Monitoring Skill in a Listening Task

    Open AccessGeorge Yule, Jack Damico et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning1987References: 3

    Based on the observation that some ESL learners appear to regress in performance during language learning when traditional test accuracy scores are used, another aspect of students' performance was investigated. Using a confidence-rating scale, the self-monitoring abilities of 67 intermediate ESL students enrolled in a University-level pronunciation/listening course were assessed over a seven week period and compared with test accuracy scores. Re…

  • The Birth of a Nation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s: A Teaching Strategy

    Paul Hoffman, P D HoffmanARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1986

    The Birth of a Nation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s: A Teaching Strategy Get access Paul Dennis Hoffman Paul Dennis Hoffman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 1986, Pages 37–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/2.1.37 Published: 01 June 1986

  • The Unity of Descartes's Man

    Philip Hoffman, Paul HoffmanARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1986Cited by: 5

    One of the leading problems for Cartesian dualism is provide an account of the union of mind and body. This problem is often construed be one of explaining how thinking things and extended things can causally interact. That is, it needs be explained how thoughts in the mind can produce motions in the body and how motions in the body can produce sensations, appetites, and emotions in the mind. The conclusion often drawn, as it was by three of Desc…

  • Kripke on private language

    Open AccessPhilip Hoffman, Paul HoffmanARTICLEPhilosophical Studies1985

  • Using rock music to teach history

    Paul Hoffman, P D HoffmanARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1985

    Journal Article Using rock music to teach history Get access Paul Dennis Hoffman Paul Dennis Hoffman Paul Dennis is a teacher at Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona. For further information on this topic, write to Mr. Hoffman in care of the Magazine. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 1, Issue 1, May 1985, Pages 10–11, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/1.1.10 Published: …

  • Principal Components Analysis for Virtually Unlimited Data Matrices

    Open AccessE Mark Gold, Eric Gold et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1973

  • Types of judges and cue utilization in judgments of intelligence

    Nancy Wiggins, Paul J Hoffman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1969Cited by: 5

  • Dimensions Of Profile Judgments As A Function Of Instructions, Cue-Consistency And Individual Differences

    Nancy Wiggins, Paul HoffmanARTICLEMultivariate Behavioral Research1968

    It was hypothesized that paired-comparison judgments of multiple-cue profiles would be a joint function of instruction set,- cue-inconsistency, and individual differences. Thirty-one subjects judged all possible pairs of 22 profiles containing eight cues in an own-control, counterbalanced design. A comparison of instructions providing no attribute for judging similarity with those which did provide an attribute revealed systematic differences wit…