'There are many things that are not the case, but that we know could have been the case. I could have taken public transport to get to work instead of taking the bike. Having knowledge of these non-actual situations is crucial for our future planning, risk assessment, and counterfactual reasoning. I use tools of logic, cognitive science, and philosophy to try to understand how it is that we know what is possible and whether we can justify this knowledge.'
Programme
The ILLC PhD programme, organised by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, is a four-year programme designed to support and guide PhD candidates in their track to become highly qualified scientific researchers in the areas described by the institute's research mission. PhD candidates are given the opportunity to benefit from a rich scientific programme as well as a tailor-made transferable-skills programme.
