The research focus of this unit is the study, through the application of formal tools, of information transfer and communication through meaningful language use, as well as of key philosophical problems. The unit brings together researchers who are a leading force within formal semantics and pragmatics and within philosophical logic.
Researchers in this unit investigate linguistic phenomena such as epistemic modals, conditionals, indexicals, quantifiers, free choice, rejection and questions as well as philosophical concepts such as vagueness, truth, consequence and conceivability.
A distinctive feature of the unit is the plurality of methods used to pursue the research objectives. Members of the unit draw on a variety of logical tools (different logics such as modal, many-valued, non-monotonic, supervaluationist, dynamic and inquisitive logics, using both model-theoretic and proof-theoretic approaches) and other formal tools (causal inference, game theory, computer simulations and other computational tools), and combine these tools with philosophical reflection and linguistic analysis.
Unit Leaders
- Luca Incurvati
- Maria Aloni (deputy)
Senior Staff
- Franz Berto
- Elsbeth Brouwer
- Paul Dekker
- Gaëlle Fontaine
- Reinhard Muskens
- Floris Roelofsen
- Robert van Rooij
- Jakub Szymanik
Postdocs
- Émile Enguehard
- Levin Hornischer
- Patricia Mirabile
- Thomas Roberts
- Giorgio Sbardolini
- Raquel Veiga Busto
PhD Candidates
- Dominik Bachmann
- Lwenn Bussière
- Marco Degano
- Ivar Kolvoort
- Dean McHugh
- Valentin Richard
- Oskar van der Wal
- Jialiang Yan
Retired Senior Staff
Guest Researchers
ILLC members connected to the unit by additional affiliation
- Johan van Benthem (MCL, retired)
- Arianna Betti (EPS)
- Fenrong Liu (MCL)
- Aybüke Özgün (EPS)
- Marieke Schouwstra (LMC)
- Katrin Schulz (LMC)
- Sonja Smets (EPS)
- Jeroen Smid (EPS)