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
- Elsbeth Brouwer
- Paul Dekker
- Gaëlle Fontaine
- Reinhard Muskens
- Floris Roelofsen
- Robert van Rooij
- Giorgio Sbardolini
- Thomas Schindler
Postdocs
- Sander Beckers
- Émile Enguehard
- Tamar Johnson
- Beste Kamali
- Ulrika Klomp
- Patricia Mirabile
- Takanobu Nakamura
- Jeroen Smid
- Raquel Veiga Busto
PhD Candidates
- Aleksi Anttila
- Dominik Bachmann
- Marco Degano
- Sabina Domínguez Parrado
- Lyke Esselink
- Daniil Khaitovich
- Tomasz Klochowicz
- Soeren Knudstorp
- Sophie Nagler
- Ragna Oeynhausen
- Hugh Reilly
- Valentin Richard
- Jos Ritmeester
- Pablo Rivas-Robledo
- Oskar van der Wal
Research support staff
Retired Senior Staff
Guest Researchers
ILLC members connected to the unit by additional affiliation
- Johan van Benthem (MCL, retired)
- Arianna Betti (EPS)
- Karolina Krzyzanowska (EPS)
- Fenrong Liu (MCL)
- Dean McHugh (EPS)
- Aybüke Özgün (EPS)
- Marieke Schouwstra (LMC)
- Katrin Schulz (LMC)
- Sonja Smets (EPS)