TILPS

Lasha Abzianidze is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University, working under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hartmann and Prof. Reinhard Muskens. After finishing his undergraduate studies in pure Mathematics at Tbilisi State University, he continued his studies in computational linguistics at the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies. In 2011, he got the double Master's Degree from the University of Nancy 2 and Charles University in Prague. His master thesis was about designing HPSG-based formal grammar of a core fragment of Georgian and implementing the grammar in trale system (the grammar page). His current research focuses on natural logic - logic that models natural reasoning in natural languages, in particular, type-logical semantics, syntax-semantic interface, natural language inference, monotonicity calculus, a proof theory for natural logic, modes of reasoning (e.g. abduction) in natural logic and automated reasoning in natural logic. For more information, visit his webpage.

Robert van Iersel is a Ph.D student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University, working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann. He studied economy and philosophy (cum laude) at Tilburg University. As an external Ph.D student he combines academic research with a job in industry. His primary areas of interest include general philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, scientific explanation and pragmatism. His research focuses on scientific explanation in the life sciences and mechanistic explanations.

Dominik Klein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied mathematics, philosphy and scandinavian studies at the Friedrich-Wilmhelms University Bonn, Germany. He graduated from there in 2010 with a diploma thesis on the application of forcing techniques from mathematical logic to the field of algebra. His primary interests are formal logic, game theory, voting theory and social choice theory.

Kristina Liefke is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy and linguistics at Christian Albrecht University (CAU) at Kiel, Germany, and the University of California at Los Angeles. She graduated from CAU in 2009 with a Master's thesis on the semantics of natural language predicative expressions. Her primary areas of interest include intensional semantics, logic, and formal epistemology. Her research focuses on the construction of intensional models for the representation of epistemic objects. For more information, visit her webpage.

Chiara Lisciandra is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy, and attended a two-years Master Program in philosophy at San Raffaele University in Milan. Chiara was also visiting student at the Albert-Ludwig Universität in Freiburg in Germany. After her Master Degree, she worked at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, where she did research on social epistemology. Her main interests focus on epistemology, philosophy of the social sciences, and on the literature at the intersection between economics, cognitive psychology and philosophy. For more information, visit her webpage.

Soroush Rafiee Rad is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He finished his undergraduate studies in pure Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology in Iran and received his PhD in Mathematical Logic from University of Manchester, where he worked on uncertain reasoning and probability logic under the supervision of Professor Jeff Paris. His research in Mathematical Logic was primarily focused on probabilistic inferences based on rationality and common sense principles, and in particular, for first order languages. He has also worked on para-consistent logics and probabilistic consequence relations. His research at Tilburg will be mostly focused on probabilistic approaches to rational choice theory with emphasis on epistemology of multi agent settings and social networks. His primary interests include Mathematical logic and formal Philosophy and in particular; inductive logic, rational choice theory, epistemology, non standard logics and foundations of Mathematics.

Janine Reinert is a PhD student in Reinhard Musken’s NWO-funded project “Towards Logics that Model Natural Reasoning”. She completed her master degree in Philosophy and Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Dusseldorf in 2011, where she graduated with a thesis on the justification and the consequences of ontological posits in logical semantics. Currently, she is primarily interested in the (in)congruity of logical and natural language semantics. Janine’s other interests include metaphysics (esp. ontology), the philosophy of logic, and paraconsistency.

Sven Storms is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied mathematics and physics at the Catholic University of Leuven and theology at the Sint-Janscentrum in 's-Hertogenbosch before gaining his M.A. in philosophy at Tilburg University. His research concerns foundations and philosophy of mathematics, proof theory and formal truth theory.

Dorette van der Tholen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on questions about meta-philosophy. Her primary interest concerns methodological issues concerning analytic epistemology and epistemological contextualism in particular.

Stefan Wintein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied econometrics and philosophy at Tilburg University and graduated cum laude in both disciplines. In econometrics, his master thesis was in cooperative game theory while his master thesis in philosophy was concerned with the rationality assumptions in non cooperative game theory. After working in business for some time, he decided to return to academia to write a graduate thesis. In this thesis he develops a framework, called assertoric semantics, to (primarily) deal with languages of self-referential truth. Philosophically, assertoric semantics is inspired by Brandom's slogan that in doing semantics ``correctness of inference should prevail over correctness of representation''. Cashing out this slogan formally, an elegant account of (self-referential) truth emerges that differs substantially from the accounts found in the contemporary literature.