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R.A. (Reinhard) Muskens


Associate Professor

Tilburg School of Humanities
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)

TiLPS 

Expertise

I am interested in the logic of ordinary language. We logicians study concepts such as truth, consequence, proof, computation and information with the help of formal languages, but it has increasingly become clear that many insights thus obtained also apply to the vernacular. My particular interest is in the question how linguistic expressions manage to carry meaning. A closely related interest is in the use of logic to model aspects of context and social interaction. At the moment I am leading an NWO-funded project called Towards Logics that Model Natural Reasoning.

I am in the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, (or TiLPS). For more information, see my website and/or Google Scholar.

Further Info

My CV gives detailed information about me. I'll try to keep it updated. My website also gives info, and most of my publications can be downloaded there.


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Publications

Principal publications
  • Intensional Models for the Theory of Types. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 72(1):98-118, 2007.
  • Higher Order Modal Logic. In P. Blackburn, J.F.A.K. van Benthem, and F. Wolter, editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning, pages 621-653. Elsevier, Dordrecht, 2006.
  • Sense and the Computation of Reference. Linguistics and Philosophy, 28(4):473-504, 2005.
  • Talking about Trees and Truth-conditions. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 10(4):417-455, 2001.
  • Combining Montague Semantics and Discourse Representation. Linguistics and Philosophy, 19:143-186, 1996.

Click here for the extended list of publications PDF

 

Publications

Principal publications
  • Intensional Models for the Theory of Types. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 72(1):98-118, 2007.
  • Higher Order Modal Logic. In P. Blackburn, J.F.A.K. van Benthem, and F. Wolter, editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning, pages 621-653. Elsevier, Dordrecht, 2006.
  • Sense and the Computation of Reference. Linguistics and Philosophy, 28(4):473-504, 2005.
  • Talking about Trees and Truth-conditions. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 10(4):417-455, 2001.
  • Combining Montague Semantics and Discourse Representation. Linguistics and Philosophy, 19:143-186, 1996.

Click here for the extended list of publications PDF

Direct and indirect funding

Internationalisation Grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for A Global Network for Lambda Grammars and Abstract Categorial Grammars (2007--2009; 48,000 euros).

Towards Logics that Model Natural Reasoning, September 2011--December 2015, 600,000 euros, NWO Free Competition in the Humanities.

Collaboration

Visiting Professorships
12/01/2006 -- 05/31/2007 Chercheur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientique, LaBRI, Bordeaux
01/01/2000 -- 06/30/2000 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
10/01/1998 -- 01/31/1999 Gastprofessor, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart
09/01/1996 -- 08/31/1997 Visitor, Computerlinguistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

Shorter Visits
01/22/2007 -- 02/02/2007 Visitor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
06/30/2006 -- 07/29/2006 Prof. invité, Projet Calligramme, INRIA-Lorraine, Nancy
06/08/2006 -- 06/19/2006 Visitor, Technion, Haifa
11/09/2005 -- 11/30/2005 Visitor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
02/14/2005 -- 02/24/2005 Visitor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
06/01/1999 -- 06/30/1999 Visitor, Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Potsdam

External accreditation

Member NWO committee Free Competition in the Humanities and Cooperation with Flanders.

Research supervision

Member external PhD committees

Willem Groeneveld, University of Amsterdam, 23 November 1995.

Andreas Schöter, Edinburgh University, 15 December 1995 (External Examiner).

Emar Maier, Radboud University Nijmegen, 30 November, 2006.

Matteo Capelletti, Utrecht University, 9 July, 2007.

Sébastien Hinderer, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, 21 October 2008.

Janneke Huitink, Radboud University Nijmegen, 13 November 2008.

Mario Fadda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 27 July 2010.

 

PhD Students and Postdocs

Past PhD student: Emiel Krahmer (co-supervision with Prof. H. Bunt). Defense: 23 November 1995. Currently full professor at Tilburg Department of Communication and Information Sciences.

Current PhD Students:

Kristina Liefke (co-supervision with Prof. Dr S. Hartmann),

Sven Storms (co-supervision with Prof. Dr H. de Swart)

Stefan Wintein (co-supervision with Prof. Dr H. de Swart, manuscript approved, defense in February 2012).

Near future: Janine Reinert and Lasha Abzianidze will start their PhD studies on or around 1 January 2012.

Postdoc: Dr Sara Uckelman.

 

Conferences

See my CV.

 

Teaching

This academic year I am teaching a first course in Logic for philosophy undergraduates, two seminars in Logic and Language for research master students and a course on 'Philosophical Research: Methods & Skills', also for research master students. Additionally I have made a small contribution to a showcase seminar for third year undergrads. I regularly teach at the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) and will also be present at ESSLLI 2012 in Opole, Poland with a course on 'Logic for Linguists and Philosophers'.

Contact details
Room D 138
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg 
Phone+31 13 466 2095
Secretary+31 13 466 2773
Fax +31 13 466 2892
Email r.a.muskens@tilburguniversity.edu

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Associate Professor
Tilburg School of Humanities
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)

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Last amended: 13 December 2011
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