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298Introduction to the special issue on the nature and scope of informationSynthese 175 (1). 2010.Information and its cognate concepts are frequently used in increasingly varied areas of scientific and scholarly investigations, from computing and engineering to philosophy and the social sciences. As a consequence, a great deal of interesting and exciting research is taking place in a wide range of fields, which do not always communicate with each other. So the second workshop1 of the IEG (the interdepartmental research group in philosophy of information at the University of Oxford2), took th…Read more
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23More Fragments of LanguageNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 47 (2): 151-177. 2006.By a fragment of a natural language, we understand a collection of sentences forming a naturally delineated subset of that language and equipped with a semantics commanding the general assent of its native speakers. By the semantic complexity of such a fragment, we understand the computational complexity of deciding whether any given set of sentences in that fragment represents a logically possible situation. In earlier papers by the first author, the semantic complexity of various fragments of …Read more
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University of OxfordPost-doctoral fellow
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland