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    Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100 (edited book)
    with Hao Tang
    Springer Verlag. 2023.
    The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.
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    De Tractatus lezen. En waarderen
    with Jaap van der Does
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 115 (2): 139-152. 2023.
    Reading the Tractatus. And appreciating it The reception history of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus displays an impressive and persistent diversity. This paper explores possible sources of that diversity and locates them in different takes on the text and its context of origin, and in different perspectives of the readers. This hermeneutics is illustrated by a comparison of two views on the importance of ethics for an understanding of the Tractatus: that of Cora Diamond and the one…Read more
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    Culturele conventies, zekerheden en kritische reflectie
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 113 (3): 407-412. 2021.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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    Can Natural Language Be Captured in a Formal System?
    In Sven Ove Hansson & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), Introduction to Formal Philosophy, Springer. pp. 273-288. 2012.
    The question whether natural language can be captured in a formal system has been argued at length, and both a positive and a negative answer has been defended. The paper investigates the main lines of argument for both, and argues that the stalemate that appears to have been reached is an indication that the question itself rests on a wrong conception of the relation between natural languages and formal languages, and hence of the methodological status of formal modelling of natural language.
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    In the first essay, Stokhof discusses the nature and presuppositions of the formal semantic project as such. He shows that considerations of so-called radical interpretation and the normativity of meaning force us to rethink the relationship between the meaning of a linguistic utterance and its interpretation in a way that is hardly compatible with this project. In the second essay, the author introduces the early Ludwig Wittgenstein as an obvious, if completely neglected, precursor of formal se…Read more
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    There is a noticeable gap between results of cognitive neuroscientific research into basic mathematical abilities and philosophical and empirical investigations of mathematics as a distinct intellectual activity. The paper explores the relevance of a Wittgensteinian framework for dealing with this discrepancy.
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    A Relational Perspective on Collective Agency
    with Yiyan Wang
    Philosophies 7 (3): 63. 2022.
    The discussion of collective agency involves the reduction problem of the concept of a collective. Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories and made them face the tension between an irreducible concept of a collective and ontological reductionism. Heterodox theories as functionalism and interpretationism reinterpret the concept of agency and accept it as realized on the level of a collective. In order to adequately explain social phenomena that have relation…Read more
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    Rules, Regularities, Randomness. Festschrift for Michiel van Lambalgen (edited book)
    Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. 2022.
    Festschrift for Michiel van Lambalgen on the occasion of his retirement as professor of logic and cognitive science at the University of Amsterdam.
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    Questions
    In Johan van Benthem & Alice ter Meulen (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier. 2011.
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    Tractatus, Application and Use
    with Jaap van der Does
    Open Philosophy 3 (1): 770-797. 2020.
    The article argues for a contextualised reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It analyses in detail the role that use and application play in the text and how that supports a conception of transcendentality of logic that allows for contextualisation. The article identifies a tension in the text, between the requirement that sense be determinate and the contextual nature of application, and suggests that it is this tension that is a major driver of Wittgenstein’s later ideas.
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    Ethics and morality, principles and practice
    Zeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie 1 (2): 291-304. 2018.
    The paper addresses the tension in Wittgenstein’s work between an absolute and a more contextual approach to values. It argues that both are relevant, but that from a systematic point of view the contextual perspective has priority. The consequent commitment to a form of moral realism is discussed, and an analogy with normativity in the domain of language is adduced to provide further support.
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    Changez le contexte!
    Langage 123 08-29. 1996.
    a la base de cet article a ´ et´ e pr´ esent´ ee ` a la cinqui` eme ‘Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory’ qui s’est tenue ` a Austin, Texas, en F´ evrier 1995, et va paraˆıtre dans les actes de celle-ci. Nous aimerions remercier les participants `
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    Contains papers presented at the Thirteenth Amsterdam Colloquium in formal semantics, pragmatics and logic, which was held in Amsterdam, December 17-19, 2001.
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    Repliek
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (2): 237-243. 2017.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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    Het einde van de filosofie?
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (2): 171-198. 2017.
    The end of philosophy? A Wittgensteinian perspective on the challenge of naturalism The paper addresses the challenges that naturalism poses for the humanities, and for philosophy in particular. After a general overview it takes as its starting point recent discussions on Wittgenstein’s metaphilosophy and argues that from Wittgenstein’s work on certainty, aesthetic experience and religious belief a notion of ‘non-discursive content’ can be extracted that may provide a new take on the naturalist…Read more
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    Abstracte begrippen en concrete werkelijkheid - Twee vragen voor Hans Radder
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 106 (1): 69-74. 2014.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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    Abstracties en idealisaties: de constructie van de moderne taalkunde
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 72 (4): 749-776. 2010.
    The paper addresses the way in which modern linguistics, − in particular, but not exclusively, the generative tradition − , has constructed its core concepts. It argues that a particular form of construction, reminiscent of, but crucially different from, abstrac- tion, which is dubbed ‘idealisation’, plays a central role here. The resemblances and differences between abstractions and idealisations are investigated, and consequences of the reliance on idealisations are reviewed.
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    Formal Semantics and Wittgenstein
    The Monist 96 (2): 205-231. 2013.
    This paper discusses a number of methodological issues with mainstream formal semantics and then investigates whetherWittgenstein’s later work provides an alternative approach that is able to avoid these issues.
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    Nieuw maar onbereikbaar
    Krisis 75 (75): 86-91. 1999.
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    Semantics of wh-complements
    In Jeroen Groenendijk (ed.), Formal Methods in the Study of Language, U of Amsterdam. pp. 153-181. 1981.
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    Logische Dynamiek: Een Inleiding
    with Jfak van Benthem, J. A. G. Groenendijk, and Fjmm Veltman
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 90 (1): 3-25. 1998.
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    Studies in discourse representation theory and the theory of generalized quantifiers (edited book)
    with Jeroen A. G. Groenendijk and Dick de Jongh
    Foris Publications. 1986.
    Semantic Automata Johan van Ben them. INTRODUCTION An attractive, but never very central idea in modern semantics has been to regard linguistic expressions ...
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    Foundations of pragmatics and lexical semantics (edited book)
    with Jeroen A. G. Groenendijk and Dick de Jongh
    Foris Publications ;. 1986.
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    Hand or Hammer? On Formal and Natural Languages in Semantics
    Journal of Indian Philosophy 35 (5-6): 597-626. 2007.
    This paper does not deal with the topic of ‘the generosity of artificial languages from an Asian or a comparative perspective’. Rather, it is concerned with a particular case taken from a development in the Western tradition, when in the wake of the rise of formal logic at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century people in philosophy and later in linguistics started to use formal languages in the study of the semantics of natural languages. This undertaking rests on ce…Read more
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    Truth, interpretation, and information: selected papers from the third Amsterdam colloquium (edited book)
    with Jeroen Groenendijk and Theo M. V. Janssen
    Foris Publications. 1984.
    A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation Hans Kamp. INTRODUCTION Two conceptions of meaning have dominated formal semantics of natural language. ...
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    Does DBS change a patient’s personality? This is one of the central questions in the debate on the ethics of treatment with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). At the moment, however, this important debate is hampered by the fact that there is relatively little data available concerning what patients actually experience following DBS treatment. There are a few qualitative studies with patients with Parkinson’s disease and Primary Dystonia and some case reports, but there has been no qualitative study …Read more