Links to papers and some other outputs.
Philosophy of semantics
- Can natural language be captured in a formal system?
In: S.O. Hanson, V. Hendricks and E. Kjeldahl (eds), Introduction to Formal Philosophy, Berlin/NewYork, Springer, 2018, pp. 273-288 [.pdf] - What cost naturalism? [with Michiel van Lambalgen]
In: K. Balogh and W. Petersen (eds), Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics. Selected papers of BRIDGE-14, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf University Press, 2016, pp. 89–117 [.pdf] - Arguing about dynamic meaning
In: A. Baltag and S. Smets (eds.), Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information, Berlin/New York, Springer, 2014, pp. 749-764 [.pdf] - Abstracte begrippen en concrete werkelijkheid [with Michiel van Lambalgen]
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2014, Vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 69-74 [.pdf] - Formal semantics and Wittgenstein: An alternative?
In: The Monist, Vol. 96, no. 2, 2013, pp. 205-231 [.pdf] - Martin Stokhof discusses formal semantics and Wittgenstein
From: Elucidations: A University of Chicago Podcast by Matt Teichman, 2013 [.mp3] - Intuitions and competence in formal semantics
In: B. Partee, M. Glanzberg and J. Skilters (eds), The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication. Volume 6: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context and Models., Riga, University of Latvia Press 2011, pp. 1-23 [.pdf] - The role of artificial languages
In: D. Graff Fara and G. Russell (eds), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 544-53 [.pdf] - Abstractions and idealisations: the construction of modern linguistics [with Michiel van Lambalgen]
In: Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 37, no. 1-2, 2011, pp. 1-26 [.pdf]
[A Dutch version of this paper appeared in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Vol.72, 2010, pp. 749-776] - Comments-to-comments [with Michiel van Lambalgen]
In: Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 37, no. 1-2, 2011, pp. 79-94 [.pdf] - Taal en praktijk
In: Nederlandse Taalkunde, Vol. 13, no. 3, 2008, pp. 322-329 [.pdf]
[Short version of Taal: constructie en praktijk, unpublished manuscript [.pdf]] - Information in natural language [with Hans Kamp]
In: P. Adriaans and J. van Benthem (eds), Handbook of the Philosophy of Information, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2008, pp. 49-112 [.pdf] - Hand or hammer? On formal and natural languages in semantics
In: The Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 35, no. 5-6, 2007, pp. 597-626 [.pdf] - The future of semantics?
In: Theoretical Linguistics, 32, 2006, pp. 91-100 [.pdf] - Why compositionality? [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: G. Carlson and J. Pelletier (eds), Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect, Stanford, CSLI Press, 2005, pp. 83-106 [.pdf] - Meaning, interpretation and semantics
In: D. Barker-Plummer, D. Beaver, J. van Benthem and P. Scotto di Luzio (eds), Words, Proofs, and Diagrams, Stanford, CSLI Press, 2002, pp. 217-240 [.pdf] - Could semantics be something else? Philosophical challenges for formal semantics
In: J. Gerbrandy, M. Marx, M. de Rijke and Y. Venema (eds), JFAK 50. Essays Presented to Johan van Benthem on the Occasion of his Fiftieth Birthday, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 1999 [.pdf]
Wittgenstein
- De Tractatus lezen. En waarderen. [with Jaap van der Does]
in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2023, Vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 139-152 [.pdf]
English translation: Reading the Tractatus. And appreciating it [.pdf] - Naturalising mathematics? A Wittgensteinian perspective [with Jan Stam, Michiel van Lambalgen]
In: Philosophies, 2022, 7(4), 85, https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040085, [.pdf] - Interview met Robert van Altena over Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Uitzending van Springvossen, 14 maart 2022, AmsterdamFM [.mp3]
- Inleiding
In: L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, vertaald door Peter Huijzer en Jan Sietsma, Octavo, Amsterdam, pp. 7-30 - Tractatus, application and use [with Jaap van der Does]
In: Open Philosophy, 2020, Vol. 3, pp. 77-797 [.pdf] - ‘A people thing’: philosophical experiences
In: Ying, X. (ed.), Xue bu fen dong xi: Qing hua da xue zhe xue xi jiao shi lun wen ji. Beijing, Qing hua da xue chu ban she, 2020, pp. 365-389 [.pdf] - Ethics and morality, principles and practice
In: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 2018, Vol. 1, pp. 291-304 [.pdf] - Wittgenstein over taal
Lezing Humanistisch Verbond Amsterdam, 18 februari 2018 [.pdf] - Het einde van de filosofie? De uitdaging van het naturalisme vanuit een Wittgensteiniaans perspectief
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2017, Vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 171-198 [.pdf]
Revised English version: The end of philosophy? A Wittgensteinian perspective on the challenge of naturalism [.pdf]
Chinese translation of English version in: Approaching Meaning: Formal Semantics and Wittgenstein. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2022 - Repliek
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2017, Vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 237-243 [.pdf] - The quest for purity. Another look at the New Wittgenstein
In: Croatian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XI, no. 33, 2011, pp. 275-94 [.pdf] - Leven zonder hoop of vrees. Stoïsche elementen in de conceptie van het goede leven in Wittgensteins Tractatus
In: Filosofie, Vol. 20, no. 6, 2010, pp. 19-27 [.pdf] - Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophische Untersuchungen
In: R. Gabriels (ed), De 20ste eeuw in 10 filosofische boeken, Amsterdam, Boom, 2009, pp. 87-109 [.pdf] - The architecture of meaning: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and formal semantics
In: D. Levy and E. Zamuner (eds), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, London, Routledge, 2008, pp. 211-244 [.pdf] - De hang naar zuiverheid
In: De Gids, fall 2005 [.pdf] - World and Life as One. Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Work, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002 [available at Amazon]
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
In: M. Keestra (ed), Tien Westerse Filosofen, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds, 2000, pp. 165-188 [.pdf]
Dynamic semantics
- The gamut of dynamic logics [with Jan van Eijck]
In: D. Gabbay and J. Woods (eds.), The Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 6: Logic and Modalities in the Twentieth Century, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006. pp. 499-600 [.pdf] - Meaning in motion [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: K. von Heusinger and U. Egli (eds.), Reference and Anaphoric Relations, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1999, pp. 47-76 [.pdf] - Betekenis in beweging [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte,Vol. 90, no. 1, 1998, pp. 26-53 [.pdf] - Coreference and modality in multi-speaker discourse [with Jeroen Groenendijk, Frank Veltman]
In: H. Kamp and B. Partee (eds), Context Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning,Stuttgart, I.M.S., 1997, pp. 195-216 [.pdf] - Changing the context: dynamics and discourse [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: E. Doron and S. Wintner (eds), IATL 3: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference and of the Workshop on Discourse,Jerusalem, Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics,1996, pp.104-128 [.pdf] - Changez le contexte! [with Jeroen Groenendijk, Frank Veltman]
In: Langages, Vol. 30, 1996, pp. 8-29 [.pdf] - Coreference and modality [with Jeroen Groenendijk, Frank Veltman]
In: S. Lappin (ed), Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp. 179-216[.pdf] - This might be it [with Jeroen Groenendijk, Frank Veltman]
In: D. Westerstahl and J. Seligman (eds), Language, Logic and Computation: The 1994 Moraga Proceedings, CSLI, Stanford, 1996, pp. 255-270 [.pdf] - Coreference and contextually restricted quantification [with Jeroen Groenendijk, Frank Veltman]
In: M. Simons and T. Galloway (ed), Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, DMML Publications, Ithaca, NY, , 1995, pp. 112-129 [.pdf] - Dynamic predicate logic [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 14, no. 1, 1991, pp. 39-100 [.pdf] - Dynamic Montague grammar [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: L. Kalman and L. Polos (eds), Proceedings of the Second Symposion on Logic and Language, Budapest, Eotvos Lorand University Press, 1990, pp. 3-48 [.pdf] - Two theories of dynamic semantics [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: J. van Eijck (ed), Logics in AI, Berlin, Springer, 1990, pp. 55–64 [.pdf] - Context and information in dynamic semantics [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: In B. Elsendoorn and H. Bouma (eds), Working Models of Human Perception, New York, Academic Press, 1988, pp. 457–488 [.pdf]
Questions
- Questions [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen (eds), Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam/Cambridge, Mass., Elsevier/MIT Press, Amsterdam/Cambridge, Mass., 1997, pp. 1055-1124, second edition, 2011, pp. 1059–1131 [.pdf] - Interrogatives and adverbial quantification [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: K. Bimbo and A. Mate (eds), Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Logic and Language,Budapest, Aron Publishers, 1993, pp. 1-29 [.pdf] - A note on interrogatives and adverbs of quantification [with Jeroenen Groenendijk]
In: D. Dowty and C. Barker (eds), Proceedings of the Second Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Columbus, Ohio,Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1992, pp. 99-124 [.pdf] - Partitioning Logical Space [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
Annotated Handout, ESSLLI 2, Leuven, August 1990 [.pdf] - Type-shifting rules and the semantics of interrogatives [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: G. Chierchia, B. H. Partee and R. Turner (eds), Properties, Types and Meaning. Vol. II: Semantic Issues, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1988, pp. 21–69
Reprinted in: P. Portner and B. H. Partee (eds), Formal Semantics. The Essential Readings, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002. pp. 421-456 [.pdf] - Flexibiliteit in de semantiek. Twee argumenten uit de semantiek van vraagzinnen [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: GLOT, Vol. 10, 1987, pp. 373-397 [.pdf] - Studies on the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
PhD Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1984 [.pdf] - On the semantics of questions and the pragmatics of answers [with Jeroenen Groenendijk]
In: F. Landman and F. Veltman (eds) Varieties of Formal Semantics, Foris, Dordrecht, 1984, pp. 143–170 [.pdf]
[Reprinted in: J. Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed), Semantics: Critical Concepts. Vol. V: Operators and Sentence Types, Routledge, London, 2003, pp. 288–313] - Interrogative quantifiers and Skolem-functions [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: K. Ehlich and H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Connectedness in Sentence, Discourse and Text, Department of Linguistics, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, 1983, pp. 71-110 [.pdf] - Semantics of wh-complements [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 5, no. 2, 1982, pp. 175-233 [.pdf]
Miscellaneous
- Philosophy as change
In: T. Melzer (ed), Atlas of Aspect Change, Rollo Press, Zürich, 2022, pp. 61-79 [.pdf]
(A slightly different, earlier version in Chinese appeared in:
Zhongjiang Wang (ed), Philosophy in China Today, Shengda University Press, Zhengzhou, 2022, pp. 86-111) - Approaching Meaning: Formal Semantics and Wittgenstein
Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2022, ISBN 978-7-302-60092-3 [available at JD.com] - A relational perspective of collective agency
In: Philosophies, 2022, 7(3), 63, https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7030063 [.pdf][with Wang Yiyan] - Episodic problems
In: K. Stenning and M. Stokhof (eds), Rules, Regularities, Randomness. Festschrift for Michiel van Lambalgen, ILLC/University of Amsterdam, 2022, pp. 129-135 [.pdf] - A brief history of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. People, Ideas & Practices. [with Johan van Benthem]
ILLC/University of Amsterdam, 2021 [.pdf] - Culturele conventies, zekerheden en kritische reflectie
In: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2021, Vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 407-412 [.pdf] - The affordances of art: the role of the individual and the case of literature
In: Adaptive Behavior, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712321995604 [.pdf] - Interview with Louise McNally Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 07/09/2020 [.m4a]
(Part of a series of four on-line conducted interviews on the early days of formal semantics. Other interviewees: Hans Kamp, Barbara Partee, and Angelika Kratzer. Video and audio of all four interviews can be found here.) - Workshop ‘Logic, modernity, modernism: Chinese and western perspectives’: a write-up of first impressions [with Wang Lu]
In: Studies in Logic, Vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, pp. 114-123 [.pdf] - The company of objects / Het gezelschap van dingen
In: T. Melzer and K. Andreasen, Inventory, Haarlem, Johan Deumens, 2008, pp. 13 16, 27-30 [.pdf] - The development of Montague grammar
In: S. Auroux, K. Koerner, H-J. Niederehe and K. Versteegh (eds), History of the Language Sciences, Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin – New York, 2006, pp. 2058–2073 [.pdf] - Review article of Stanley Peters and Esa Saarinen (eds), Processes, Beliefs and Questions, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1982 [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Studies in Language, Vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp. 409–427 [.pdf] - Over logische vorm [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: TTT. Tijdschrift voor Tekst- en Taalwetenschap, Vol. 2, no. 4, 1982, pp. 261-305 [.pdf] - A pragmatic analysis of specificity [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: F. Heny (ed), Ambiguities in Intensional Contexts, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1981, pp. 153-180 [.pdf] - The Conway paradox: Its solution in an epistemic framework [with Peter van Emde Boas and Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: J. Groenendijk, T. Janssen and M. Stokhof Formal Methods in the Study of Language (MC Tracts no 135), Amsterdam, Mathematical Centre, 1981, pp. 87-111 [.pdf]
[Reprinted in: J. Groenendijk, T. Janssen and M. Stokhof Truth, Interpretation, and Information (Grass Series no 2), Dordrecht, Foris, 1984, pp. 159-182] - Semantics, pragmatics and the theory of meaning [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 2, no. 1, 1978 pp. 49-70 [.pdf] - Modality and conversational information [with Jeroen Groenendijk]
In: Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 2, no. 1-3, 1975, pp. 61-112 [.pdf]