Malte Willer

Malte Willer is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and The College at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (2010) and an M.Phil from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2005). His research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and dynamic semantics, particularly addressing issues in epistemic modals, deontic logic, conditionals, and subjective language. Willer has contributed significantly to understanding the interaction between literal meaning and pragmatic enrichment in linguistic expressions.

Willer's educational background includes studies at Oxford University and LMU Munich, with a dissertation titled Modality in Flux under Nicholas Asher and Josh Dever. He has taught a wide range of courses, including advanced logic, Heidegger's Being and Time, and workshops on paper revision for graduate students. His interdisciplinary work bridges philosophy and linguistics, often addressing grounding constraints in natural language predicates.

Notable achievements include the 2016 Quantrell Award for teaching excellence. He currently serves as an associate editor at Semantics and Pragmatics and actively contributes to formal semantics debates. His research also explores topics like acquaintance inferences, subjective attitudes, and the dynamics of epistemic and deontic reasoning.