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Professor Robert van Rooij is a senior staff member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and holds a primary affiliation with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) within the Faculty of Science. He is also associated with the research groups Formal Semantics & Philosophical Logic (FSPL), Epistemology & Philosophy of Science (EPS), and Language & Music Cognition (LMC).
Research Interests: Professor van Rooij’s work spans formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language, focusing on phenomena such as conversational implicatures, presupposition, and speech acts. He has made significant contributions to philosophical logic, particularly on vagueness, comparatives, and truth, as well as to metaphysics with investigations into universals. More recently, game-theoretic approaches to language have become central, integrating insights from economic theory into linguistic pragmatics.
Grants & Projects:
- NWO VIDI project “The Economics of Language: Language Use and the Evolution of Linguistic Convention” (2005–2010)
- KNAW Fellowship project “Games, Relevance, and Meaning” (prior to 2005)
- NWO/ESF projects on vagueness and comparatives (until 2012)
- Ongoing supervision of an ESF-funded project on communication and context
Scientific Recognition & Awards:
- Recipient of the prestigious NWO VIDI grant
- Awarded KNAW Fellowship by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor van Rooij received his PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 1997. Throughout his career he has supervised numerous doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, contributing to the vibrant logic and language community at the ILLC.
