Former Students

Master of Logic

PhD Programme


Master students
  • Tineke de Bunje: Axiomatiseerbaarheid in Predikatenlogica met Tijdsoperatoren, 1979.
  • Karen Kwast (†), De Sorites Paradox, 1981.
  • Gert-Jan van Vliet, Vooronderstellingen en Argumentatie. Een Strategie voor de Reconstructie van Verzwegen Argumenten, 1982.
  • Kees de Bakker, Logische Modellen en Empirische Theorieën, 1982.
  • Reinhard Muskens: Over de Semantiek van Adjectieven, 1983.
  • Kees van Deemter: Generalized Quantifiers: Finite versus Infinite, 1984.
  • Jos ten Hacken: Over de Interactie van Kwantoren en Tijdsdeterminatoren in het Engels, 1984.
  • Jacques Penders: Intentionaliteit, 1986.
  • Michael Morreau, Circumscription: a sound and complete form of non-monotonic reasoning, 1987.
  • Jaap van der Does, Naakte infinitieven: genest en niet genest, 1987.
  • Frank Mulkens, Counterfactuals in de geschiedwetenschappen, 1988.
  • Willem Groeneveld, A dynamic analysis of paradoxical sentences, 1989.
  • Arthur Nieuwendijk: 'Adhirikana' in het Nyaya-systeem, 1989.
  • Maartje Raymakers: Parallelle zelforganiserende systemen: alternatieven voor de AI?, 1992.
  • Mehdi Dastani: The role of images in the process of reasoning, 1992.
  • Paul Jansen: De semantiek van SQL-queries, 1992.
  • Jelle Gerbrandy: 'Might' in dynamic semantics, 1994.
  • Mathijs van Zutphen, The Structure of Meaning. Conditionals and Modality in Situation Semantics, 1995.
  • Wim Schlebaum, Objectiviteit van logica en betekenis. Anti-psychologisme bij Frege en Husserl, 1997.
  • Paul Harrenstein: From a modal point of view. A logical investigation into modalities 'de dicto' and 'de re', 1998.
  • Inez Woldman, Informatie in beweging, 1999.
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes: A study of William of Ockham's Logic from Suppositio to Truth Conditions, 2000.
  • Rosja Mastop: Acceptatie en Gebondenheid. Tegenspraak in Betekenis en Gebruik, 2000.
  • Maarten Cleeren: Isms, abstract objects in mathematics, 2001.
  • Wouter Kager: Questions and answers in Query Logic, 2001.
  • Farid Ahmed: Truth Conditions and Entailment Relation of Tensed Sentences, 2001.
  • Mathieu Vidal: Classifying Conditionals, 2002.
  • Seth Cable: Stand Over There, Please. Wherein is Discussed the Dynamics of Vagueness, The Origins of Vagueness, and How Pie Cutting relates to Ancient Heaps of Sand, 2002.
  • Irwin Lim: Reconceptualization and Implicit Definition, 2003.
  • Selma Depondt: Three Theories of Conditionals. Investigations on the Border of Semantics and Pragmatics, 2003.
  • Katrin Schultz: Semantics OR Pragmatics. A Case study on the interpretation of 'or', 2004.
  • Yanjing Wang: Indexed Semantics and Its Application in Modelling Interactive Unawareness, 2006.
  • Marieke Schouwstra (Philosophy, Utrecht): Fighting Omniscience, 2006.
  • David Chabot: Individual-level Predicates and When-Conditionals, 2007.
  • Harald Bastiaanse: Clarity in Non-Monotonic Logic, 2007.
  • Silvia Gaio: Gradability without Degrees, 2008.
  • Martijn Pennings: A Konolige bridge between default logic and autoepistemic logic, 2008.
  • Diederik Kloosterman: De Uitzondering Bevestigt de Regel. Ceteris Paribus Wetten, Teleologische Verklaringen en Logica, 2010.
  • Hanne Kristin Berg: Philosophy of time: Combining the A-series and the B-series, 2010.
  • Cian Chartier: Tarski's Threat to the T-Schema, 2011.
  • Kasper Højbjerg Christensen: Counterfactual Dependencies, 2011.
  • Marta Sznajder: Dynamic Semantics for Intensional Transitive Verbs. A Case Study, 2012.
  • Aleks Knoks: Abnormality Counts!, 2012.
  • Aadil Kurji: An Update Semantics for Promises and Other Obligation-Creating Speech Acts. A Promising Start, 2012.
  • Alessandra Marra: What should have been the case. A temporal update semantics for necessity deontic modals, 2013.
  • Maša Močnik: Slovenian Perfective and Imperfective Explicit Performative Utterances, 2015.
  • COPIES of master theses written for the MSc Logic (after 1997) can be found here

    PhD students

  • Fred Landman: Towards a Theory of Information. The status of Partial Objects in Semantics, 1986.
  • Jaap van der Does: Applied Quantifier Logics, 1992.
  • Willem Groeneveld: Logical Investigations into Dynamic Semantics, 1995.
  • Arthur Nieuwendijk: On Logic. Inquiries into the Justification of Deduction, 1997.
  • Nataša Rakić: Common Sense Time and Special Relativity, 1997.
  • Gwen Kerdiles: Saying It with Pictures: a logical landscape of conceptual graphs, 2001.
  • Allard Tamminga: Belief Dynamics. (Epistemo)logical Investigations. 2001
  • Rosja Mastop: What can you do? Imperative Mood in Semantic Theory, 2005.
  • Katrin Schulz: Minimal Models in Semantics and Pragmatics: Free Choice, Exhaustivity, and Conditionals, 2007.
  • Fabrice Nauze: Modality from a Typological Perspective, 2008.
  • Yingying Wang: Counterfactuals in Dynamic Perspective (Sun Jat-Sen University, Guangzhou), 2009.
  • Martin Mose Bentzen: Stit, Iit, and Deontic Logic for Action Types, 2010.
  • Simon Pauw: Size Matters, Grounding Quantifiers in Spatial Perception, 2013.
  • Fenkui Ju: Imperatives and Logic. (Peking University, Beijing), 2013.
  • Harald Bastiaanse: Very, Many, Small, Penguins. Vaguely Related Topics, 2013.
  • Hadil Karawani: The Real, The Fake, and the Fake Fake. Counterfactual Conditionals Crosslinguistically, 2014.
  • Inés Crespo: Affecting Meaning. Subjectivity and evaluativity in gradable adjectives, 2015.
  • Johannes Marti: Interpreting Linguistic Behavior with Possible World Models, 2016.

    COPIES of dissertations written at ILLC after 1993 can be found here


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