Robert van Rooij's Home page


Welcome to my home page. I am a senior staff member of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. I used to work mostly on the formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language (e.g. conversational implicatures) and philosophy of language. More recently, I worked also on topics in philosophical logic (e.g. vagueness) and metaphysics (e.g. universalia). From 2005 until 2010 I worked on my NWO funded VIDI research project in Amsterdam called `The Economics of Language. Language Use and the Evolution of Linguistic Convention'. Before that, I was a KNAW-fellow working on the project `Games, Relevance, and Meaning'. I did my PhD in Stuttgart (1997). Until 2012, I supervised two projects on vagueness and comparatives, funded by NWO and ESF. Currently I supervise an ESF-funded project on communication and context



You can E-mail me at R.A.M.VanRooij AT uva.nl


CV 
Papers available 
Vagueness, truth, and comparatives 
Games and language 
Conversational implicatures 
Presupposition 
Questions and speech acts 
Reference and dynamic semantics 
Formal semantics 
Propositional attitutudes 
Natural logic