Hans Kamp

About

Hans Kamp is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic focus is on the philosophy of language, specifically on propositional attitudes and the intersection of language and thought. Kamp's work involves exploring how language relates to mental states and the structure of meaning, contributing to the understanding of linguistic representation and cognition. His role at the university emphasizes research and teaching in these areas, engaging with students and colleagues on topics related to language philosophy and the theoretical underpinnings of propositional attitudes. Kamp's expertise and scholarly activities are centered around advancing the philosophical understanding of language, thought, and their interrelations.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• Cognitive science
• Psychology
• Law
• Aesthetics
• Algorithm

Selected publications

• A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation

  2013-02-04 · 81 citations

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• Using Proper Names as Intermediaries Between Labelled Entity Representations

  Erkenntnis · 2015-01-29 · 43 citations

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• Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation

  2013-10-17 · 33 citations

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  This selection of research papers written by Hans Kamp presents the core of his scientific research on natural language semantics and its relation to logic, philosophy and linguistics. Arranged in six sections, the topics range from philosophical reflection on the foundational issues in the ancient Sorites Paradox with a formal account of its solution, to a detailed account of presuppositions in dynamic semantics.

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• The Importance of Presupposition

  2013-01-01 · 23 citations

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  this paper may seem presumptuous. But I have chosen it anyway, as a signal of what I see as the central insight that recent studies of presupposition in natural language have given us. Presuppositions are not what early discussions suggested and later ones have, I feel, still done too little to explicitly refute: obstacles to logical transparence, logical simplicity or well-definedness of meaning, and thus a thing that languages would have been better off without. On the contrary, presupposition…

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• Epistemic Specificity from a Communication-Theoretic Perspective

  Journal of Semantics · 2018-12-04 · 21 citations

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  This paper offers a DRT-based analysis of epistemic specificity. Following Farkas (1996), we distinguish between scopal, partitive and epistemic specificity. After arguing in Section 1 that the three main variants of specificity are irreducible to each other, the paper then focuses on epistemic specificity. In the analysis of epistemically specific indefinites we distinguish between specific use and specific interpretation. Specific use is defined as a relation between (the semantic representati…

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Frequent coauthors

• Uwe Reyle

  22 shared

• Antje Roßdeutscher

  7 shared

• Barbara H. Partee

  5 shared

• Fritz Hamm

  3 shared

• Nicholas Asher

  3 shared

• Michael Klein

  3 shared

• Jan van Eijck

  University of Amsterdam

  3 shared

• Dana Scott

  University of California, Berkeley

  2 shared

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