Robert van Rooij
General
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.
Some newer papers
Here are some papers just published or to appear soon.
- Game theoretic pragmatics under conflicting and common interest (cond. accepted for Erkenntnis, with Kris de Jaegher)
- The propostional and relational syllogistic (Logique et Analyse, 2012)
- Vagueness, Signaling and bounded rationality (in proceedings LENLS 2010 with Michael Franke and Gerhard Jaeger)
- Vagueness, tolerance and non-transitive entailment (in Reasoning under Vagueness)
- Tolerant, Classical, Strict (in Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2012 with Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egre, and David Ripley)
- Tolerance and mixed consequence in a s'valuationist setting (to appear in Studia Logica, with Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egre, and Dave Ripley)
- Reaching transparent truth (c. accepted for Mind, with Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egre, and Dave Ripley)
- Revealed preference and satisficing behavior (in Synthese, 2011)
- Measurement and Interadjective Comparison (in Journal of Semantics, 2011)
Some older papers
At the following page you find more or less final versions of many of my older papers together with abstracts
Papers
Books
- Attitudes and Changing Contexts
- Games and Pragmatics
- - - - Review Games and Pragmatics
- Vagueness in Communication
- Language, Games and Evolution