Martin Stokhof
Biographic Data
| ID | 1228619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Stokhof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokhof |
| SIGNATURE | STOKHOF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8966-8095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Naturalising Mathematics? A Wittgensteinian Perspective
There is a noticeable gap between results of cognitive neuroscientific research into basic mathematical abilities and philosophical and empirical investigations of mathematics as a distinct intellectual activity. The paper explores the relevance of a Wittgensteinian framework for dealing with this discrepancy
A Relational Perspective on Collective Agency
The discussion of collective agency involves the reduction problem of the concept of a collective. Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories and made them face the tension between an irreducible concept of a collective and ontological reductionism. Heterodox theories as functionalism and interpretationism reinterpret the concept of agency and accept it as realized on the level of a collective. In order to adeq…
Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers
Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar
Abstractions and idealisations: The construction of modern linguistics
The paper addresses the way in which modern linguistics, – in particular, but not exclusively, the generative tradition –, has constructed its core concepts. It argues that a particular form of construction, reminiscent of, but crucially different from, abstraction, which is dubbed ‘idealisation’, plays a central role here. The resemblances and differences between abstractions and idealisations are investigated, and consequences of the reliance o…
Significado em movimento
O presente artigo delineia o lugar da semântica dinâmica dentro de um quadro mais amplo de desenvolvimentos nas teorias lingüísticas e filosóficas sobre o significado. Alguns conceitos básicos da semântica dinâmica são apresentados através de uma análise detalhada das descrições anafóricas definidas e indefinidas, que são tratadas como expressões quantificacionais dependentes do contexto. Demonstra-se aqui como a perspectiva dinâmica lança novas …
Hand or Hammer? On Formal and Natural Languages in Semantics
The future of semantics
The paper by Fritz Hamm, Hans Kamp and Michiel van Lambalgen (in what follows abbreviated as ‘ hkl ’) is a very rich one. Not only does it contain a wealth of empirical and formal insights concerning the analysis of tense and aspect, planning and causality, and other phenomena, it also contains some penetrating remarks concerning the scope and method of semantic theory. It is the latter aspect of the paper that I want to make a few comments on in…
World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein's Early Thought
This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length argument that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. The book's main thesis is twofold. It argues that th…
Changez le contexte
J. Groejnendijk, M. Stokhof, F. Veltman, Université d'Amsterdam : « Changez le contexte ! » The paper advocates a move from the traditional logical-philosophical concept of meaning as a pictorial relation between language and the world, towards a dynamic view which ties the notion of meaning directly to the process of interpretation of discourse. Dynamics is shown at work in an analysis of certain anaphoric relations in terms of contextually rest…
Dynamic predicate logic
Truth, Interpretation and Information: Selected Papers from the Third Amsterdam Colloquium
Semantic analysis of wh-complements
Semantics, pragmatics and the theory of meaning
Modality and Conversational Information
Dynamic predicate logic
Changez le contexte
J. Groejnendijk, M. Stokhof, F. Veltman, Université d'Amsterdam : « Changez le contexte ! » The paper advocates a move from the traditional logical-philosophical concept of meaning as a pictorial relation between language and the world, towards a dynamic view which ties the notion of meaning directly to the process of interpretation of discourse. Dynamics is shown at work in an analysis of certain anaphoric relations in terms of contextually rest…
Semantics, pragmatics and the theory of meaning
Modality and Conversational Information
Semantics, pragmatics and the theory of meaning
Semantic analysis of wh-complements
Truth, Interpretation and Information: Selected Papers from the Third Amsterdam Colloquium
Dynamic predicate logic
Changez le contexte
J. Groejnendijk, M. Stokhof, F. Veltman, Université d'Amsterdam : « Changez le contexte ! » The paper advocates a move from the traditional logical-philosophical concept of meaning as a pictorial relation between language and the world, towards a dynamic view which ties the notion of meaning directly to the process of interpretation of discourse. Dynamics is shown at work in an analysis of certain anaphoric relations in terms of contextually rest…
World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein's Early Thought
This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length argument that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. The book's main thesis is twofold. It argues that th…
The future of semantics
The paper by Fritz Hamm, Hans Kamp and Michiel van Lambalgen (in what follows abbreviated as ‘ hkl ’) is a very rich one. Not only does it contain a wealth of empirical and formal insights concerning the analysis of tense and aspect, planning and causality, and other phenomena, it also contains some penetrating remarks concerning the scope and method of semantic theory. It is the latter aspect of the paper that I want to make a few comments on in…
Hand or Hammer? On Formal and Natural Languages in Semantics
Significado em movimento
O presente artigo delineia o lugar da semântica dinâmica dentro de um quadro mais amplo de desenvolvimentos nas teorias lingüísticas e filosóficas sobre o significado. Alguns conceitos básicos da semântica dinâmica são apresentados através de uma análise detalhada das descrições anafóricas definidas e indefinidas, que são tratadas como expressões quantificacionais dependentes do contexto. Demonstra-se aqui como a perspectiva dinâmica lança novas …
Abstractions and idealisations: The construction of modern linguistics
The paper addresses the way in which modern linguistics, – in particular, but not exclusively, the generative tradition –, has constructed its core concepts. It argues that a particular form of construction, reminiscent of, but crucially different from, abstraction, which is dubbed ‘idealisation’, plays a central role here. The resemblances and differences between abstractions and idealisations are investigated, and consequences of the reliance o…
Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar
Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers
Naturalising Mathematics? A Wittgensteinian Perspective
There is a noticeable gap between results of cognitive neuroscientific research into basic mathematical abilities and philosophical and empirical investigations of mathematics as a distinct intellectual activity. The paper explores the relevance of a Wittgensteinian framework for dealing with this discrepancy
A Relational Perspective on Collective Agency
The discussion of collective agency involves the reduction problem of the concept of a collective. Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories and made them face the tension between an irreducible concept of a collective and ontological reductionism. Heterodox theories as functionalism and interpretationism reinterpret the concept of agency and accept it as realized on the level of a collective. In order to adeq…
Philosophy (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works) · Programming language (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)