Friederike Moltmann

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Friederike Moltmann

Friederike Moltmann is a linguist and philosopher . She is considered to be a pioneer of research in the interface between philosophy and linguistics, in particular between metaphysics and semantics of natural language, but also the interface to the philosophy of mind and mathematics . She is an important representative of the natural language ontology (English natural language ontology ). She is currently Research Director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris .

biography

Moltmann studied linguistics, philosophy and mathematics in Berlin and Munich. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 under Noam Chomsky . She then taught at various universities in the USA and Great Britain. In 2006 she became Director of Research at CNRS. She has been a visiting scholar at New York University since 2013, and in 2016 she was a visiting professor in Padua .

Moltmann is the founder of the annual colloquium “Semantics and Philosophy in Europe” and a founding member of the “International Center for Formal Ontology” in Warsaw.

Awards

In 2007 she received a Chaire d'Excellence from the Agence nationale de la recherche on the subject of “Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure”.

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Her main area of ​​research is the connection between linguistics and ontology, as well as the transition from linguistics to the philosophy of mind, language and mathematics. Her research on the ontology of natural language includes the semantics of mass nouns and plural forms and part-whole-related expressions, the semantics of events and their partial structure, the reference to abstract objects and to tropes (particularized properties) in natural language, the semantics of Numeral words and the ontology underlying the semantics of recruitment reports and modal sentences.

Her research integrates philosophy and linguistics in novel ways, often reviving the history of philosophy and older philosophical conceptions or concepts that appear to be reflected in natural language. In Parts and Wholes In Semantics (Oxford UP 1997) she used the Aristotelian concept of form and the shape theoretical concept of the integrated whole for the semantics of plural and mass nouns and of partially related expressions. In Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language (Oxford UP 2013), she returned to the Aristotelian-medieval category of tropics (Modus), reviving the difference between actions and products by Kazimierz Twardowski .

In other research she uses terms from contemporary philosophy for the semantics of natural language, such as plural reference, simulation and making true. Her research also deals with important philosophical terms from a natural language perspective: truth , existence , deontic modality, non-existent objects, relative truth, and citation.

Major influences: Noam Chomsky and Kit Fine .

Books

  • Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language. Oxford University Press, New York, 2013.
  • Parts and Wholes in Semantics. Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. Paperback, 2003.
  • Individuation and locality. Studies on event and noun phrase semantics. Fink Verlag, Munich 1992.

Anthologies

  • Unity and Plurality. Logic, Philosophy, and Semantics. edited with Massimiliano Carrara and Alexandra Arapinis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016
  • Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Published with Mark Textor, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • 'Natural Language Ontology'. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics . Oxford UP, New York, April 2017. online version
    • Abstract : This paper lays out natural language ontology as an emerging discipline, distinguishing it (as part of descriptive metaphysics) from foundational metaphysics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Natural Language Ontology. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ International Center for Formal Ontology
  3. ↑ Structure Semantique et Structure Ontologique. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 'The Semantics of Existence'. Linguistics and Philosophy 36.1., 2013, pp. 31-63.
personal data
SURNAME Moltmann, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Linguist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century