Hans Kamp
Johan Anthony Willem Kamp (mostly: Hans Kamp ) (born September 5, 1940 in Den Burg on Texel ) is a Dutch philosopher and linguist.
From 1958 he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Leiden , Holland (graduated as BA in 1961). This was followed by graduate studies in Amsterdam, where he received his doctorate in logic , fundamentals of mathematics and philosophy of empirical sciences in 1965 . This was followed by a postdoctoral stay at the University of California at Los Angeles , where he earned a further title ( PhD ) in 1968 with a dissertation on Tense Logic and the Theory of Linear Order . He then taught as an assistant professor at Cornell University , University College London , the University of Massachusetts and from 1974 to 1984 at Bedford College, University of London, interrupted by visiting professorships at MIT and the University of Texas . In summer 1988, the University of Stuttgart appointed him full professor for formal logic and philosophy of language at the Institute for Natural Language Processing.
Simultaneously with similar work by Irene Heim, Hans Kamp developed an extension of the classic sentence semantics for discourse representation theory (DRT).
In 1992 Kamp received the Max Planck Research Prize together with Barbara H. Partee and in 1996 the Jean Nicod Prize . Since 2006 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Web links
- Hans Kamps homepage of the University of Stuttgart
- Hans Kamp, Josef van Genabith , Uwe Reyle: Discourse Representation Theory (PDF; 1.3 MB)
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| SURNAME | Kamp, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kamp, Johan Anthony Willem (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch philosopher and professor of formal logic and philosophy of language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Den Kamp , Netherlands |