Dr. P.J.E. (Paul) Dekker
Faculty of Humanities
Logic and Language
Visiting address
- Oude Turfmarkt 141
- Room number: 0.04 /
Postal address
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Postbus 94201
1090 GE Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
- oὐκ ἐμοῦ ἀλλὰ τοῦ λόγου ἀκούσαντας ὁμολογεῖν σοφόν ἐστιν ἓν πάντα εἶναι (Herakleitos)
- Welcome to the page of a researcher studying and teaching in the area of Logic and Language. My work is concerned with the public and intentional nature of meaning, and my generic interests include belief, indexicality, quantification and satisfaction in discourse.
- I am the Amsterdam representative in the European Network of the Philosophy of Language and Mind (PLM). I have directed MSc Logic program of the University of Amsterdam, and I have been the chair of the Standing Committee of the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) for a decade.
Conceptual Windows Afford Views on Satisfying Individuals
This manuscript presents a modal logic with contextually restricted quantification that provides a transparant and realist treatment of de re beliefs, and knowing who construction, and that in principle also allows us to make sense of talk about things non-existent. It has been submitted for publication.
ESSLLI 2022
Below are the slides used in the course Theory of Interpretation that I presented at ESSLLI 2022, in Galway, Ireland, August 8-12. As a tool for the preparation of the first class I have cooked up a handsome, I hope, introduction to Natural Deduction.
Handbook of Formal Semantics
(ed. Maria Aloni and Paul Dekker) Appeared in the series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics.
Indexical Inference
This paper advocates an indexical account of discourse reference, and provides a sound and complete deduction system for a (variable free) system of discourse representation and dynamic interpretation. Review of Symbolic Logic, in 2016.
Not Only Barbara
This paper explicates the transparent syllogistics for a cube of oppositions, and pleads for a non-conservative theory of generalized quantifiers in natural language. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2015.
Live Meanings
This paper is a follow up of the one on Live Compositionality and reflects upon the enterprises of compositional, truth-conditional, contextual and conceptual semantics. In Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics, 2017, Kata Balogh and Wiebke Petersen (eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition, Düsseldorf University Press.
The Logos
The pre-socratic philosopher Herakleitos has demonstrated a logos, which contains more of a logic then the syllogoi of his postdecessors. In New Dimensions of the Square of Opposition, 2017, Jean-Yves Beziau and Stamatios Gerogiorgakis (eds.), Philosophia Verlag, München.
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Editions
- Existential Disclosure, 1993, Linguistics and Philosophy
- The Values of Variables in Dynamic Semantics, 1996, Linguistics and Philosophy
- Scopes in Discourse, 1999, Journal of Language and Computation
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Stuff
Some propositions, not obviously original, on:
- How to do Syllogistic Logic (in a cube JoLLI 2015 §2)
- How to do Propositional Logic (without connectives RSL 2016 §1)
- How to do Predicate Logic (without variables and objects RSL 2016 §3; DS 2012 §2; PLA 1994)
- How to do Generalized Quantifiers (JoLLI 2015 §3; DS 2012 §4.1; L&P 2008; L&P 2003)
- How to do TC Semantics (with live meanings Düsseldorf 2016; Frankfurt 2014; Riga 2010)
- How to do Discourse Reference (without problems RSL 2016 §2)
- How to do Indexical Inference (with self-reference RSL 2016 §5; She's#2001; ID2004/1995)
- How to do Intentional Objects (without commitment SAJL 2017 §4)
- How to do Situations (carefully DS 2012 §4.4, CASE 2004/1997)
- How to do Inquisitive Discourse (optimally Questions 2007)
- How to do Information Structure (multidimensionally Kamp 2010; L&P 2008; RoLaC 2004)
- How to do First Order Exchange (pragmatically JoLLI 2002; JoPr 2002; JoS 2001; ITALLC 1998)
- How to do "Many" (JoLLI 2015 §3.3)
- How to do "Only" (JoLLI 2015 §3.4; SALT 2001)
- How to do "Else" (Questions 2007; SUB 2003)
- How to do "Might" (AC2010)
- How to do Xena (JoLLI 2015 p. 103-6)
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Organization
I was the chair of the ESSLLI Standing Committee that coodinated the organization and programme of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information from 2007 till 2018.
- Sofia, 2018, with Darja Fiser (SC), Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov (OC) and Laura Kallmeyer (PC)
- Toulouse, 2017, with Laure Vieu (OC) and Shravan Vasishth (PC)
- Bolzano, 2016, with Diego Calvanese and Rafaella Bernardi (OC) and Claire Gardent (PC)
- Barcelona, 2015, with Louise McNally (OC), Gemma Boleda (OC/PC) and Achim Jung (PC)
- Tübingen, 2014, with Gerhard Jäger (OC) and Frank Veltman (PC)
- Düsseldorf, 2013, with Laura Kallmeyer (OC), Wiebke Petersen (OC/PC) and Johan Bos (PC)
- Opole, 2012, with Janusz Czelakowski and Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (OC) and Andreas Herzig (PC)
- Ljubljana, 2011, with Darja Fiser (OC) and Makoto Kanazawa (PC)
- Kopenhagen, 2010, Vincent Hendricks (OC) and Valentin Goranko (PC)
- Bordeaux, 2009, with Christian Retoré (OC) Richard Moot (OC/PC) and Uwe Mönnich (PC)
- Hamburg, 2008, with Benedikt Löwe (OC), Hans van Ditmarsch (OC/PC) and Rineke Verbrugge (PC)
I have been involved in the organization of the bi-annual Amsterdam Colloquium from 1991 onwards (as chair from the 10-th, 1995 till the 16-th, 2007), and in many other international conferences, workshops and events.
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Publications
2017
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2017). Live Meanings. In K. Balogh, & W. Petersen (Eds.), Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics (pp. 13--37). Düsseldorf University Press.
Dekker, P. J. E. (2017). Logical Conversions. South American Journal of Logic, 3(2), 195-223. http://www.sa-logic.org/sajl-v3-i2/paul-dekker-logical-conversions.pdf [details]
2016
- Dekker, P. (2016). Exclusively indexical deduction. Review of Symbolic Logic, 9(3), 603-637. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020316000125 [details]
- Dekker, P., & Zimmermann, T. E. (2016). Reference. In M. Aloni, & P. Dekker (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics (pp. 173-205). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236157.007 [details]
- Dekker, P., Aloni, M., & Groenendijk, J. (2016). Questions. In M. Aloni, & P. Dekker (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics (pp. 560-592). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236157.020 [details]
2015
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2015). Not Only Barbara. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 24(2), 95-129. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-015-9215-6 [details]
2014
- Dekker, P. (2014). The Live Principle of Compositionality. In D. Gutzmann, J. Köpping, & C. Meier (Eds.), Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation (pp. 45-84). (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface; Vol. 32). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004279377_004 [details]
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2014). Herakleitian Oppositions. In J-Y. Beziau, & K. Gan-Krzywiszynska (Eds.), New Dimensions of the Square of Opposition (Series Analytica). Muenchen: Philosophia Verlag.
2012
- Dekker, P. (2012). Presupposition. In G. Russell, & D. Graff Fara (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language (pp. 42-52). (Routledge Philosophy Companions). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781136594083/chapters/10.4324%2F9780203206966-11 [details]
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2012). Dynamic Semantics. (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; Vol. 91). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4869-9 [details]
- Dekker, P., & Zeijlstra, H. (2012). Concord and doubling phenomena: an introduction. Journal of Semantics, 29(3), 295-303. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffs004 [details]
2011
- Dekker, P. (2011). Dynamic Semantics. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, & P. Portner (Eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Vol. 1, pp. 923-945). (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft = Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; Vol. 33/1). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226614.923 [details]
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2011). Jigsaw Semantics. In Formal semantics and pragmatics. Discourse, context and models Manhattan (KS).
2010
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2010). Only If an Indefinite is Topical, the Pronoun Picks it Up. In Presuppositions and Discourse (Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface; No. 21). Bingley: Emerald.
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2010). There is something about Might. In M. Aloni, H. Bastiaanse, T. de Jager, & K. Schulz (Eds.), Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009 : revised selected papers (pp. 244-253). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 6042), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), (FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_25 [details]
2009
- Dekker, P. J. E. (2009). There is something about 'might'. In Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium, December 16-18, 2009: pre-proceedings (pp. 217-226). ILLC, University of Amsterdam. http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2009/uploaded_files/preproceedings.pdf [details]
2008
- Dekker, P. (2008). A multi-dimensional treatment of quantification in extraordinary English. Linguistics and Philosophy, 31(1), 101-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-008-9034-1 [details]
2007
- Dekker, P. (2007). Nobody (anything) else. In M. Aloni, A. Butler, & P. Dekker (Eds.), Questions in dynamic semantics (pp. 147-158). (Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface; No. 17). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Dekker, P. (2007). Optimal inquisitive discourse. In M. Aloni, A. Butler, & P. Dekker (Eds.), Questions in dynamic semantics (pp. 83-100). (Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface; No. 17). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Dekker, P., Aloni, M., & Butler, A. (2007). The semantics and pragmatics of questions. In M. Aloni, A. Butler, & P. Dekker (Eds.), Questions in dynamic semantics (pp. 1-40). (Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface; No. 17). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
2016
- Aloni, M., & Dekker, P. (Eds.) (2016). The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236157 [details]
2007
2006
- Dekker, P. J. E., & Zeijlstra, H. H. (2006). Concord Phenomena and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Malaga: ESSLLI. [details]
2005
- Dekker, P. J. E., & Franke, M. (2005). Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: ILLC / Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. [details]
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Dekker, P. J. E. (2017). Logical Conversions. South American Journal of Logic, 3(2), 195-223.