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Organization: Tilburg School of Humanities

Location: Tilburg, Netherlands

Field: Cultural studies

Requirements:

You have a Master's degree in linguistics, logic, philosophy of language, artificial intelligence, or a related field.- You have excellent writing skills and a good command of English.- You have proven research abilities.- You look forward to working in an interdisciplinary research team.- You have experience in logic and in formal semantics or in computational semantics in the logical tradition.- You are strongly motivated to complete a PhD thesis within four years.

Abstract:

The title of the PhD project is "Natural Logic and Linguistic Semantics". Individuals are encouraged to apply who have an interest in logical and computational theories of ordinary reasoning and linguistic semantics and who want to investigate these topics in a proof-theoretic setting.

Description:

The position is part of the program "Towards Logics that Model Natural Reasoning", funded by a Free Competition grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and led by Reinhard Muskens. More information about this program and about the PhD project can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/tilnatlog.

Deadline: 15-04-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/schools/humanities/

Email: M.Baars@uvt.nl

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