Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science

Research Students


Dominik Klein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied mathematics, philosphy and scandinavian studies at the Friedrich-Wilmhelms University Bonn, Germany. He graduated from there in 2010 with a diploma thesis on the application of forcing techniques from mathematical logic to the field of algebra. His primary interests are formal logic, game theory, voting theory and social choice theory.

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Kristina Liefke is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy and linguistics at Christian Albrecht University (CAU) at Kiel, Germany, and the University of California at Los Angeles. She graduated from CAU in 2009 with a Master's thesis on the semantics of natural language predicative expressions. Her primary areas of interest include intensional semantics, logic, and formal epistemology. Her research focuses on the construction of intensional models for the representation of epistemic objects.

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Chiara Lisciandra is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy, and attended a two-years Master Program in philosophy at San Raffaele University in Milan. Chiara was also visiting student at the Albert-Ludwig Universität in Freiburg in Germany. After her Master Degree, she worked at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, where she did research on social epistemology and participated in an interdisciplinary project at the interface of philosophy, cognitive science and the social sciences. Her main interests focus on epistemology, philosophy of the social sciences, and on the literature at the intersection between economics, cognitive psychology and philosophy.

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Carlo Martini is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied philosophy and ethics at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). He was visiting student at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) from fall 2004 to spring 2005 and at the University of California Los Angeles (CA) from fall 2006 to spring 2007. In 2007 he wrote his master thesis on the implications of Kenneth Arrow's famous impossibility theorem in social choice theory. His primary interests are in the philosophy of economics and in the application of theories of decision to economics and the social sciences. For more information, visit his webpage.

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Sven Storms is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied mathematics and physics at the Catholic University of Leuven and theology at the Sint-Janscentrum in 's-Hertogenbosch before gaining his M.A. in philosophy at Tilburg University. His research concerns foundations and philosophy of mathematics, proof theory and formal truth theory.

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Dorette van der Tholen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on questions about meta-philosophy. Her primary interest concerns methodological issues concerning analytic epistemology and epistemological contextualism in particular.

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Sander Voerman is a Ph.D. student in Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He received his M.A. in philosophy in 2006 at Tilburg University. In the spring of 2007 he has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside. He is primarily interested in the understanding of personhood, free agency and moral normativity, especially using concepts and insights from the philosophy of mind. He has been awarded a four-year grant from NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) to continue his research on these matters and to explore interdisciplinary connections to behavioural science and mental health research. He is generally interested in naturalistic and/or pragmatistic approaches within the philosophy of psychology, and has published about intertheoretic reductionism. For more information, visit his webpage.

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Stefan Wintein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied econometrics and philosophy at Tilburg University and graduated cum laude in both disciplines. In econometrics, his master thesis was in cooperative game theory while his master thesis in philosophy was concerned with the rationality assumptions in non cooperative game theory. After working in business for some time, he decided to return to academia to write a graduate thesis. In this thesis he develops a framework, called assertoric semantics, to (primarily) deal with languages of self-referential truth. Philosophically, assertoric semantics is inspired by Brandom's slogan that in doing semantics ``correctness of inference should prevail over correctness of representation''. Cashing out this slogan formally, an elegant account of (self-referential) truth emerges that differs substantially from the accounts found in the contemporary literature.

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