Filip Buekens is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. He studied linguistics and philosophy at the universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Cologne (Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1991 on the philosophy of language and mind of the late Donald Davidson, on whose work he has published widely. His primary research interests lie in the interface of semantics and pragmatics, compositionality, truth-conditional semantics and Gricean reasoning about meaning. He (sometimes) defends a position known as minimal semantics. He has also published on analytic metaphysics (identity, explanations, concepts, and formal ontologies in medicine) and has written two books on the foundations of analytic philosophy and the nature of reference. He is currently working on a long-term project on the metaphysical nature of experiences (provisional title: Anomalous Monism and Experiences) and plans to do more research on the structure, content and value of the concept of truth in our manifest image of the world. For more information, visit his webpage.

Stephan Hartmann is Chair in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science. He was formerly Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. From 2002-2005, he directed the research group Philosophy, Probability and Modeling at the University of Konstanz. His primary research and teaching areas are general philosophy of science, formal epistemology, philosophy of physics, and social choice theory. Hartmann published numerous articles and the book Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens) that appeared in 2003 with Oxford University Press. His current research interests include formal social epistemology, probabilities in physics, and methodological questions regarding the use of mathematics and statistics in the social sciences. For more information, visit his webpage.

Reinhard Muskens is an Associate Professor of Logic and Linguistic Analysis in the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. His primary interest is in logic and in applications of logic to linguistic theory and human information processing. How do linguistic expressions manage to carry meaning? How can logic be used to model aspects of context and social interaction? What are the typically logical aspects of epistemic reasoning? And, most importantly, what consequences do the requirements of these applied areas have for the formal design of our logics? Muskens has been at Tilburg University since 1988, but he has also done teaching and research during one or more semesters at the department of Computational Linguistics of the Universität des Saarlandes (1996-1997), at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung in Stuttgart (1998-1999), at the Linguistics Department of Stanford University (2000), and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Bordeaux (2006-2007). He is a Senior Staff Member of the Dutch Research School in Logic (OZSL) and a Participating Researcher in the Nijmegen Centre for Semantics. For more information, including a list of downloadable publications, visit his webpage.

Marie Nilsenová is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. She studied linguistics and philosophy at the Charles University (Czech Republic), the University of Washington, the University of Tromsoe (Norway) and the University of Amsterdam. Prior to becoming a Ph.D. candidate, she worked as a language engineer in text-to-speech synthesis. In 2005, she was a visiting researcher at the IRIT in Toulouse, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled Rises and Falls: Studies in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation. In her thesis, she suggested that particular intonation contours can be treated as modal operators. Her teaching areas include the use of information technology in organizations, non-verbal communication and methodological problems of the social sciences. Her primary research interests concern the semantic and pragmatic effects of auditive prosody. For more information, visit her webpage.

Eric Pacuit is a resident fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Eric received his Ph.D. in computer science from the The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before arriving in Tilburg, Eric was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam and in the Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science at Stanford University. His postdoctoral research at the ILLC was funded by the Natural Science Foundation. Eric's primary research interests are in logic, game theory and formal epistemology. Currently, his research is focused on logics of rational agency and foundational issues in game theory and social choice theory. This research is supported by a Vidi grant from NWO called 'A Formal Analysis of Social Procedures' from 2009-2014. In addition, Eric has taught many courses on logic (especially modal logic) and formal epistemology. He will continue to teach here at Tilburg with research seminars and courses related to his research interests. For more information, visit his webpage.

Pieter Ruys is professor of Mathematical Economics, Tilburg University; fellow of the graduate school CentER, and co-founder of the executive master program Management of the Public and Non-profit Sector (MPM) in the TiasNimbas Business School, and of TILEC, the Tilburg Institute of Law and Economics. His research now focuses on formalizing economic governance between the government and the market, which requires a fundamental and innovative approach that embeds the neoclassical paradigm. Pieter recently published papers on this subject in a diversity of journals, such as Social Choice and Welfare, Annals of Finance, Health Policy, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Economic Theory, which papers have a basic framework in common. For more information, visit his webpage.

Jan Sprenger joins us as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in September 2008. He is currently doing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Professor Andreas Bartels. In 2005, he completed his studies in mathematics, computer science and philosophy with a German diploma (equivalent to a M.Sc.), writing his thesis on interacting particle systems. Since fall 2005 he has been working on a PhD thesis about the foundations of inductive inference. The thesis compares and reviews several schools of statistical inference, e.g. Bayesianism, likelihoodism and frequentism and tries to connect these issues to philosophical confirmation theory. Moreover, the results are applied to problems of social choice as judgment aggregation, compromising and consensus making. Jan's primary research areas are in philosophy of science, formal epistemology and the philosophy of social sciences. That said, he has a vivid interest in philosophy of physics, general epistemology, philosophy of language and decision theory. For more information, visit his webpage.

Harrie de Swart has held positions in Nijmegen in the Department of Mathematics and in the Faculty of Philosophy and is since 1980 Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. During the academic year 1976/1977 he was a visiting fellow of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton University. His primary research and teaching interests are in logic, its interrelationships with mathematics, computer science, linguistics and philosophy, and more recently with social choice theory. Up until now he was the supervisor of 16 Ph.D.-students working on topics ranging from automated theorem proving, databases, type theory, non-monotonic logic, independence-friendly logic, social choice theory, to argumentation. Together with two co-authors, he is currently writing a textbook on Elections and Coalition formation, to be published by Springer. For more information, visit his webpage.