Michiel van Lambalgen
Michiel van Lambalgen (born 6 November 1954, Krimpen aan den IJssel) is a professor of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[1]
In the 1980s van Lambalgen did research in randomness,[2] and in set theory, where he developed a theory with a randomness predicate R(x) which had important consequences for Gödel's program of finding more primitive axioms from which statements like Axiom of Choice could be derived.[3] After some time felt the subject was "too abstract"[citation needed]. Then in the 1990s he moved to artificial intelligence, where he picked up the methodology for studying cognition. In 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Keith Stenning at the University of Edinburgh where he made contributions to the psychology of reasoning.[4] His research interests include philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, reasoning with uncertainty, the psychology of reasoning, and the cognitive semantics of natural language.[5]
Notes
- ^ See his web page Archived 2007-05-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Random sequences Archived 2006-05-29 at the Wayback Machine. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, 1987.
- ^ van Lambalgen, Michiel (1996). "Independence Structures in Set Theory", in: W. Hodges et al. (eds.) Logic: from Foundations to Applications (European Logic Colloquium), Oxford University Press.
- ^ See the interview with van Lambalgen in The Reasoner.
- ^ See his CV Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- Michael van Lambalgen's web page
- Prof. dr. M. van Lambalgen, 1954 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
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