Philosophy of Information and Communication
Jun. -Prof. Dr. Kristina Liefke
Research interest
My research investigates the philosophical interplay of information and communication. In particular, I am working on a formal, empirically motivated account of how word meaning, communicative context, and agents’ information interact in the determination of mental attitude content (esp. memory and imagination content).
Research areas:
- Philosophy of language | Philosophy of information
- Formal semantics & pragmatics | Logic
- Ontology
Topics:
- Experiential attitudes
- Information-sensitivity | Situated interpretation
- Non-propositional information content
- Natural language ontology
What is Philosophy of Information & Communication?
Methods
- formal semantic modelling
- linguistic analysis
- (intensional) logic
- experimental philosophy of language
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