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Michael Morreau (PhD, Amsterdam) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He works mainly in Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Language, but has also worked in Artificial Intelligence. He has written on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, most recently on vagueness, as well as on theoretical and practical reasoning. He has received grants from the Army Research Laboratories and from the National Science Foundation. Before coming to Maryland, Morreau worked at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (IMS) in Stuttgart, Germany; he has since held visiting positions there, at Bar Ilan University, and at the University of Amsterdam. E-mail: mimo@umd.edu Representative Publications"What Vague Objects Are Like," The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 99, no. 7 (2002): 333-361. "Fitting Words: Vague Language in Context," Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 23 no. 6 (2000): 577-597. (Co-authored with Alice Kyburg). "Other Things Being Equal," Philosophical Studies, vol. 96, no. 2 (1999): 163-81. "Supervaluation can leave truth-value gaps after all," The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 96, no. 10 (1999), 148-56. "Syntactical treatments of propositional attitudes," Artificial Intelligence, vol. 105 (1998): 289-337 (Co-authored with Sarit Kraus). "Fainthearted conditionals," The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 94, no. 4 (1997): 187-211. "Reasons to think and act," In Donald Nute (ed.), Defeasible Deontic Logic (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997), 139-158. "Prima facie and Seeming Duties," Studia Logica, vol. 57 (1996): 47-71. "Allowed Arguments," in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (San Mateo Ca.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1995) 2, 1466-72. "What some generic sentences mean," in G. Carlson and J. Pelletier (eds.), The Generic Book (Chicago: University Press, 1995), 300-38. (Co-authored Nicholas Asher). "Epistemic semantics for counterfactuals," Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 21 (1992): 33-62. |