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Richmond Thomason

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy/philosophy of language
language/linguistics

Summary

American logician who contributed to formal pragmatics, worked with Richard Montague on intensional logic, and has worked on logics of belief.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the development of Montague grammar and intensional logic for natural language semantics. Formal pragmatics: a logical account of conversational implicature and speech acts. Contributed to the logic of nonmonotonic reasoning.

Notable Works & Achievements

A Model Theory for Propositional Attitudes

Accomodation, Meaning and Implicature

Historical Influences

Richard Montague

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Language Formal Semantics

Contemporaries & Peers

Richard Montague Barbara Partee

Minds Influenced

Formal Semantics Research

Intellectual Posterity

Montague GrammarFormal Pragmatics

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