Hans Kamp

Johan Anthony Willem Kamp ( born September 5, 1940 in Den Burg Texel ) (usually: Hans Kamp ) is a Dutch philosopher and linguist.

He studied physics and mathematics in 1958 at the University of Leiden, Holland ( BA degree, 1961). Then graduate studies followed in Amsterdam, where he became in 1965 a PhD in logic, foundations of mathematics and philosophy of the empirical sciences. There was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he earned with a thesis on Tense Logic and the Theory of Linear Order another title (PhD) in 1968. Subsequently, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, University College London, the University of Massachusetts and 1974-1984 at Bedford College, University of London, interrupted by a visiting professor at MIT and the University of Texas. In the summer of 1988, the University of Stuttgart he was appointed as Ordinary Professor of Formal Logic and Philosophy of Language at the Institute for Natural Language Processing.

Hans Kamp et al Founder of the discourse representation theory (DRT ).

In 1992, Kamp along with Barbara H. Partee, the Max Planck Research Award and the 1996 Jean Nicod Prize.