Katrin Schulz
– curriculum vitae –
personal
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Katrin Schulz
24th of July, 1976
Berlin-Buch, former GDR
German
Address:
Department of Humanities (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam
Oude Turfmarkt 141-147
1012 GC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31.20.5254887
[email protected]
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Science Park 904
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31.20.5254531
academic program
[2002 - 2007]
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[2002-2003]
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[1999 - 2002]
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Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), NL.
Ph.D. program in linguistics,
2 November, 2007,
Prof. Dr. F. Veltman,
Dr. P. Dekker,
Minimal Models in Semantics and Pragmatics. Free Choice,
Exhaustivity, and Conditionals.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), NL.
Master’s program in logic,
Logic and language,
Prof. Dr. F. Veltman,
Master of Science in Logic (Honors),
You may read it now or later. A case study on the paradox
of free choice permission.
Modal Logic, Game Theory, Universal Algebra, Intensional
and dynamic semantics, Rationality, Logic and cognition,
Capita selecta semantics.
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), D.
Computational linguistics (Diplom),
Logic and semantics,
Mathematics (algebra),
Dr. R. Bäuerle,
Diplom-Linguistin (Honors),
Relevanz und Quantity Implikaturen.
Logic II, Logic III, Semantics II, Semantics III, Algorithmic
Semantics, Parsing, Algorithmic Syntax, etc. .
Technische Universität Berlin, D.
General linguistics (Magister Atrium),
Mathematics,
passed Zwischenprüfung (examination after the first half of
the M.A. program), final grade: excellent (A).
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[1997 - 1999]
Program:
Minor:
Degree:
Technische Universität Berlin, D.
Mathematics (Diplom),
Philosophy (philosophy of mathematics),
passed Vordiplomprüfung (examination after the first half of
the Diplom program), final grade: excellent (A).
[1996 - 1997]
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Technische Universität Berlin, D.
Communicational sciences (Diplom).
[1991 - 1996]
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Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, Berlin, D.
High school,
Mathematics, physics,
Abitur (highschool diploma).
additional professional qualifications
[2010]
[2013]
[2016]
BKO (didactic basisqualification), UvA.
FGw-accessor for the BKO (Basis Qualificatie Onderwijs).
SKO (didactic senior qualification), UvA.
current positions
[2014 - ]
Employer:
programme director of the BA philosophy.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, NL.
[2013 - ]
Employer:
universitair docent 1 (UD1).
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, NL.
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previous positions
[2013 - 2014]
Employer:
head of teaching of the department of philosophy.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, NL.
[2011 - 2014]
Employer:
Principle Investigator of a Veni grant
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), NL.
The semantic anatomy of conditional sentences,
NWO Veni.
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Project type :
[2008 - 2013]
Employer:
universitair docent 2 (UD2).
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, NL.
[2007 - 2008]
Employer:
post-doc researcher.
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), NL.
Indefinites and beyond,
NWO Vidi,
Dr. M. Aloni.
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[2002 - 2007]
Employer:
assistent in opleiding (AiO).
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), NL.
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fellowships and awards
[2012]
[2011-2014]
[2011]
[2009]
[2009]
[2008]
[2002]
[2002]
[1997-2002]
gratification of the Department of Philosophy, UvA for the
contribution in the reorganisation of the BA program and
the investment in the teaching at the department.
VENI grant for the project The semantic anatomy of conditional sentences by the NWO (Nederlands Organisatie voor
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek).
FGw onderwijsprijs voor een BA vak for the course Logische
Analyse.
grant for the Grassroot project Logica Wiki as part of the
Grassrootsplan Docentenprofessionalisering of the Faculty of
Humanities, University of Amsterdam.
visiting scholar, Rutgers University, NJ, 2 months.
LOT publieksprijs for the dissertation Minimal models in
semantics and pragmatics.
full scholarship for graduates from the Studienstiftung des
deutschen Volkes.
award from Freunde der Universität Stuttgart for extraordinary achievements in the Diplom thesis.
full scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen
Volkes.
supervision experience
• co-supervisor of Angelika Port, Ph.D. student in the project Indefinites
and beyond. Project leader: Dr. M. Aloni. Promotor: Prof. Dr. J.
Groenendijk. 2008 - 2012.
• co-supervisor of Riccardo Pinosio. Ph.D. student. Promotor: Prof. Dr.
M. van Lambalgen. 2015 – .
teaching activities
• [before 2008]
at the UvA
– Natural language semantics, BA Philosophy, 2nd semester
2007/2008. together with M. Aloni.
– TA: Logica voor MIK, BA Medicine Technology, 1st semester
2004/2005.
– TA: Formal Pragmatics, MA Master of Logic, 1st semester
2003/2004.
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elsewhere
– Exhaustivity and relevance questions. 1 day (120 minuts)
guest lecture for the course Questions and beyond, taught by Maria
Aloni M. Aloni, LOT winterschool, Tilburg, Januari 2008.
– Exhaustivity. 2 days (2 times 90 minuts) compact seminar for the
Sonderforschungsbereich Informationsstrukturen, Universität Potsdam, 10.-11. December, 2004.
• [2008 - 2015]
– Logica en de linguistic turn (2008-2012). Propedeuse Philosophy. Coordination. administration, planning, organisation
and management of the course; consisting of 6 groups taught by 6
different lecturers.
– Logica en de linguistic turn (2008-2016). 1st semester.
Propedeuse Wijsbegeerte. 14 weeks, 2h + 3h each week.
– Logische Analyse (2008-2010, 2016). 1st semester. BA
Wijsbegeerte. 14 weeks 2 × 2h per week. In 2016 switch to 8
weeks 2 × 3h per week.
– Indefinites and Beyond (2008). 1st semester.
Master of Logic. (together with Maria Aloni)
Project.
– Causality and Explanation (2015-2016) 8 week master class
on causality, together with Robert van Rooij.
– Logic, Information Flow and Argumentation (2016) 1st year
obligatory course at the Amsterdam University College, 14 weeks,
2 × 2h each week.
– Guest lectures in: Philosophical Logic, Master of Logic. (20082015) 3h Master college on conditional sentences.
elsewhere
– Conditionals (master course in Arche StAndrews, Philosophical
Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysica and Epistomology), May, 2011.
– Compositional Semantics for Conditional Sentences, at European Summerschool for Language, Logic and Information (ESSLLI), Lubliana, 2011
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organisation/management
organization of scientific meetings
• together with P. Dekker, M. Franke, J. Groenendijk, R. van Rooij, M.
Veldhuisen co-organizer of the fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. December 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• organizer of the workshop Recent developments in the semantics of conditional sentences, November 2nd, 2007, Amsterdam
• together with M. Aloni, P. Dekker, P. van Ormondt and I. van Loon coorganizer of the seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium. December 2009,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• together with G. van Donselaar, P. Pekelharing co-organizer of the fallschool 2012 of the Dutch onderzoeksschool wijsbegeerte.
institutional responsibilities
• 2008-2013 staff member of the board of studies of the department of
philosophy, 2011-2013 vice chairwoman.
• in 2010 coordinator the tutor program of the BA Philosophy.
• 2012-2013 contact person BA teaching for the capaciteitsgroep Logic and
Language.
• 2013-2014 head of teaching of the department of philosophy.
• since 2014 programme director BA Philosophy.
In this function and as head of teaching I have been part of various
committees on departmental and faculty level .
commissions of trust
• associate editor of the journal Semantics & Pragmatics, 2011-2015.
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publications
articles in journals (peer reviewed)
1. Schulz, K. (2015) ‘Conditionals from a linguistic point of view: Two case
studies’. Journal of Philosophical Logic, published online.
2. Schulz, K. (2014) ‘Minimal models vs. logic programming: the case of
counterfactual conditionals’. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics,
24(1-2): 153-68.
3. Schulz, K. (2014). ‘Fake Tense in Conditional Sentences. A Modal
Approach’. Natural Language Semantics, 22(2): 117-144.
4. Schulz, K. (2011)‘If you’d wiggled A, then B would’ve changed. Causality and counterfactual conditionals’. Synthese, 179(2): 239-251.
5. Schulz, K. and R. van Rooij (2006). Pragmatic meaning and nonmonotonic reasoning: the case of exhaustive interpretation. Linguistics
and Philosophy, 29(2): 205 - 250.
6. Schulz, K. (2005). A pragmatic solution for the paradox of free choice
permission. Synthese: Knowledge, Rationality and Action, 147(2): 343
- 377.
7. Rooij, R.A.M. van and K. Schulz (2004). Exhaustive interpretation of
complex sentences. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, 13:
491 - 519.
articles in books (peer reviewed)
1. Rooij, R. van and K. Schulz (2014) ‘A question for priority’. in E. McCready (Ed.), Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics. Springer.
2. Rooij, R. van and K. Schulz (2014) ‘Topic, focus, and exhaustive interpretation’. In Chungmin Lee (Ed.), Contrastiveness and/or Scalar
Implicatures. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers.
3. Rooij, R. van and K. Schulz (2010). ‘Non-monotonicity in linguistics.
Recent developments’. In: Handbook of Logic and Language, as supplement to chapter 14 ‘Nonmonotonicity in linguistics’, by R. Thomason.
Elsevier.
4. Rooij, R. van and K. Schulz (2007). Only. Meaning and Implicature. In:
M. Aloni, A. Butler, P. Dekker (eds.), Questions in dynamic semantics,
CRiSPI. pp: 193-224.
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articles in proceedings
1. Schulz, K. (2010).‘Conditionals from top to bottom’. In: Proceedings of
Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna, Austria.
2. Schulz, K. (2008).‘Non-deictic tenses in conditionals’ . In: Proceedings
of the 14th SALT conference. Amherst, USA.
3. Schulz, K. (2007).‘Dynamic laws and counterfactual reasoning’. In: Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4. Schulz, K. (2007).‘Past and perfect as semantically vacuous mood markers’. In: Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
5. Rooij, R. van and K. Schulz (2005). ‘Only’: meaning and implicature.
The very incomplete short version’. In: Proceedings Sinn und Bedeutung
9. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
monographs
1. Minimal Models in Semantics and Pragmatics. Free Choice, Exhaustivity, and Conditionals, (2007). Dissertation. Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
presentations
conference presentations (peer reviewed)
1. ‘Fake tense as structural metaphor’ (november 2010). 1st ‘Fall Meeting
on Formal Linguistics : Language(s) and Cognition, University of Paris
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2. together with A. Aguilar, M. Aloni, A. Port, and R. Simik: Free Choice
Items as Fossils. (february 2010), At the Arbeitsgruppe Indefiniteness Crosslinguistically, DGfS-Jahrestagung 2010, Humboldt Universitt
Berlin, Germany.
3. ‘Tense and mood in conditional sentences’ (july, 2008). The 18th International Congress of Linguistics. Seoul, Korea.
4. ‘Non-deictic tenses in conditionals’ (april, 2008). Journées Sémantique
& Modélisation 2008. Toulouse, France.
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5. ‘Non-deictic tenses in conditionals’ (march, 2008). The 14th conference
of semantics and linguistic theory (SALT). Amherst, USA.
6. ‘Dynamic laws and counterfactual reasoning’ (december, 2007). The
16th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
7. ‘Past and perfect as semantically vacuous mood markers’ (december,
2007). The 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, Workshop on Uninterpretability. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
8. ‘Extending Grice’ (with R. van Rooij, april 2007). Journées Sémantique
& Modélisation 2007. UMR7023 CNRS & Université Paris 8 Vincennes/StDenis, France.
9. ‘ Only: meaning and implicature’ (with R. van Rooij, november 2004).
Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 9. Radboud-Universiteit, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands.
10. ‘Approaching the logic of exhaustive interpretation’ (july 2004). Sixth
conference on logic and the foundations of game and decision theory
(LOFT 6). Universität Leipzig, Germany.
11. ‘Zimmermann trifft Gazdar: Ein neuer Angriff auf das Problem des
Auswahlprinzips’ (october 2003). Sinn und Bedeutung 8. Universität
Frankfurt, Germany.
12. ‘Exhaustification’ (with R. van Rooij, january 2003). The 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics. Tilburg, The Netherlands.
invited talks (colloquia, conferences, workshops)
1. (june 2015) The Hamburger Case. On how to account for counterfactuals
- again, workshop with Stephen Yablo, ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
2. (july 2013) Modeling counterfactuals using logic programming, EPLC
workshop, TU Dresden.
3. (august 2012) Minimal models with three-valued logic, invited talk for
the workshop on Three-valued Logics and their Applications at ESSLLI
2012, Opole, Poland.
4. (june 2012) Conditionals. From linguistics to philosophy, invited talk for
the theoretical philosophy group at the University of Utrecht.
5. (april 2012) Conditionals. From linguistics to philsophy, invited talk for
the Grolog colloquium at the University of Gronningen.
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6. (april 2012) Fake Tense in compositional semantics, invited talk for the
Cross-linguistic semantics groep, University of Amsterdam.
7. (januari 2012) What do, should and can if-clauses implicate?, invited talk
for the workshop on conversational implicatures, Radboud University
Nijmegen.
8. (januari 2012) The semantic anatomy of conditional sentences, ILLC
New Year’s talks, University of Amsterdam.
9. (may 2011) , invited talk for PALMYR: Paris Amsterdam meeting of
young researchers.
10. (march 2011) The semantic anatomy of conditional sentence, invited talk
for The 12th Szklarska Poreba Workshop: ”Ambiguity in Language and
the Process of Disambiguation”.
11. (june 2010) From Linguistics to Philosophy and back again: themeaning
of conditional sentences. workshop on conditionals. Invited by an ANR
funded project on hypothetical reasoning (directed by M. Bourdeau),
Paris, France.
12. (march 2010) Together with M. Aoni, invited for a workshop entitled
Exploring weak (in)definites across languages by the Weak Referentiality
project led by Henriette de Swart and Martin Everaert, Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
13. (september 2009). 14th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB). Wien, Austria.
14. (may 2009). Causal conditionals the revised version. Department of
linguistics, New York University, USA.
15. (april 2009). Tense in conditional sentence. 2 guest lectures. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University. New Jersey, USA.
16. (april 2009). Rutgers Semantics Workshop 2009. New York, USA.
17. ‘ “If you wiggle A, then B will change” Causality and the meaning of
conditional sentences.’ (september 2008), E.W. Beth Symphosium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
18. ‘Causality in conditional reasoning’ (june 2008), Workshop Annäherungen
zur Kausalität in Philosophie und Linguistik. Stuttgart, Germany.
19. ‘Formalizing pragmatics and free choice permission’ (february 2008). Institutscolloquium, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS).
Stuttgart, Germany.
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20. ‘Causal laws and conditional reasoning’ (november 2007). Workshop
Recent developments in the semantics of conditional sentences. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
21. ‘Tense in would-conditionals’ (june 2006). Nijmegen Semantics Colloquium. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
22. ‘Pragmatic meaning and non-monotonic reasoning: the case of exhaustive interpretation’ (with R. van Rooij, august 2004). Semantikernetzwerk, 1st meeting. Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany.
23. ‘Approaching the logic of conversational implicatures’ (june 2004). ILLCDay 2 “Language”. Universität Bonn, Germany.
24. ‘Exhaustification as preferred meaning’ (with R. van Rooij, march 2004).
LUSH. Universiteit Utrecht, Niederlande.
reviewing
editorial work
• associate editor of the journal Semantics & Pragmatics, 2011-2015.
reviewing project proposals
• National Science Foundation, 2011.
reviewing for journals
• Journal of Logic, Language, and Information.
• Journal of Semantics.
• Journal of Natural Language Semantics.
• Linguistics & Philosophy.
• Lingua.
• Cognitive Science.
reviewing books
• Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, book series, Springer.
reviewing for conferences
• SALT, SuB, ESSLLI student session, GLOW.
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