Daniel Vanderveken
Full professor
University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières ,
Department of Philosophy,
Trois-Rivières,(Quebec)
Canada G9A 5H7
Office 4043, Pavillon Ringuet
Phone (819) 379-8942
Fax (819) 373-1988
Email: daniel.vanderveken@uqtr.ca
Full member of the International Institute of Philosophy and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science.
RESEARCH AREA:
Philosophy of language, action and mind, philosophy of science,
semiotics,
pragmatics, discourse analysis, philosophical and mathematical
logic, universal grammar and artificial intelligence.
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:
Speech act theory, the logic of action and of attitudes, illocutionary and intensional logics, formal semantics and pragmatics of natural languages and epistemology of human sciences.
MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED EDITED BOOK
Actions, Rationalité & Décision - Actions, Rationality & Decision, with Denis Fisette (co-ed.), in the series Cahiers de Logique et d'Épistémologie, Volume 6, College Publications, London, 2008. [ Informations]
Logic, Thought and Action, in Springer's series Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science, 2005.[ Informations and on line order form ]
WORK IN PROGRESS
I am presently writing the last draft of two books:
Propositions, Truth and Thought Contributions to Philosophical Logic
and
Communication in Discourse Principles of Semantics and Pragmatics.
A collection of recently published papers Speech Acts in Dialogue will soon appear.
PUBLICATIONS :
«Towards a Formal Pragmatics of Discourse» forthcoming in the Proceedings of the International Colloquium Logic and Dialogue held at Grenoble (France) in November 2002.
«Belief and Desire A Logical Analysis» forthcoming in the Proceedings of the International Colloquium Computers and Philosophy held at Laval (France) in May 2006.
With Candida de Sousa Melo «Universals in Dialogue» forthcoming in the Proceedings of the International Colloquium Logic and Dialogue.
«A General Logic of Propositional Attitudes» in C. Dégrémont, L. Keiff & H. Rückert (eds.) Dialogues, Logics and Other Strange Things Essays in Honour of Shahid Rahman, Volume 7 of the series Tributes of College Publications, London, p. 449-483, 2008.
« Truth, Belief and Certainty in Epistemic Logic » in E. Maier, C. Bary and J. Huitink (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, p 489-506, 2005.
« Success, Satisfaction and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics », in S. Davis and B. Gillan (eds), Semantics - A Reader , Oxford University Press, p 710-734, 2004.
« Propositional Identity, Truth According to Predication and Strong Implication With a Predicative Formulation of Modal Logic », in D. Vanderveken (ed) Logic, Thought and Action, Springer, p 185-216, 2005
« Attempt, Success and Action Generation: A Logical Study of Intentional Action », in D. Vanderveken (ed) Logic, Thought and Action, p 316-342, op cit
« Universal Grammar and Speech Act Theory », in D. Vanderveken & S. Kubo (eds) Essays in Speech Act Theory, P&n ns 77, John Benjamins, p 25-62, 2002. [ Blurb and contents, online order form ] [ Downloadable leaflet and order form (PDF) ]
« Illocutionary Logic and Discourse Typology » in special issue 216 (edited by D. Vanderveken) Searle with his Replies of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, p 243-255, 2001.[ Contents ]
«Formal Pragmatics of Non Literal Meaning», in the special issue (edited by E. Rolf) Pragmatik de Linguistische Berichte, Vol 8, p 324-341, 1997. [ PDF Article ]
Meaning and Speech Acts, Volume 1: Principles of Language Use, 244 pages, Volume 2: Formal Semantics of Success and Satisfaction , 196 pages, Cambridge University Press, 1990-1991, 2009.[ Blurb ; Volume 1 Contents ; Volume 2 Contents ]
with John R. Searle, Foundations of Illocutionary Logic, Cambridge University Press, 228 pages, 1985, 2009. [ Preface and Contents ]
RESEARCH GROUPS, COLLABORATION AND COOPERATION AGREEMENTS
I am responsible for two Quebec research teams working on
Universal Grammar and the Logic of Discourse : towards a
Computational Theory of Communication and Action Coordination
(research
grant of the Quebec Research Council on Society and Culture) and
Speech Acts in Dialogue
(research grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).
Several philosophers, logicians, computer scientists, linguists and
psychologists of other countries collaborate to research projects: John
Searle (Berkeley), Marc Dominicy and Paul Gochet (Brussels), Frans van Eemeren (Amsterdam), Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki), Francis
Jacques and J.-P. Desclés (Paris), Denis Vernant (Grenoble), Alain Trognon (Nancy), Nuel
Belnap (Pittsburgh), Susumu Kubo (Matsuyama), S. Rahman (Lille) and Jacques Virbel
(Toulouse). Certain official cooperation agreements have been signed with
foreign institutes such as the department of logic of Lødz (Poland), the
Nancy Research Laboratory on Human Interaction (France) and the
Center of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science of Campinas (Brasil), etc.
In order to announce and discuss work in progress, I have organized with
collaborators international interdisciplinary conferences such as the colloquia Language, Thought, Action at Quebec city during ACFAS conference in May 2008,
Attitudes and Actions in Discourse at Trois-Rivières during ACFAS
conference in May 2007,
Logic & Dialogue
at Grenoble (France)
October 29-31, 2002 [
Programme (PDF)
];
Action, Attitudes & Decision
at
Trois-Rivières, October 3-5, 2002 [
Programme (PDF)
], the
Decade Langage,
Raison, Pensée - Language, Reason, Thought
at Cerisy-la-Salle (France) in
June 1994 and the
International Meeting on Language, Logic &
Artificial Intelligence
at Fortaleza (Brasil) in July 1998.
COMPLETE CURRICULUM VITAE
REVIEW OF MY WORK
OTHER PAPERS IN PDF
« On the Logical Form of Elementary Illocutionary Acts » Chapter 4 of Principles of Language Use.
With K. MacQueen « Lexical Analysis of English Performative Verbs » Chapter 6 of Principles of Language Use.
With Searle: Speech Acts and Illocutionary Logic (chap. 1 of Foundations of Illocutionary Logic) reedited in Logic, Thought and Action.
Searle on Meaning and Action in G. Grewendorf & G. Meggle (eds) Speech Acts, Mind and Social Reality: Discussions with Searle, Kluwer, 2002.