Inquisitive semantics is a new semantic framework mainly intended forthe analysis of linguistic information exchange. Information exchangecan be seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitivesemantics provides a new formal notion of issues, which makes itpossible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis oflinguistic information exchange in a more refined and m…
his bibliography could never have been compiled without their solid research, critical questions, comments, suggestions, their unflaggingly strong support along the way, and, most importantly their friendship. They as well as other Dutch Spinoza scholars, like my Rotterdam colleagues Prof. Dr Wiep van Bunge and Prof. Dr Henri Krop, have always encourag…
Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable f igure. As an astronomer, he pioneered quantitative astrophysics and founded the renowned Astronomical Institute in Amsterdam that now carries his name. Before World War I, however, he was employed as a Marxist theorist by the Social Democratic Party of Germany, making him one of the leading intel-lectuals of international socialism. Beca…