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News: April/May 2024

Philosophy faces closure at Univ. of Kent • Museum of Philosophy displays fake news • Test case for ‘protected beliefs’ — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Schock Announcement

Irene Heim
Photo: Philipp Heim-Antolin

The Rolf Schock Prizes for achievements in mathematics, philosophy, art and music have been awarded at irregular intervals of between one and three years since 1993 by the Swedish Royal Academies. The prizes, which include a cash award of 600,000 Swedish krona (around £60,000), are named after the Swedish philosopher and logician Rolf Schock who died in 1986. This year’s philosophy prize was jointly awarded to Hans Kamp, of the University of Stuttgart, and Irene Heim, from MIT, “for the (mutually independent) conception and early development of dynamic semantics for natural language.” The press release of the Academy explains: “Natural languages are highly context-dependent – how a sentence is interpreted often depends on the situation, but also on what has been uttered before… Around 1980, Hans Kamp and Irene Heim each separately developed very similar solutions to this problem.

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