b. 1966
Robert van Rooy (also published as Robert van Rooij) is a contemporary Dutch logician and philosopher of language at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. His work bridges formal semantics, pragmatics, and game theory, with particular focus on signaling games, vagueness, and the role of rationality in linguistic interpretation.
Advanced game-theoretic approaches to pragmatics and implicature
Developed formal analyses of vagueness and comparatives
Contributed to signaling game models of meaning and communication
Published extensively on questions, answers, and relevance in semantics
Co-authored influential work on measurement-theoretic semantics