Michiel van Lambalgen (born 6 November 1954, Krimpen aan den IJssel) is a professor of

Logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

and Cognitive Science at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Department of Philosophy,

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in the

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. In the 1980s van Lambalgen did research in randomness, but after some time felt the subject was "too abstract". Then in the 1990s he moved to

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

, where he picked up the methodology for studying cognition. In 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Keith Stenning at the

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where he learned about the

psychology of reasoning The psychology of reasoning (also known as the cognitive science of reasoning) is the study of how people reason, often broadly defined as the process of drawing conclusions to inform how people solve problems and make decisions. It overlaps w ...

. His research interests include philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, reasoning with uncertainty, the psychology of reasoning, and the cognitive semantics of natural language.Se
his CV
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Michael van Lambalgen's web pageProf. dr. M. van Lambalgen, 1954 -
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