Professional interests and expertise

 
• Logic and formal semantics
• Update semantics
• Genericity and prototypes
• Lexical semantics and pragmatics
  
  
• Philosophy of Mind
• Integration of symbolic computation and connectionist principles
• Symbolic and connectionist architectures
• Embodiment
  
  
• Optimality theory and interpretation
• Grounding of optimality theory in connectionist networks
• Bidirectional optimality theory, evolutionary game theory, and language change
• Pragmatics and optimality theory

• Quantum cognition
  • Prototype semantics and bounded rationality
  • 2 qubit personality theory (C.G. Jung)
  • Relation between quantum theory and the semantics of questions and answers