Contact information:

1. +31 30 6917627 /  +31 6 12020311
   

2. joop.leo@phil.uu.nl
   

Research interests:

1. Metaphysics
   

2. Philosophical logic

In 2006, after graduating cum laude in philosophy, I obtained a PhD position at Utrecht University to do research on the metaphysical structure of relations. My training as a mathematician proved to be useful in dealing with this intriguing problem. The analysis resulted in a new theory of relations, which I called the polymorphic theory of relations. For my PhD research I worked closely with Kit Fine and Albert Visser. In 2008 I went to New York University for a short period as a visiting scholar, and in November 2010 I received my PhD.  In July 2012, I received a Veni grant from NWO to develop a new logic for reasoning in a natural way about ‘real’ relations, like the love relation.

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