Maria D. Aloni (born 1969) is an Italian

logician 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 premises ...

and

philosopher of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, the ...

, interested in formal semantics and the development of forms of logic that can capture the deviations of human reasoning from classical logic. She is an associate professor in the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

Faculty of Humanities, affiliated there with the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.

Education and career

Aloni was born in 1969 in Milan, and studied with Italian philosophers

Andrea Bonomi Andrea Bonomi (; 14 February 1923 – 26 November 2003) was an Italian Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football), defender. Early life Born in Cassano d'Adda, Italy, when Bonomi was six years old, he fell ...

and Gennaro Chierchia. She completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2001, advised by

Jeroen Groenendijk Jeroen Antonius Gerardus Groenendijk (; born 20 July 1949, Amsterdam), is a Dutch logician, linguist and philosopher, working on philosophy of language, formal semantics, pragmatics. Groenendijk wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Martin Sto ...

and Paul J. E. Dekker. She stayed on at the University of Amsterdam as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, also working for a year as a postdoctoral fellow at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. In 2012 she became an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, and in 2018 she was promoted to associate professor.

Book

With Paul Dekker, Aloni is co-editor of ''The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics'' (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Recognition

Aloni was the 2002 winner of the

E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the ''E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize'', named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Informat ...

of the

Association for Logic, Language and Information The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) is an international, especially European, learned society. It was founded in 1991 "to advance the practicing of research and education on the interfaces between Logic, Linguistics, Comp ...

. She was elected to the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

in 2020.

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