Hans Kamp

Hans Kamp (born 1940) is a Dutch philosopher and linguist who introduced discourse representation theory in 1981, a framework in which the meaning of a text is built up as a structured representation rather than sentence by sentence. Born in Den Burg, he took his doctorate in philosophy at UCLA in 1968 under Richard Montague, with a dissertation on tense logic and linear order, and has taught at Cornell University, the University of London, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Stuttgart. His 1971 paper on the word now was an early use of double indexing in model-theoretic semantics. With Uwe Reyle he wrote From Discourse to Logic. He became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, and shared the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize with Irene Heim.