Short Curriculum Vitae
Patrick Blackburn received his BA (major: philosophy, minor: mathematics) from the University
of Waikato, New Zealand, in 1981; his MSc (Logic and Scientific
Method) from the University of Sussex, England, in 1986; and his PhD
from the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland in 1990. He held an SERC (UK) Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Information Technology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Amsterdam
until 1992, and then worked until 1994 as a research associate at the
Philosophy Department of the University of Utrecht on the Netherlands
Research Council (NWO) funded project "Structural and Semantic
Parallels between Natural Language and Programming Languages". From
1994 until 2000 he was a lecturer at the Department of Computational
Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, and was
granted Habilitation there in January 2000. From December 2000 till August 2011 he was a "Directeur de Recherche" (Senior Research Scientist) at INRIA,
France's national organization for research in computer science. Since August 2011 he has been Professor of Formal Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark.
His research centers on logic and its applications in cognitive
science, computer science, and philosophy, with a special emphasis on
applications involving natural language (that is, ordinary human
language).
Patrick Blackburn has published more than 70 articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings. He wrote (with Maarten de Rijke and Yde Venema) the book Modal Logic which was published by Cambridge University Press in Spring 2001. He wrote (with Johan Bos) Representation and Inference for Natural Language: a First Course in Computational Semantics, published by CSLI publications in Spring 2005. The book Learn Prolog Now! (written with Johan Bos and Kristina Striegnitz) was published in Spring 2006 by College Publications; the online version, which has been available since 2001 is a popular resource used worldwide. The book was translated into French (by Hélène Manuélian) under the title Prolog, Tout de Suite!, and published in Autumn 2007 (again by College Publications). Patrick Blackburn is the joint editor (with Johan van Benthem and Frank Wolter) of the Handbook of Modal Logic, which was published by Elsevier in early 2007. Over 1200 pages long, and containing 21 articles by leading researchers. it is the definitive guide to modern modal logic.
Since 1989 he has been active in ESSLLI (the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information) as participant, lecturer, workshop organizer, program chair, member of the standing committee, and local organiser. He is currently a subject editor (Logic and Language) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic,
and Logique et Analyse. He was chief editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information from 2002 until 2010, an editor of the Review of Symbolic Logic from 2007 until 2011, an editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic from 2004 until 2007, an editor of of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information from 1997 until 2002, and a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics from 1995 until 1997. He is founder and past-president (1999-2007) of SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistic's Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics.
Patrick Blackburn has published more than 70 articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings. He wrote (with Maarten de Rijke and Yde Venema) the book Modal Logic which was published by Cambridge University Press in Spring 2001. He wrote (with Johan Bos) Representation and Inference for Natural Language: a First Course in Computational Semantics, published by CSLI publications in Spring 2005. The book Learn Prolog Now! (written with Johan Bos and Kristina Striegnitz) was published in Spring 2006 by College Publications; the online version, which has been available since 2001 is a popular resource used worldwide. The book was translated into French (by Hélène Manuélian) under the title Prolog, Tout de Suite!, and published in Autumn 2007 (again by College Publications). Patrick Blackburn is the joint editor (with Johan van Benthem and Frank Wolter) of the Handbook of Modal Logic, which was published by Elsevier in early 2007. Over 1200 pages long, and containing 21 articles by leading researchers. it is the definitive guide to modern modal logic.
Since 1989 he has been active in ESSLLI (the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information) as participant, lecturer, workshop organizer, program chair, member of the standing committee, and local organiser. He is currently a subject editor (Logic and Language) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic,
and Logique et Analyse. He was chief editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information from 2002 until 2010, an editor of the Review of Symbolic Logic from 2007 until 2011, an editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic from 2004 until 2007, an editor of of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information from 1997 until 2002, and a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics from 1995 until 1997. He is founder and past-president (1999-2007) of SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistic's Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics.