18.3667, Calls: Pragmatics,Psycholing,Semantics/Germany; Semantics/France

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1)
Date: 06-Dec-2007
From: Udo Klein < udo.klein at ling.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference 

2)
Date: 06-Dec-2007
From: Alexandra Arapinis < alexandra.arapinis at wanadoo.fr >
Subject: Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:49:37
From: Udo Klein [udo.klein at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference
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Full Title: 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference 
Short Title: SuB13 

Date: 30-Sep-2008 - 02-Oct-2008
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Udo Klein
Meeting Email: sub13 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics;
Semantics 

Call Deadline: 13-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

The 13th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft
für Semantik, will take place from the 30th of September to the 2nd of October
2008 at the University of Stuttgart. 

The Department of Linguistics and the Department of Natural Language
Processing, University of Stuttgart, are pleased to announce the 13th
Sinn und Bedeutung Conference taking place from Tuesday, September 30,
through Thursday, October 2, 2008 at the University of Stuttgart.

The invited speakers are:

Gerhard Jäger (Bielefeld)
Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto)
Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh)
Claudia Maienborn (Tübingen)

We invite submissions devoted to natural language semantics, pragmatics,
the syntax-semantics interface, psycholinguistic studies related to
meaning, or the philosophy of language. 45 papers will be selected for
45 (35+10) minute presentations.

One person can submit at most one abstract as a sole author and one as
co-author. We will not accept abstracts that at the time of the
deadline have been published or accepted for publication.

Abstracts should be anonymous, in form of a PDF file, at most 2 pages in
length, including examples and references, using a 12 pt. font with 2.5
cm (or 1 inch) margins on all sides. We will use an online system for
submission. Please visit the conference website
(http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13) for further information.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: April 13, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2008
Conference dates: September 30 - October 2, 2008

If you have any problems with the submission interface, do not hesitate to send
us an e-mail at the following address:

sub13 at easychair.org

All other enquiries may be sent to the following address:

sub13 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

SuB13 is organised by Ljudmila Geist, Klaus von Heusinger, Hans Kamp, Udo Klein,
Fabienne Martin, Edgar Onea, Arndt Riester and Torgrim Solstad

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:49:44
From: Alexandra Arapinis [alexandra.arapinis at wanadoo.fr]
Subject: Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Full Title: Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics 

Date: 29-Feb-2008 - 01-Mar-2008
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Alexandra Arapinis

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 13-Jan-2008 

Meeting Description:

Joint Paris-Arché Workshop:

Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques,IHPST
(CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
Arché, The AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language,
Mathematics and Mind, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Internal Speakers:

Crispin Wright (Arché-StAndrews)
Jacques Dubucs IHPST (CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
Friederike Moltmann (CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
Paul McCallion (Arché-StAndrews)

The issue of the existence and nature of abstract objects has a long and
controversial history in philosophy. On the one hand, such objects - in
particular, numbers and sets - are apparently the subject matter of ordinary
mathematical thought, and seem to be indispensable to an account of mathematical
content. On the other hand, how can we come to refer to and know about such
objects, since we cannot interact causally with them? This issue naturally
extends to broader questions in general semantics. Can the intuitions deposited
in the semantics of ordinary language play a role in an explanation of reference
to abstract objects? To what extent can plural quantification provide an
'ontologically innocent' account of the matter?

This workshop aims at promoting interdisciplinary research on this topic at the
interface between semantics, ontology, and the philosophy of mathematics. 

We invite high-quality papers on the topic. Electronic submissions to the
following address are welcome:

alexandra.arapinis at malix.univ-paris1.fr

Please include your name and institutional affiliation in the body of the
e-mail, and attach an anonymous abstract of no more than two pages for
refereeing. Abstracts can be submitted in .doc, .rtf, .ps, or .pdf.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 31, 2008.

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