18.3053, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics,Philosophy of Lang,Semantics/France

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Date: 17-Oct-2007
From: Isidora Stojanovic < Isidora.Stojanovic at ens.fr >
Subject: Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity

 

	
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Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity 
Short Title: CPR-07 

Date: 09-Nov-2007 - 11-Nov-2007 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Isidora Stojanovic 
Contact Email: relativism2007 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.ugr.es/~nef/Perspective/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

Keynote speakers:

James Higginbotham (USC)
John MacFarlane (Berkeley)
John Perry (Stanford)
François Recanati (CNRS)
Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
Robert Stalnaker (MIT) 

Full list of speakers:

Brian Ball (Oxford University). Knowledge Ascriptions, Semantic Taxonomy, and
Stalnaker's Radical Contextualism.

Michael Blome-Tillman (University College. Oxford). Knowledge and presuppositions.

Lenny Clapp (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. UNAM) Is even thought
compositional?

Richard Dietz (IIF, UNAM & Arché, St. Andrews) & Julien Murzi (University of
Sheffield). Actuality in branching time.

Eyja Margrét Brynjarsdóttir (University of Iceland). Is relativity a requirement
for mind-dependence?

Urtzi Etxeberria (IKER-CNRS) & Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago).
Contextual restrictions and the definite determiner.

Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati). What Tipper is ready for.

Brendan S. Gillon (McGill University). The model theory for words with
context-sensitive implicit arguments.

James Higginbotham (USC). TBA

Mikhail Kissine (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Context relativism versus
circumstance of evaluations relativism.

Max Kölbel (University of Birmingham). Non-indexical contextualism and relativism.

Nikola Kompa (University of Muenster). Knowledge in context.

Dan López de Sa (New York University). Relativizing utterance-truth?

John MacFarlane (Berkeley). TBA

Luisa Marti (CASTL/Universitetet i Tromso). Context (in)sensitivity.

Jason Merchant (University of Chicago). Nonsententials and moderate contextualism.

Peter Pagin (Stockholm University) & Dag Westerstahl (Gothenburg University).
Quotation and the semantics of linguistic context.

Sally Parker Ryan (University of Sydney). Semantics, pragmatics and normative
constraints on meaning.






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