19.3088, Confs: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/Italy

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Date: 09-Oct-2008
From: Alexandra Arapinis < alexandra.arapinis at wanadoo.fr >
Subject: Propositions: Ontology, Semantics, and Pragmatics

 

	
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:43:53
From: Alexandra Arapinis [alexandra.arapinis at wanadoo.fr]
Subject: Propositions: Ontology, Semantics, and Pragmatics 

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Propositions: Ontology, Semantics, and Pragmatics 

Date: 17-Nov-2008 - 19-Nov-2008 
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact: Alexandra Arapinis 
Meeting URL:
http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr/index.php/visiteur/activite/afficher/activite/66 

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

Meeting Description: 

Jointly organized by the Center of the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) (Oslo,
Norway), the Chaire d'Excellence 'Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure'
(Paris, France), and the Department of Linguistics of the University of Venice
(Venice, Italy).

Congress Hall,
Ca'Foscari Palace - Dorsoduro 3246
Venice

Keynote Speakers:
Herman Cappelen (University of St Andrews (UK) and CSMN (Norway))
Denis Delfitto (University of Verona (Italy))
James Higginbotham (USC (USA))
Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University (USA))
Friederike Moltmann (IHPST(CNRS/Paris1/ENS) (France)) 

Propositions: Ontology, Semantics, and Pragmatics

Congress Hall,
Ca'Foscari Palace - Dorsoduro 3246
Venice

November 17-18-19, 2008

Full Program:

Monday, November 17

15:00    
Matteo Plebani
''Why There Are No Mathematical Propositions''

15:40   
Coffee Break

16:00    
Bjorn Jespersen
''How Hyper are Hyperpropositions?''

16:40    
Coffee Break

17:00    
James Higginbotham
''Sentences, Thoughts, Anaphora''

Tuesday, November 18

10:00    
Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore
''Keeping It Minimal''

11:00    
Coffee Break

11:20    
Francesco Berto
''Impossible Propositions''

12 :00   
Dale Jacquette
''Ontology of Propositions and Logically Possible Worlds''

12:40   
 Lunch Break

15:00   
 Vittorio Morato
''World Stories and Maximality''

15:40    
Coffee Break

16:00    
Andreas Stokke
''Descriptive Uses of Indexicals as Implicatures''

16:40    
Coffee Break

17:00    
Friederike Moltmann
''Propositional Objects''

Wedensday, November 19

10:00    
Denis Delfitto
''For a Propositional Treatment of Self-Knowledge: the Role of Grammar''

11:00    
Coffee Break

11:20      
Asier Alcazar & Mario Saltarelli
''A Minimalist Return to the Abstract Performative Hypothesis''

12 :00     
Richard Vallée
''''We''-Utterances and Multipropositionalism''

12:40    
Lunch Break

15:00    
Alain Lecomte & Myriam Quatrini
''Ludics and Semantics: Paraproofs as Meanings''

15:40    
Coffee Break

16:00    Marco Santambrogio
''What Is a Contradiction?''







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