27.88, Calls: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Semantics/Brazil

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Subject: 27.88, Calls: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Semantics/Brazil

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:49:36
From: André Bazzoni [andrebazzoni at gmail.com]
Subject: Mind, Language & Action | 'Quine Lectures' with John Searle

Full Title: Mind, Language & Action | 'Quine Lectures' with John Searle 
Short Title: MiLAct16 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 23-Sep-2016
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Contact Person: MiLAct16 Organizers
Meeting Email: milact2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/mindlanguageaction/ 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

Newton Fund Conference on the Philosophies of Mind, Language & Action
(MiLAct16)

Quine Lectures: John Searle (University of California, Berkeley)

Keynote Speakers:

Luiz Henrique Dutra (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
Michelle Montague (University of Texas, Austin)
Marco Ruffino (State University of Campinas)
Luiz Henrique L. dos Santos (University of Sao Paulo)
Galen Strawson (University of Texas, Austin)
José Zalabardo (University College London)

Tutorials:

André Bazzoni (University of Sao Paulo, University College London)
Galen Strawson (University of Texas, Austin)
José Zalabardo (University College London)

MiLAct16 is part of the Newton Fund project Mind, language and action:
Investigating the connections between the physical and human realities,
generously supported by the British Academy. Its principal aim is to bring
together philosophers working in the areas of Mind, Language and Action, as
well as in correlated fields such as Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, to
discuss the nature of the relationship between the physical and human
realities.

One central question that guides philosophical inquiry (and one that is
especially emphasized in the work of John Searle) is how the human reality
consisting of various complex organizations such as language and social
institutions is generated by the purely physical reality as described by the
natural sciences. How the human reality of thought, meaning and free will can
fit in a causally closed physical reality, in which purportedly only physical
causes can produce physical effects?

A number of traditional debates derive from such a crucial question. The
mind/body problem in its diverse formulations is essentially the problem of
how the apparently immaterial reality of thoughts and sensations can affect,
and be affected by, physical events. Similarly, certain theories of meaning
try to account for the capacity of purely physical sounds and inscriptions to
get people to perform all sorts of actions.

In the philosophy of language, some of the relevant figures to the present
proposal are the late Wittgenstein, Austin, Strawson, Grice and Searle, among
others. These philosophers contributed to moving the discussion away from a
purely abstract conception of meaning (e.g., Frege’s ‘third-realm’ of Sinn) by
emphasizing the role of human activity as a crucial component of linguistic
meaning. Wittgenstein’s lemma “meaning is use”, Austin/Searle’s notion of a
speech act, Strawson’s notion of speaker’s meaning, and Grice’s
intentionalistic views on meaning are examples of such a strategy. In his work
in the philosophy of action, Searle further attempted to reduce the reality of
human institutions to a particularly interesting kind of speech acts that he
called declarations.

This intellectual evolution thus paved the way to a fruitful research agenda
linking the human realities of mind, language and social institutions, to the
more fundamental and so to speak meaningless reality described by natural
sciences. This is the overall landscape in which the present project is
designed to fit in.

For further information contact milact2016 at gmail.com.
For updates check the MiLAct16 website:  https://sites.google.com/site/
mindlanguageaction/

Call for Papers:

We invite 1-page abstracts in any topic belonging to the philosophical areas
of Mind, Language and Action, as well as in correlated disciplines such as
Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience etc.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2016. 

Abstracts in PDF, Word or Latex should be emailed to milact2016 at gmail.com (see
detailed instructions here). Decisions by April 15. Contributions should be
suitable for a 30-minute presentation (including discussion).

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