28.2381, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Syntax/Israel

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Subject: 28.2381, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Syntax/Israel

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:52:07
From: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal [ebas at mail.huji.ac.il]
Subject: Linguistic Perspectives on Causation

Linguistic Perspectives on Causation 

Date: 28-Jun-2017 - 30-Jun-2017 
Location: Jerusalem, Israel 
Contact: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal 
Contact Email: causationconference at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://causalityconference.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop is concerned with understanding the relationships between the
discussions about causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics,
philosophy and psychology. Among other goals we will examine whether it is
possible to evaluate available philosophical approaches to causation, dealt in
the context of epistemology, metaphysics and in Philosophy of Science, against
the variety of linguistic phenomena ranging across dedicated morphemes,
prepositions, connectives and verbs. Similarly, we would like to consider
Psychological-Cognitive study of the perception of causal relations, in an
attempt to examine whether these analyses of the concept may give linguists
the tools to provide more nuanced analyses, and whether conversely insights
from linguistic work can benefit psychological and philosophical studies.

Some of the issues to be discussed depend on how philosophical questions are
embodied in linguistic phenomena, for instance:

Should causation be understood as a relation between events or propositions?
Can negative events/omissions participate in causal relations? Causation and
explanation; Causation as a transitive relation; necessary and sufficient
conditions for evaluating the relevant cause in a particular setting; the role
of norms in causal judgments and how it is formalized in linguistic
expressions.

Decomposition of the notion of causation into a counterfactual analyses vs. a
conception of causation as a semantic primitive. In this context, up for
debate is whether causation should be understood as a relation between two
events, or between individuals, or rather a relation between an agentive
individual and an event.

Other issues have as a starting point questions that particular linguistic
phenomena give rise to, for instance:

In what way morpho-syntactic differences shape or constrain the interpretative
properties of causation?
Are there familiar linguistic phenomena that receive a more adequate account
when they are understood to underlie a causal relation?

Wednesday 28/6

9:00-9:30 
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Nora Boneh and Arnon Levy, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Introductory remarks

9:30-10:15
Aynat Rubinstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Incorporated norms for causation

10:15-11:00
Georgie Statham, Polonsky Academy Fellow, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Causation and the normative

11:30-12:15
York Hagmayer, University of Göttingen
Thinking about causation – what did cognitive psychological research find?

12:15-13:00
Orly Shenker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Influence” – a physical account

14:30-15:15
Boris Kment, Princeton University
Counterfactual reasoning and causal dependence

15:15-16:00 Bridget Copley, CNRS
If conditionals are causal, causation is not propositional

16:30-17:15
Edit Doron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Causative Component of Locative and Psychological Verbs

17:15-18:00
Odelia Ahdout, Humboldt University & Ivy Sichel, UCSC/Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Causatives in Hebrew Object-Experiencer Nominalizations

Thursday 29/6

8:45-9:30 
Claudia Maienborn, University of Tübingen
Causation and Coercion: Towards a unified account of eventive and stative
causal modifiers

9:30-10:15
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal & Nora Boneh, Hebrew University of Jerusaelm
Negation, bi-eventivity and causation

10:15-11:00
Isabelle Charnavel, Harvard University
Linguistic perspective in causation

11:30-12:15
Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology
Communicating Causal Structure

12:15-13:00
Arnon Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Plea for Pragmatics

14:00-14:45
Malka Rappaport Hovav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Deconstructing the internal/external causation distinction

14:45-15:30
Fabienne Martin, University of Stuttgart
Necessary and sufficient conditions in lexical causative verbs

15:30-16:15
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Resultatives and causation

16:30-17:15
William Croft, University of New Mexico
Event causation and force dynamics in argument structure constructions

Friday 30/6

9:00-9:45 
Phillip Wolff, Emory University
Automated Methods for Identifying Causation in Verbs and the Large-Scale
Structure of the Lexicon

9:45-10:30
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Buffalo University
Why do we have the causal predicates we have?

11:00-11:45
Léa Nash, University of Paris 8/CNRS
Different dative causees

11:45-12:30
Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University
On special causatives

12:30-13:15
Jurgen Bohnemeyer, Buffalo University
Causality across languages: State of the art

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