Workshop 'Actions, Products, and Propositional Content', Paris, March 12, 2011

[Arapinis Alexandra]

WORKSHOP 'ACTIONS, PRODUCTS AND PROPOSITIONAL CONTENT'

(In the context of the ANR-DFG project NOMINAL)
http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr/


Time: March 12, 2011
Place: IHPST, Grande salle, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris (metro Mabillon)


Description:

In 1912 the Polish philosopher K. Twardowski published a very interesting article 'Actions and Products' distinguishing between actions such as 'jumping', 'screaming', 'thinking', 'believing', and 'expecting' and their corresponding (physical or mental) products such as a 'jump', a 'scream', a 'thought', a 'belief', and an 'expectation'. A special case of that distinction is the distinction between 'judging' and (the historically important notion of) a 'judgment'. Only mental products and not actions can be true (beliefs, judgments) or fulfilled (expectations). The distinction between actions and products is of  great interest to both philosophers of language and linguists working on nominalizations. This workshop is about the philosophical distinction itself as well as related act-based conceptions of propositional content in early analytic philosophy as well as recent philosophy of language (as in the work of Hanks and Soames). It furthermore
 addresses the linguistic distinctions between corresponding types of nominalizations in natural languages.



Program:

10.00-11.00: Maria van der Schaar (Leiden University)
"The Act of Assertion and the Assertion Made"

11.00-11-15: Coffee break

11.15-12.15: Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
"Ontologies of Act-Based Conceptions of Sentential Content"

12.15-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-15.00: Elena Soare (Université Paris 8)
"Aspectual Distinctions Inside Event Nominals"

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.00: Per Martin-Löf (Stockholm University)
"On the Triple Action/Product/Propositional Content"

16.00-17.00: Alexandra Arapinis (IHPST, CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
"Truth-Bearers in Judgement Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives"

17.00-17.30: Discussion
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