Official Blog of the University of Chicago Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2009
Our very own Nat Hansen (Philosophy) will presenting at the workshop this week, Friday November 6, 2009. As usual, the meeting will take place from 11am-1pm in the seminar room of the Karen Landahl Center (Social Sciences basement). Title and abstract below:
“A Slugfest of Intuitions: Contextualism and Experimental Design”
Evidence for contextualism consists of intuitions generated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
Peter Klecha, a graduate student in Linguistics, will present at the workshop this Friday October 23 at 11am in the Landahl Center (Social Sciences 004). Title and abstract below:
“The Meaning of Predictions”
A long-contested issue has been whether future terms like “will” are modals or simple tenses. Most recently, Kissine (2008) has argued “will” to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
François Recanati (CNRS, Paris) will be giving a series of talks at the University of Chicago during the week of November 9-13, 2009. The talks on November 9-11 will each be held at 4.30 pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities (Regenstein Library). The fourth talk will be part of the Workshop on Perspectival [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
Robin Jeshion (Department of Philosophy, UC Riverside) will be giving a talk on Thursday October 15 at 6pm in Cobb 115 (*NOTE special time, date and place*).
Title: “Singular Thought: Names, Descriptions, and Discourse Representation Theory”
Abstract: “I will discuss the semantic and cognitive roles that names and descriptions play in initiating and sustaining singular thought about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2009
Welcome back, linguists and philosophers. We have a number of exciting events in the works for this quarter, centered around our theme for this year, “Contextualism.” Here are some of the preliminary details:
- Robin Jeshion (UC Riverside) Thursday October 15 @ 6pm (note special time)
- Workshop on Perspectival Thought, Thursday and Friday November [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2009
Here’s a quick recap of workshops we’ve held that never got advertised here:
Winter Quarter:
January 30, 2009. Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern). “Unconditionals are Conditionals”
February 13, 2009. Itamar Francez. “Making it implicit: The dynamics of context sensitivity in existentials”
February 20, 2009. Aidan Gray. “What do Alfreds have in common?”
February 27, 2009. Chris Kennedy. “On ‘Average’ ”
March 6, 2009. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2008
On Dec 5 from 11:00am-1:00pm in the Landahl Linguistics Research Center, Sara Bosworth – a graduate student in the Philosophy Department – will give a presentation entitled “Meaning Internalism and Content Externalism”.
See you there.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2008
This Friday Nov 21, from 11:00am-1:00pm, the Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language will host a talk from Delia Graff Fara (Dept of Philosophy, Princeton University). The talk is entitled: “De-re Modality: Identity Theory versus Counterpart Theory”: the abstract is below. It will talk place in the Landahl Linguistics Research Center, which is in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2008
On Nov 14th from 11:00am-1:20pm in the Landahl Linguistics Research Center , Nat Hansen will present a paper called “Color adjectives and Radical Contextualism”.
The meeting will be a special joint meeting with the Wittgenstein Workshop
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
On Friday Oct 24th, Paul Portner (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University) will present to the workshop from 11:00am-1:00pm in the Landahl Linguistics Research Center (in the basement of Social Sciences). The title and abstract for the talk are below.
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