LOGOS Colloquium

Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & Institut Jean Nicod): ‘Beyond Dynamic Semantics’

In this talk Philippe Schlenker will suggest that the program of dynamic
semantics was ill-conceived, and that its main results (concerning
presuppositions and anaphora) can be derived within a more explanatory - and
more conservative- framework.

Tuesday June 5th 11.00-13.00

Sala Gran

Facultat de Filosofia – Montalegre 6-8, 4th floor, Barcelona

BW5 Non-Truth Conditional Aspects of Meaning

Tuesday June 5th

13.00  Registration

15.00  Welcome

15.10 Scott Soames (U. of Southern California) Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature ...

17.10 Coffee break

17.30 Isidora Stojanovic (Jean Nicod - CNRS) ‘Perhaps’ and ‘Surely’

18.40 Christopher Hom (Washington University) The Semantics of Racial Epithets

Wednesday June 6th

09.30 Christopher Potts (U. of Massachusetts) The Compositional Independence of Expressives

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Owen Greenhall (U. of Oslo) Pronouns and Conventional Implicature

13.00 Lunch break

15.00 Ingo Brigandt (U. of Alberta) Epistemic goal as aspect of meaning

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Reto Givel (Zurich U.) The Semantics of ‘Boche’

17.40 Jonathan Berg (U. of Haifa) What is said to be said

Thursday June 7th

09.30 Mark Richard (Tufts University) Attitudes and Epithets

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Steven Davis (Carleton U.) Satisfaction Conditions for Requests

13.00 Lunch Break

15.00 Bence Nanay (Syracuse/U. British Columbia) Compositionality without Conceptuality

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Teresa Marques (U. of Lisbon) Embedding Emotions

17.40 Richard Vallee (U. de Moncton) Conventional Implicature Revisited

20.30 Conference Dinner at l’Horiginal   

Friday June 8th

09.30 Timothy Williamson (Oxford University) 'Reference, Inference and the Semantics of Pejoratives'

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Arthur Sullivan (Memorial U. Newfoundland) The Kripke Test for Multiple Propositions

13.00 Lunch break

15.00 Stefano Predelli (U. of Nottingham) ‘Frankly’: Meaning, Character and Warrant Shifts

16.00 Coffee break 

16.30 Dale Jacquette (Penn State U.) Formal Criteria of Non-Truth-Functionality

17.40 M. Hoeltje & B. Schnieder (Hamburg) ‘Stress and Truth-Conditional Semantics’ 

18.10 Closure