Philosophy of Linguistics and Language, Interuniversity Center Dubrovnik, Sept. 4th – 8th, 2017
Monday Sept. 4th
9. 15 Welcome
9.30 – 11.00Una Stojnić: Vague Utterance in Context
11.00–11. 30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Simon Charlow: A modular theory of pronouns and binding.
13.00 – 15.30Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Alexis Wellwood: Comparatives and Number
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00 Bianco Cepolarro: Negative or Positive?: Theories of Reclamation
Tuesday, Sept. 5th
Special session on contextual parameters
9.30 - 11.00Peter Pagin: Shifting parameters and propositions.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 NenadMiščević: Parameters, Semantic or Pragmatic
13.00 – 15.30Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Derek Ball: Towards a Unified Backwards-Looking Metasemantics for Contextual Parameters and Standing Meanings”.
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00 Robert J. Stainton (with AndrewBotterell): Anscombe and ‘I’
Wednesday, Sept. 6th
9.30. – 11.00MalteWiller: Two Puzzles about AgentiveCan
11.00 –11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00Nate Charlow: Modal Inexpressibility
15.30– 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00Paolo Santorio: Conditional Excluded Middle in Informational Semantics
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00Valentine Hacquard: Learning what ‘must’and ‘can’ must and canmean
Thursday Sept. 7th
Including continued special session continued
9.30– 11.00 Paul Elbourne: Presupposition, Assertion, and Definite Descriptions
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00Michael Glanzberg: The Case for Indirect Metasemantics
13.00 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00Jeffrey C. King: Felicitous underspecification and updating
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00Stephen Neale: TBA
Friday, Sept. 8th
9.30 – 11.00Martina Blečić: The intention to implicate
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Chris Barker: Scope Islands, How and Why?
Closing of the conference
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Course Directors:
Barry Smith, Institute of Philosophy, London
Frances Egan, Rutgers, USA
Jeffrey King, Rutgers, USA
Michael Glanzberg, Northwestern University, USA
DunjaJutronić, University of Split, Croatia
NenadMiščević, University of Maribor, Slovenia