Spring 2010
- April 2 – Judith Tonhauser (Linguistics, OSU) “Temporal anaphora of noun phrases”
- April 16 – Yaron McNabb (UChicago) “Toward a combined syntactic and semantic account of degree expressions”
- May 14 – Dan Sperber (Institut Nicod, Paris) “The myth of scalar implicatures”
- May 21 – Tim Grinsell (UChicago) “Inertia worlds and problems of causation for the semantics of the progressive”
- May 28 – Elena Castroviejo Miró (UChicago) “An analysis of ‘so’ that is not ‘enough’”
- June 4 – Matt Teichman (UChicago) “Casting Slurs”
Winter 2010
- January 29 – Kai von Fintel (Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT) ”The Subjectivity of Conditionals in a New Light”
- February 19 – Chris Kennedy (Linguistics, U Chicago) ”Where does relativity come from?”
- February 26 – Magdalena Schwager (University of Göttingen) ”Imperatives as moody modals”
- March 5 – Craige Roberts (Linguistics, OSU) ”RETRIEVABILITY and Definite Noun Phrases”
- March 8 – Ryan Bochnak (U Chicago) ”Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase”
- March 12 – Valentine Hacquard (Linguistics, Maryland) ”Context, events, and the interpretation of modals”
Autumn 2009
- October 15, 2009 – Robin Jeshion (Dept. of Philosophy, UC Riverside) “Singuar Thought: Names, Descriptions, and Discourse Representation Theory” (6pm)
- October 23, 2009 – Peter Klecha (Graduate Student, Linguistics) “The Meaning of Predictions”
- November 6, 2009 – Nat Hansen (Graduate Student, Philosophy) “A Slugfest of Intuitions: Contextualism and Experimental Design”
- November 9-11, 2009 – François Recanati (CNRS, Paris) (4.30 pm, Franke Institute for the Humanities)
- November 12-13, 2009 – Workshop on Perspectival Thought (Franke Institute for the Humanities)
Spring 2009
April 3, 2009. Palle Leth. “Predicate Terms in Context”
April 24, 2009. Tommy Grano. “English embedding verbs and the semantics of nonfinite complementation”
May 1, 2009. Peter Hylton (UIC). “The Idea of a Logically Perfect Language in Analytic Philosophy” (joint meeting with Wittgenstein Workshop)
May 22, 2009. Gillian Russell (Washington University). “Necessity and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”
May 29, 2009. Jasmin Urban. “Open questions, modality and truth relativity”
June 5, 2009. Angelika Kratzer (Massachussetts). “Epistemic modality and context dependency”
Winter 2009
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. Thony Gillies (Michigan). “Iffiness”
Autumn 2008
- Oct 24. Paul Portner (Dept of Linguistics, Georgetown University). Scales of Probability
- Nov 14. Nat Hansen (Grad. Student, Dept of Philosophy, University of Chicago). Color adjectives and Radical Contextualism
- Nov 21. Delia Graff Fara. (Dept of Philosophy, Princeton University). De-re Modality: Identity Theory versus Counterpart Theory
- Dec 5. Sara Bosworth (Grad. Student, Dept of Philosophy University of Chicago). “Meaning Internalism and Content Externalism”
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Spring 2007
Spring quarter meetings will be held on Fridays, 11am – 1pm, in Classics 47.
Winter 2007
Winter quarter meetings will be held on Fridays, 11am – 1pm, Cobb 119.
Fall 2006
Fall quarter meetings will be held Wednesdays, 4pm-6pm.
- October 3: Organizational meeting
- October 17: E-type pronouns and donkey anaphora
Evans, G (1980) ‘Pronouns’
Evans, G (1977) ‘Pronouns, quantifiers and relative clauses (I)’
Evans, G (1977) ‘Pronouns, quantifiers and relative clauses (II)’
- October 24: Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
Perspectives on Possibilities: Contextualism, Relativism, or What?
Background reading
Lasersohn, P (2005) ‘Predicates of Personal Taste’
MacFarlane, J (2006) ‘Epistemic Modals Are Assessment Sensitive’
- November 7: Dynamic models of anaphora
Heim, I. (1983) ‘File change semantics and the familiarity theory of definiteness’
King, J (2006) ‘Context dependent quantifiers and donkey anaphora’
- November 17: Jeff King, USC
- November 28: Nat Hansen, Chicago
Wittgensteinian Contextualism
Background reading
Searle, J (1983) ‘The Background’ in Intentionality, Cambridge University Press.
Travis, C (2001) ‘The Making of Sematnic Fact’ in The Uses of Sense, Oxford University Press.
