Semantics and the Philosophy of Language

Workshop Info

Faculty Sponsor(s):
Chris Kennedy
Malte Willer
Student Coordinator(s):
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Time: Alternate Fridays, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., room TBD

The subject of meaning in natural language is currently investigated both by philosophers and linguists, with different foci, methods, and emphases. The two are typically guided by different concerns and goals (e.g., linguists are centrally concerned with patterns of cross-linguistic variation and language acquisition; philosophers investigate the normativity of language and the metaphysical presuppositions of particular theoretical claims), but both groups can profit from cross-disciplinary discussions and mutual understanding of their different questions, methods and results. The topic of the 2012-13 workshop will be “Vagueness.”

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