Upcoming workshops
Past workshops
Variables and the (Meta)semantics of Context-Sensitivity
Universität Wien, 24–25 September 2019
Speakers:
- Daniel Büring (Wien)
- Michael Glanzberg (Chicago)
- Emanuel Viebahn (Berlin)
- Karen Lewis (New York)
- Poppy Mankowitz (Lisbon)
- Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt)
- Sarah Zobel (Tübingen/Oslo)
Venue:
Universität Wien
NIG
Universitätsstrasse 7
Room 2i, 2nd floor
1010 Wien
The venue is accessible by elevator. We are committed to hosting an accessible event.
Contact: dirk.kindermann@univie.ac.at
Context-sensitivity and logical consequence
3-5 June 2019, University of Bonn
International Centre for Philosophy
Poppelsdorfer Allee 28
53113 Bonn
Speakers:
Filippo Ferrari/Sebastiano Moruzzi (Bonn/Bologna)
Daniel Gutzmann (Cologne)
Kristina Liefke (Frankfurt)
Stefano Pugnaghi (Bonn)
Gillian Russell (Chapel Hill)
Erik Stei (Bonn)
Pilar Terrés Villalonga (Barcelona)
Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt)
Schedule:
Tuesday, 4th
09:30 – 11:00 Daniel Gutzmann: “Multicontexts”
11:15 – 12:45 Kristina Liefke: “Reasoning with an (Experiential) Attitude: contextual inference relations between same-type attitude reports”
14:30 – 16:00 Stefano Pugnaghi: “The philosophical significance of LD-validity”
16:15 – 17:45 Gillian Russell: “Social Spheres: Logic, Ranking, and Subordination” 19:30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 5th
09:30 – 11:00 Erik Stei: “Truth in all contexts? Pluralist semantics and context-sensitivity”
11:15 – 12:45 Pilar Terrés: “The different senses of “and”: substructural logics and pragmatic enrichment”
14:30 – 16:00 Filippo Ferrari/Sebastiano Moruzzi: “Logical anti-exceptionalism and logical normativity”
16:15 – 17:45 Ede Zimmermann: tba.
Belief in Context
5-7 February 2019, University of Hamburg
Contact: alexander.dinges@uni-hamburg.de
Venue:
University of Hamburg
ESA W 221
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Speakers:
- Hannes Leitgeb (München)
- Roger Clarke (Belfast)
- Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
- Peter Baumann (Swarthmore)
- Liz Jackson (Notre Dame)
- Katalin Farkas (CEU)
- Andrew Moon (Virginia Commonwealth University)
- Orin Percus (Nantes)
Program:
Thursday, February 7th
3:00-4:30 Liz Jackson: “On the independence of belief and credence”
5:00-6:30 Roger Clarke: “Context-sensitivity and non-occurrent belief”
Friday, February 8th
9:30-11:00 Hannes Leitgeb: “The partition-sensitivity of belief”
11:30-1:00 Orin Percus: “Res-marking – the package deal”
1:00-3:00 Lunch
3:00-4:30 Katalin Farkas: “Understanding yourself and knowing what you believe”
5:00-6:30 Jennifer Nagel: “The first contexts of belief attribution”
Saturday, February 9th
9:30-11:00 Andrew Moon: “Belief without confidence”
11:30-1:00 Peter Baumann: “Belief and knowledge”
Additional support from the DFG projects “The semantics and pragmatics of knowledge claims” and “Knowledge and decision” is gratefully acknowledged.
The (meta)semantics of context-sensitivity and ambiguity
October 1–2, 2018, Humboldt University of Berlin
Speakers:
Annie Bosse (University of Cambridge)
Alexander Dinges (Hamburg University)
Katharina Felka (Uppsala University/University of Graz)
Alex Radulescu (University of Missouri Columbia)
Una Stojnic (Columbia University)
Erik Stei (Bonn University)
Agustin Vicente (Ikerbasque Foundation of Science)
Emanuel Viebahn (University of Zurich/HU Berlin)
Julia Zakkou (FU Berlin)
Attendance is free, but space is limited. If you intend to come, please register by emailing emanuel.viebahn at hu-berlin.de.
Provisional schedule
Monday, October 1st
10:15 – 11:45 Agustin Vicente: Polysemy and co-predication: a rich meanings account
11:45 – 12:00 coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Alexander Dinges and Julia Zakkou (work-in-progress talk)
13:00 – 14:30 lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Alex Radulescu: Token-Reflexivity and Its Answering Machine Problem
16:00 – 16:30 coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Emanuel Viebahn: Co-predication, polysemy and property-inheritance
Tuesday, October 2nd
10:15 – 11:45 Una Stojnic
11:45 – 12:00 coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Erik Stei (work-in-progress talk): Semantic Implementations of Logical Pluralism
13:00 – 14:30 lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Annie Bosse: Generics and truth-variability
16:00 – 16:30 coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Katharina Felka: On expressing non-cognitive attitudes
Subjective Language
Berlin, 13-14 November 2017
Contact: Hazel Pearson
Speakers:
Lisa Bylinina (Leiden)
Alexander Dinges (Hamburg)
Daniel Gutzmann (Köln)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Frank Sode (Göttingen)
Stephanie Solt (ZAS)
Carla Umbach (ZAS)
Malte Willer (Chicago)
Julia Zakkou (Hamburg/Freie Universität Berlin)
Schedule:
| Monday, November 13 | |
| 10 am – 11.30 am | Carla Umbach “The fixed component of relative predicates“ |
| 11.30 am – 11.45 am | coffee break |
| 11.45 am – 1.15 pm | Dilip Ninan “Easy Foreknowledge“ |
| 1.15 pm – 2.45 pm | lunch break |
| 2.45 pm – 4.15 pm | Lisa Bylinina “On the linguistic landscape of subjectivity“ |
| 4.15 pm – 4.30 pm | coffee break |
| 4.30 pm – 5.15 pm | Hazel Pearson “Predicates of personal taste and the de se – similarities and differences” (work in progress talk) |
| 5.15 pm – 6 pm | Frank Sode – “Talking about the best of all possible worlds” (work in progress talk) |
| 7.30 pm | Conference dinner: Casalot (location) |
| Tuesday, November 14 | |
| 10 am – 11.30 am | Stephanie Solt “Diagnosing two sources of subjectivity“ |
| 11.30 am – 11.45 am | coffee break |
| 11.45 am – 1.15 pm | Alexander Dinges & Julia Zakkou “A direction effect on taste predicates“ |
| 1.15 pm – 2.45 pm | lunch break |
| 2.45 pm – 3.30 pm | Daniel Gutzmann – “How to get your faultlessness and disagree, too. Towards a multidimensional approach of taste predicates” (work in progress talk) |
| 3.45 pm – 5.15 pm | Malte Willer “Evidence, Attitudes, and Counterstance Contingency: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Subjective Meaning“ |
Location:
ZAS Berlin (directions)
Room 308 (the Trajekteraum, 3rd floor)
Schützenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
Additional support from the Leibniz-Centrum für Allgemeine Sprachwisseschaft, and from the DFG projects ‘Expressing similarity II: German equative comparison’ and ‘Degree Attenuators: Attenuating polarity items in the degree domain’ is gratefully acknowledged.
What contexts can and cannot do
Hamburg, 7-8 April 2017
Contact: Julia Zakkou
Speakers:
Claudia Bianchi
Daniel Gutzmann
Dirk Kindermann
Jeff King
Craige Roberts
Andreas Stokke
Emanuel Viebahn
Location:
Hauptgebäude, AS Saal
Universität Hamburg
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Schedule:
| Friday, April 7 | |
| 10 am – 11.30 am | Craige Roberts: “Indexicality: Center and Perspective“ |
| 11.30 am – 11.45 am | coffee break |
| 11.45 am – 1.15 pm | Dirk Kindermann: “Knowledge & Anaphora” |
| 1.15 pm – 2.45 pm | lunch break |
| 2.45 pm – 4.15 pm | Daniel Gutzmann: “How you can (and can’t) update contexts” |
| 4.15 pm – 4.30 pm | coffee break |
| 4.30 pm – 6 pm | Andreas Stokke |
| Conference dinner: 8 pm, Balutschi | |
| Saturday, April 8 | |
| 10 am – 11.30 am | Jeff King |
| 11.30 am – 11.45 am | coffee break |
| 11.45 am – 1.15 pm | Emanuel Viebahn: “Selecting Meanings” |
| 1.15 pm – 2.45 pm | lunch break |
| 2.45 pm – 4.15 pm | Claudia Bianchi: “The Context of Hate“ |
Find us on the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar: http://baal.org.uk/slxevents.html.
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