7 / MENTAL PHENOMENA

Philosophy of linguistics

Course directors:

Peter Ludlow, University of Michigan, United States
Barry Crawford Smith, University of London, United Kingdom
Frances Egan, Rutgers University, United States
Dunja Jutronić, University of Split, Slovenia
Nenad Miščević, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Maribor, Croatia

Course description:

This is the seventh year of the course Philosophy of lingustics. There are a number of themes that are discussed every year like: What is the nature of languuage? Is langauge something material, physical, mental, sociatal or abstract? What kind of knowledge is the knowledge of language.? What is the relationship of language and mind?

At the directors meeting this year in Dubrovnik the directors were unanimous in the idea of inviting prof. Kent Bach (UCLA) to our next philosophy of linguistics conference to take place Sept. 5th to 9th, 2011. We decided to dedicate a day or two of the conference to his work. This work is central to a growing interest at our conferences in the "semantics-pragmatics" distinction. We would invite people to write papers about Ken Bach’s work. We are also pleased to announce that Kent Bach has accepted our invitation and will comment on the presented papers himself.

Course lecturers:

John Collins, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Michael Devitt, City University of New York, Graduate Center, United States
Kent Bach, San Francisco State University, United States
Barry Crawford Smith, University of London, United Kingdom

Work Schedule:

Monday Sept. 5th

9.30 – 11.00 Michael Glanzberg: Not all contextual parameters are alike

11.30 – 13. 00 Dean Pettit: Semantics without reference

Lunch 13.00 – 15.30

15.30 – 17.00 Jennifer Saul: Lying, Misleading and What is Said

17.30 – 19.00 Barry C Smith: What are you talking about?

Tuesday September 6th

Special Sessions on Kent Bach’s Philosophy of Language

9.30- 11.00 Michael Devitt : Good and Bad Bach?

11.30 – 13.00 Belen Soria and Esther Romero: Challenges to Bach’s pragmatics

15.30 – 17.00 Jeff King: Bach’s views on context

17.30 – 19.00 Isidora Stojanovic : Post-semantics: what it is and why it matters

Wednesday, Sept. 7th

Special Sessions on Kent Bach’s Philosophy of Language

9.30. – 11.00 John Collins: On weather reports

11.30 – 13.00 David Braun : An invariantist theory of 'might' might be right

15.30 – 17.00 Francois Recanati: Empty singular terms in the mental-file framework

17.30 – 19.00 Nenad Miscevic: Pejoratives and Literal Meaning

Thursday Sept. 8th

9.30 – 11.00 Axel Barcelo Aspeitia Color Antonyms

11.30 – 13.00 Fritz McDonald: Why Public Languages Exist

15.30 – 17.00

Martina Blecic: Convention and conversational implicature

Matias Gariazzo: Semantic Truth Relativism and Metaphysical Truth Relativism

17.30 – 19.00 Maria Serban: On receptor-notions of representation

Mirela Fuš : Transmitting de re thoughts

Friday, Sept. 9th Student Presentations

10.00 – 11.00 Alun Davies: Context and compositional content

11.00 – 12.00 Tamara Dobler: On systematicity and family-resemblance in Wittgenstein

12.30 – 13.30 Andrei Nasta: Auditor's economy: efficiency-constraints

on compositionality