Meaning Sciences Workshop 2
March 12-13, 2016
Howison Library
Moses Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, March 12
coffee
John MacFarlane
Vagueness as Indecision
chair: Seth Yalcin; first questions: Chris Barker, Michael Caie
lunch
Malte Willer
Free Choice for Simplification
chair: Fabrizio Cariani; first questions: Melissa Fusco, Wes Holliday
coffee
Jason Stanley
Cognitive Significance and the Nonuniformity Problem
relevant background papers: Constructing Meanings, 'Assertion' and Intentionality
chair: Brett Sherman; first questions: Dilip Ninan, Carlotta Pavese
refreshments
dinner at Berkeley Thai House
drinks
10am
1030am
1230pm
130pm
330pm
345pm
545pm
7pm
930pm
Sunday, March 13
coffee
Andrew Bacon
On the Semantics of Indicatives
chair: Michael Rieppel; first questions: Paolo Santorio, Will Starr
lunch
Valentine Hacquard
Grasping at Factivity
relevant background papers: Bootstrapping Attitudes, Three-year-olds' understanding of knows and thinks
chair: Alejandro Perez-Carballo; first question: Sarah Murray
coffee
Lisa Matthewson
On the (In)dependence of Tense and Modality
chair: Peter Jenks; first questions: Cleo Condoravdi, Amy Rose Deal
refreshments
10am
1010am
12pm
1pm
250pm
310pm
5pm
Participants
Ashley Atkins (Western Michigan University)
Andrew Bacon (University of Southern California)
Chris Barker (New York University)
Bob Beddor (Rutgers)
Michael Caie (Pittsburgh)
Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern)
Simon Charlow (Rutgers)
Nate Charlow (Toronto)
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford)
Sophia Dandelet (Berkeley)
Amy Rose Deal (Berkeley)
Melissa Fusco (Berkeley)
Ephraim Glick (St Andrews)
Simon Goldstein (Rutgers)
Gabe Greenberg (UCLA)
Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland)
Daniel Harris (Hunter)
Benj Hellie (Toronto)
Wes Holliday (Berkeley)
Thomas Icard (Stanford)
Peter Jenks (Berkeley)
Alex Kocurek (Berkeley)
Daniel Lassiter (Stanford)
John MacFarlane (Berkeley)
John Mackay (Wisconsin)
Matt Mandelkern (MIT)
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley)
Matt Moss (Columbia)
Sarah Murray (Cornell)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Ethan Nowak (Berkeley)
Carlotta Pavese (Duke)
Alejandro Perez-Carballo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Brian Rabern (Edinburgh)
Michael Rieppel (Syracuse)
Rachel Rudolph (Berkeley)
Paolo Santorio (Leeds)
James Shaw (Pittsburgh)
Brett Sherman (Rochester)
Jason Stanley (Yale)
Will Starr (Cornell)
Ken Taylor (Stanford)
Malte Willer (Chicago)
Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
This conference is partially supported by the departments of Linguistics and of Philosophy at Berkeley. Space is limited. To attend, you need to register.