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)


Register

This conference is partially supported by the departments of Linguistics and of Philosophy at Berkeley. Space is limited. To attend, you need to register.