CONFERENCE: RECENT RESEARCH IN SEMANTICS
IN HONOUR OF ERNIE LEPORE
October 17 - 19, 2003
We are pleased to invite you to a Conference on Recent Research in
Semantics in honour of Ernie Lepore, to be held at Carleton University
(Ottawa, Canada). The conference in being organized by the Cognitive
Science Programme and the Philosophy Department at Carleton.
The conference keynote address will be delivered by Ernie Lepore.
We are delighted to welcome Donald Davidson as a special guest.
Plenary: Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), "Context and Compositionality"
Invited Speakers:
Michael Glanzberg (MIT) & Susanna Siegel (Harvard),"Presupposition and
Policing in Complex Demonstratives"
Robert May (UC-Irvine), "How Many Senses?"
Mark Richard (Tufts), "Quotation"
Emma Borg (University of Reading), "The Role of Mental Content in
Linguistic Meaning"
Matthew Stone (Rutgers), "Intention Recognition in Accommodating
Standards for Vague Scalar Adjectives
Ernie Lepore & Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), "Mood Matters"
Kent Johnson (UC-Irvine), "Do we actually understand the meanings of our
sentences?"
Tim Kenyon (Waterloo), "Horse-shoes, hand-grenades, and
conversational pragmatics"
Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland, College Park), "Semantics and
(Innocent)Second-Order Logical Forms"
For further information contact Steven Davis at
davis@connect.carleton.ca or see the conference web page at
http://www.carleton.ca/iis/Conference/index.html
-- Robert J. Stainton Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science Carleton University Ottawa
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