Conference Programme
5th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
MEANING, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE
7-9 August 2009, Riga, Latvia.
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FRIDAY 07.08.2009
10:00-10:30 Opening (Small Aula)
10.30-11.30 Public Opening Lecture
Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, USA
Title, TBA
Lunch
13.00-15.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Chair: Barry C. Smith, University of London, UK
Thomas Kroedel, University of Konstanz, Germany
Implicit Definition and the Application of Logic
Derek Ball, University of St-Andrews, Arche, UK
The Two-Dimensionalist Account of Meaning
Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University, US
Non-Factive Cognitivism in Semantic Theory
Room 6 Chair: Jody Azzouni, Tufts University, US
Asa Wikforss, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Semantic Competence and Belief
James Woodbridge, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US
The Fiction of What's Known in Understanding
Henry Jackman, York University, Canada
Inconsistency, Intuitions and Analysis
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Chair: Sandra Lapointe, University of Leipzig, Germany / CCSS, Latvia / Kansas State University, US
Corine Besson, University of Oxford, UK
Understanding the Logical Constants and Dispositions to Infer
Panu Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
The semantic realism/anti-realism dispute and knowledge of meanings
Room 6 Chair: Gurpreet Rattan, University of Toronto, Canada
Gregory Bochner, Université Libre de Bruxelles & Institut Jean Nicod, Belgium/ France
Reference and Knowledge of Reference
Antonio Rauti, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
How Use Theories of Meaning Can Accommodate Shared Meanings. A Modal Account of Semantic Deference.
Bradley Armour-Garb, State University New York, Albany, US
Understanding inconsistency theories
SATURDAY 08.08.2009
PLENARY SESSIONS
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
Chair: Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, US
10.00-11.00 Simon Blackburn, University of Cambidge, UK
Deflationism, Pluralism, Expressivism, Pragmatism
11.00-12.00 Peter Ludlow, Northwestern University, US
Cheap Contextualism, Meaning Underdetermination, and Truth
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Chair: Dean Pettit, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US
13.00-14.00 Barry C. Smith, University of London, UK
Inner and Outer Dimensions of Linguistic Capacity
14.00-15.00 Jody Azzouni, Tufts University, US
Semantic Individualism and Kripke's Wittgenstein
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
Chair: James Woodbridge, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US
15.30-16.30
Steven Gross, John Hopkins University, US
Do Kids Know What We Mean?
16.30-17.30
Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US
Inferential role and the ideal of deductive logic
17.30-18.30
Guy Longworth, University of Warwick, UK
Some models of linguistic understanding
SUNDAY 09.08.2009
PLENARY SESSIONS
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
Chair: Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge, UK
10.00-11.00
Stephen Schiffer, New York University, US
The effect of Vagueness on meaning
11.00-12.00
Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, US
Ryle on Knowing How
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Chair: Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University, US
13.00-14.00
Anthony Everett, University of Bristol, UK
What Hermeneutic Fictionalism Requires
14.00-15.00
Dean Pettit, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US
The Psychology and Epistemology of Speech Comprehension
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
Chair: Guy Longworth, University of Warwick, UK
15.30-16.30
Gurpreet Rattan, University of Toronto, Canada
Truth, Inc.
16.30-17.30
Mitch Green, University of Virginia, US
Language Understanding and Knowledge of Meaning