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