Bilateral approaches to meaning
20 – 22 June 2019
University of Amsterdam and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Supported by the European Research Council.
Speakers
- Maria Aloni (ILLC, Amsterdam)
- David Beisecker (Nevada, Las Vegas)
- Peter Hawke (ILLC, Amterdam)
- Teresa Marques (Logos, Barcelona)
- Greg Restall (Melbourne)
- Lucas Rosenblatt (Buenos Aires)
- David Ripley (Monash)
- Sebastian Speitel (UC San Diego)
- Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (ILLC, Amsterdam)
- EXPRESS team members
Description
Traditional semantics gives the meaning of expressions in terms of conditions on one kind of primitive (e.g. truth, assertion, belief). Bilateral approaches hold that the meaning of expressions is characterized in terms of conditions on two, usually opposite primitives (e.g. truth and falsity, assertion and rejection, belief and disbelief). Recent years have witnessed the independent development of a variety of bilateral approaches to analyze phenomena such as negation, epistemic modality and counterfactuals, from both a proof-theoretic and a model-theoretic perspective. The workshop will bring together researchers from either perspective in order to provide a venue for the systematic exploration of commonalities, differences and potential interactions between such approaches.
- Are there natural points of contact between the various bilateral approaches?
- Can a unified bilateral approach be developed?
- What advantages, if any, does it have over the standard unilateral approach?
- What is the remit of bilateral semantics in formal semantics and/or philosophy of language?
- What is the linguistic, cognitive, or metaphysical status of meanings given in terms of bilateral semantics?
- Are there further areas of application for bilateral approaches?
- Should the bilateral approach be further expanded into a multilateral approach?
Programme
Thursday June 20th
- 9h30: Registration
- 9h45: WELCOME
- 10h — 11h15: Dave Ripley — Position-theoretic semantics, disagreement, and entailment
- 11h45 — 13h: Lucas Rosenblatt — Invalidities
- 13h — 14h30: Lunch Break
- 14h30 — 15h45: Leïla Bussière — Dissent and rejection
- 16h15 — 17h30: Sebastian Speitel — Meaning and logicality in bilateralist frameworks
Friday June 21st
- 10h — 11h15: Teresa Marques — Illocutionary force and attitude mode in normative disputes
- 11h45 — 13h: Luca Incurvati and Julian Schlöder — Meta-ethical inferential expressivism
- 13h — 14h30: Lunch Break
- 14h30 — 15h45: David Beisecker — Bilateralism and its pragmatist roots
- 16h15 — 17h30: Maria Aloni — Weak assertion meets information states: a logic for epistemic modality and quantification
Saturday June 22nd
- 10h — 11h15: Peter Hawke and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld — Semantic expressivism for modals, conditionals and quantification
- 11h45 — 13h: Greg Restall — Assertions, denials, questions, answers and the common ground
Abstracts
Abstracts can be found here.
Venue
The workshop will take place at the following locations:
- Thursday 20 June: University Library of the University of Amsterdam, Singel 425
1012 WP, Doelenzaal - Friday 21 June: Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX, room F0.21
- Saturday 22 June: University Library of the University of Amsterdam, Singel 425
1012 WP, Doelenzaal
Registration
Attendance is free. The deadline for registration has now passed, but if you are interested in attending, please feel free to come by.
Call for abstracts
The deadline of the call for abstracts has now passed and contributions have been selected.
Contact
Email: inferentialexpressivism@gmail.com
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