Logic List Mailing Archive

"Vagueness in Language, Reasoning and Cognition"

27-28 Jan 2012
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

We are pleased to announce the closing workshop of the NWO project *On 
vagueness - and how to be precise enough* (2008-2012): "Vagueness in 
Language, Reasoning and Cognition". The workshop will bring together 
philosophers, semanticists, and psychologists working on the topic.

Time:       January 27-28, 2012.
Location:  de Doelenzaal (University Library, UvA), Singel 425, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.

Institute:  The Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation<http://www.illc.uva.nl/> (ILLC),
University of Amsterdam.

The invited speakers will be:

Louise McNally <http://www.upf.edu/pdi/louise-mcnally/> (Pompeu Fabra
University)
Chris Barker <https://files.nyu.edu/cb125/public/> (New York University)
Sigrid Beck <http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/eli/sigrid.beck/> (University of Tü
bingen)
Yael Greenberg <http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/yael/> (Bar-Ilan University)
Tamina Stephenson <http://sites.google.com/site/taminastephenson/> (Yale
University)
Peter Pagin <http://people.su.se/~ppagin/pagineng.htm> (Stockholm
University)
*Agustín Rayo <http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/>* (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Pablo Cobreros <http://unav.academia.edu/PabloCobreros> (University of
Navarra)
Raquel Fernández <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~raquel/> (University of
Amsterdam)
Gerhard Jäger <http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/> (University of Tü
bingen)
Gert Storms <http://fac.ppw.kuleuven.be/lep/concat/gert/index.php> (University
of Leuven)

The project adviser:

Ewan Klein <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ewan/> (University of Edinburgh)


More details on the workshop will be provided on the official
site<https://sites.google.com/site/vaguenesscircle/workshop> in
due time (sites.google.com/site/vaguenesscircle/workshop). We hope to see
you there!


Best wishes,
The organizers,
Galit Sassoon
Harald Bastiaanse
Robert van Rooij
Frank Veltman