28-29 June 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PALMYR IX: Logic and the Use of Language 28-29 June 2010, Amsterdam Both Paris and Amsterdam host a lively group of young researchers working at the interface of logic, language, and theories of rationality. PALMYR brings them together. PALMYR is a series of yearly meetings taking place alternatively in Amsterdam and Paris. At each PALMYR workshop, visitors give talks about their current research interests, each presentation being commented by a fellow researcher from the host town. PALMYR IX will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam. Keynote speakers: Fred Landman (Linguistics, Tel-Aviv) ?Prolegomena to a Theory of Mass Nouns? Frank Veltman (ILLC, Amsterdam) ?Making the Right Exceptions? (joint paper with Harald Bastiaanse) Confirmed participants: Alexandra Arapinis (IHPST, Paris) ?Dynamic Analysis of the Systematic Polysemy of Names of Institutions. The Need for Metaphysical Constraints over a Powerful Semantic Tool? Commentator: Ana Aguilar Guevara (Linguistics, Utrecht) Fabrice Correia (Philosophy, Geneva) ?Non-Proxy Reductions of Eternalist Discourse? Commentator: Jonathan Shaheen (ILLC, Amsterdam & Philosophy, Michigan) Fabio Del Prete (IJN, Paris) ?Non-Monotonic Futures? Commentator: Katrin Schulz (ILLC, Amsterdam) David Etlin (Philosophy, Leuven) ?Vague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump? Commentator: Raquel Fernández Rovira (ILLC, Amsterdam) Henri Galinon (IHPST, Paris) ?Minimal Truth Predicate and Consistency for Free? Commentator: Theodora Achourioti (ILLC, Amsterdam) Julie Hunter (IJN, Paris & Philosophy, Texas-Austin) ?Presuppositional Character? Commentator: Maria Aloni (ILLC, Amsterdam) Michael Murez (IJN, Paris) ?The Logic, Semantics and Pragmatics of Agentive Attitudes? Commentator: Inés Crespo (ILLC, Amsterdam) David Ripley (IJN, Paris) ?Embedding Denial? Commentator: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (ILLC, Amsterdam) Johannes Stern (Philosophy, Geneva) ?An Immaculate Conception of Truth, Necessity, and Knowledge? Commentator: Stefan Wintein (TiLPS, Tilburg) Isidora Stojanovic (IJN, Paris) ?Logical Validity vs. Pragmatically Warranted Truth? Commentator: Lucian Zagan (ILLC, Amsterdam) All details concerning location, registration, programme are here: http://www.illc.uva.nl/PALMYR/PALMYR-9/. Everyone is welcome.