16-18 Dec 2016
Muenchen, Germany
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for the Workshop
Situations, Information, and Semantic Content
www.situatedcontent2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)
LMU Munich, Germany
December 16-18, 2016
* Submission deadline: May 29, 2016 *
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BACKGROUND, AIMS AND SCOPE
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The semantic content of natural language is multiply *situated*: Whether an
utterance receives one interpretation or another depends on the *discourse
situation* (in which the utterance takes place), on the *target situation*
(which is described by the utterance), and on the interpreting agents'
*informational situation* (which also contains the agents' background
knowledge).
Over the past decades, work on extralinguistic context-dependence has focused
on discourse situations and target situations, and has paid less attention to
the
dependence of interpretation on the agents' informational situation. However,
this
kind of information-dependence plays a crucial role in the explanation of a
number
of semantic phenomena, including the behavior of epistemic/deontic modals and
propositional attitude-sentences. Recent research in situated cognition has
suggested an even more general scope of semantic information-dependence.
The latter assumes that cognition (and therefore, *all* linguistic
understanding)
is fundamentally embedded in the situational context of the cognition.
This workshop aims to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and
cognitive
and computer scientists to discuss the information-dependence of the semantic
content
of natural language. It covers all aspects of the interaction between
situations,
information, and semantic content ? both theoretical and experimental ?,
including
? agents' information and semantic content
? the scope of information-dependence in natural language
? analyses of semantic phenomena featuring information-dependence
? experiments on semantic information-dependence
? the impact of agents' information on attitude attributions
? semantic aspects of situated cognition
? situation theory and situation semantics
? data semantics and dynamic/update semantics
? (partial) information and situations
? the formal analysis of (informational) situations
? the formal analysis of background knowledge
? partiality of information
? type-theoretic approaches to information
SUBMISSION
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We invite submissions of extended abstracts for talks (for 30+10-minute
presentations)
or posters on any aspect of semantic information-dependence. Submissions should
include a title, a short abstract (max. 100 words), and an extended abstract
(max.
1.000 words including references) and should be prepared for blind peer review.
Submissions should be made via the workshop's EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=situatedcontent2016
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: May 29, 2016
Author notification: July 15, 2016
Workshop date: December 16-18, 2016
Workshop url: www.situatedcontent2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de
INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg)
* Nikola Kompa (Osnabrück University)
* Roussanka Loukanova (Stockholm University)
* Friedrike Moltmann (CNRS Paris, New York University)
* Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam/ILLC)
* Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)
* Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
* more speakers to be confirmed
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Kristina Liefke (LMU Munich/MCMP)
* Markus Kneer (University of Pittsburgh)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Gregory Bochner (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
* Dirk Kindermann (University of Graz)
* Roussanka Loukanova (Stockholm University)
* Gil Sagi (LMU Munich/MCMP)
* Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
* Augustin Vincente (Ikerbasque Foundation of Science/UPV-EHU)
* Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)
* Jack Woods (University of Leeds)
* Dan Zeman (University of the Basque Country)
* Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
CONTACT
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For questions about the workshop, please email Kristina Liefke at
SituatedContent2016@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.
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