16-18 Dec 2016
Munich, Germany
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
in 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
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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
PROGRAM
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*Day 1 - Friday, December 16, 2016*
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
9:45 - 10:45 Friederike Moltmann _Modal objects and their truthmakers_
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 David Boylan _Miners and modals_
12:00 - 12:45 Ethan Jerzak _Two ways to want_
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Floris Roelofsen _Information, issues, and live possibilities_
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 Dirk Kindermann _Fragmented contexts_
16:00 - 16:45 Justin Bledin _Sobel-like sequences of attention and belief
change_
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Ede Zimmermann TBA
*Day 2 - Saturday, December 17, 2016*
9:15 - 10:15 Roussanka Loukanova _Typed theory of situated information for
syntax-semantics interfaces_
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Luke Burke _Monads, information and perspective_
11:15 - 12:00 Federico Faroldi _Co-hyperintensionality and partial situations_
12:00 - 12:45 Patrick Allo _Logics as levels of abstraction: the situated and
relational nature of information_
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Robin Cooper _Rich semantic content using record types_
15:00 - 15:30 Poster session lightning talks
15:30 - 16:15 Poster session & Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Markus Werning _Evidence for single-type semantics ? an alternative
to e/t-based dual-type semantics_
17:15-18:00 Kristina Liefke _Towards an account of rich situated NL
interpretations_
19:00 - Workshop dinner
*Day 3 - Sunday, December 18, 2016*
10:15 - 11:15 Nikola Kompa _Language and embodiment_
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Dietmar Zaefferer _Bridging the gap between language and action
with an agent-based situation theory_
11:15 - 12:00 Markus Kneer TBA
12:00 - 12:45 Erica Cosentino and Markus Werning _Does pragmatic modulation
occur before or after sentence meaning
composition is completed? N400 effects of the interaction between
context-induced affordances and lexical meaning_
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Sebastian Löbner _Frames as informational holograms_
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:00 Gregory Bochner _The problem of the essential index_
16:00-16:45 Mark Bowker _Denying semantic content_
REGISTRATION
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Registration for the workshop is open until *December 1, 2016*. To register,
please send an
email with the subject "register" to Kristina Liefke at
SituatedContent2016@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.
The body of the email should contain your name and affiliation, and should
indicate whether
you wish to attend the conference dinner (to be held on Saturday, December 17;
ca. Eur 30).
The registration fee (Eur 40) and the fee for the dinner will need to be paid
in cash upon registration.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Kristina Liefke (LMU Munich/MCMP)
* Mark Bowker (LMU Munich/MCMP)
* Markus Kneer (University of Pittsburgh)
CONTACT
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For questions about the workshop, please email Kristina Liefke at
SituatedContent2016@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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