We will be meeting on Tuesday, April 3, at 11am in Manchester Hall 227, to discuss the paper “Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic reconstruction” by Itai Bassi and Ezer Rasin (to appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22).

http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003876

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

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Philosophy Brown Bag: Alexus McLeod

Guest Speaker: Jenny Saul (University of Sheffield)

People on all sides of the political spectrum often view their opposites as arrogant know-it-alls—as not really being willing to listen to alternative voices. The goal of this workshop is examine the role that a certain kind of arrogance—arrogance about one’s view or beliefs—plays in divisive, polarized political debate. Is arrogance or perceived arrogance a consequence or a cause of polarization? Could promoting a more open-minded or intellectual humble attitude help make politics less divisive? A dozen researchers from around the world will gather in Hartford to discuss these questions and the broader issue of whether reasonable, constructive public dialogue is even possible in our political moment – and if it is, what concrete interventions and/or strategies might be helpful in addressing this problem.

The workshop is sponsored by Humility and Conviction in Public Life (HCPL), an applied research project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Connecticut, which aims to shed new light on how democracies can balance the value of strong moral conviction with the need for citizens to dialogue with one another, to have some sense of humility about their own values. The hope is that the workshop will be a launching pad for future collaborations and practical interventions.

http://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/

People on all sides of the political spectrum often view their opposites as arrogant know-it-alls—as not really being willing to listen to alternative voices. The goal of this workshop is examine the role that a certain kind of arrogance—arrogance about one’s view or beliefs—plays in divisive, polarized political debate. Is arrogance or perceived arrogance a consequence or a cause of polarization? Could promoting a more open-minded or intellectual humble attitude help make politics less divisive? A dozen researchers from around the world will gather in Hartford to discuss these questions and the broader issue of whether reasonable, constructive public dialogue is even possible in our political moment – and if it is, what concrete interventions and/or strategies might be helpful in addressing this problem.

The workshop is sponsored by Humility and Conviction in Public Life (HCPL), an applied research project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Connecticut, which aims to shed new light on how democracies can balance the value of strong moral conviction with the need for citizens to dialogue with one another, to have some sense of humility about their own values. The hope is that the workshop will be a launching pad for future collaborations and practical interventions.

http://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/

We will be meeting on Tuesday, April 10, at 11am in Manchester Hall 227, to discuss the paper "Is a Possible-Worlds Semantics of Modality Possible?" by Zsofia Zvolenszky (2002, in Proceedings of SALT 12).

https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/2866

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

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Philosophy Brown Bag: Stewart Shapiro and Marcus Rossberg

Join us for a talk by Eric Carter (NCSU) in the Logic Colloquium!

http://logic.uconn.edu/

We will be meeting on Tuesday, April 17, at 11am in Manchester Hall 227, for a preview of an upcoming conference presentation by Teruyuki Mizuno and Stefan Kaufmann titled “Past-as-Past in Japanese Counterfactuals” (Chicago Linguistic Society, April 26-28).
As a background reading, we recommend Toshiyuki Ogihara’s (2014) “The Semantics of -ta in Japanese Future Conditionals“, in Crnič, Luka and Uli Sauerland (eds.), The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim.

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

Philosophy Brown Bag: Greg Restall

Details TBA. Please check http://www.ecomresearchgroup.com for more information.

Details TBA. Please check http://www.ecomresearchgroup.com for more information.

We will be meeting on Tuesday, April 24, at 11am in Manchester Hall 227, for a talk by Woojin Chung (NYU Linguistics) on "Obligation as counterfactual reasoning".

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

International Chinese Philosophy Communicative Conference

Join us for a talk by Joe Buffington (U of Albany).

All welcome!

http://logic.uconn.edu/

Colloquium

International Chinese Philosophy Communicative Conference

International Chinese Philosophy Communicative Conference

Josh Armstrong (Philosophy, UCLA) will give a talk to the ECOM Research Group.

http://www.ecomresearchgroup.com/