PhiLang 2015 – Fourth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Department of English and General Linguistics, University of Łódź, Łódź, 14-16 May 2015
Venues: University Conference Center (Kopcińskiego 16/18) and Faculty of Philology (Pomorska 171/173)
PROGRAMME [as of 12.05.2015]
Thursday, 14.05.2015
8.30-10.00
10.00
Registration at reception desk, Pomorska 171/173 (one can also register on Wednesday, 13 May 2015, from 18:00 to 20:00, Kopcińskiego 16/18)
Conference opening: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź) (Aula 5, Pomorska 171/173)
10.15-11.15
Plenary lecture 1:
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona) Predicativism and the Presuppositional View of Proper Names (Aula 5, Pomorska 171/173)
11.15-12.15
Plenary lecture 2:
Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw) Context, Vagueness, and Reference (Aula 5, Pomorska 171/173)
Transfer to Kopcińskiego16/18 (12.15-13.00), all subsequent events that day at the Conference Center
LUNCH (13.00-14.15)
Section A (Room 1)
Section B (Room 4)
Gabrielle Mras (University of Vienna, Austria)
The Sense of Frege’s Reference
(14.30-15.00)
Andre Bazzoni (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
The Cluster-occurrrence Theory of Proper Names
(15.00-15.30)
H.G. Callaway (Rowan University, New Jersey, USA)
Semantic Contextualism and Scientific Pluralism
(14.30-15.00)
Tibor Bárány (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Expressibility, Effiability, and Background-Dependence
(15.00-15.30)
Matthew Cameron (University of St.Andrews, UK)
Speaker’s Intention and the Formal Representatuion of Context
(15.30-16.00)
Mark Pinder (University of Reading, UK)
Are Folk Semantic Intuitions Relevant to Arguments from Reference?
(16.00-16.30)
Tadeusz Ciecierski & Aleksander Latkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Belief Reports and Context Dependence
(15.30-16.00)
Paweł Grabarczyk (University of Łódź, Poland)
Why Is Narrow Content still Relevant?
(16.00-16.30)
Krzysztof Posłajko & Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland)
Re-reading Kripke’s Normativity Argument
(17.00-17.30)
Dan Zeman (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Relativism and the Multi-perspectivality of Predicates of Personal Taste
(17.30-18.00)
Gregory Bochner (Université Libre de Bruxelles & Universitat de Barcelona)
The Problem of the Essential De Re
(17.00-17.30)
Andrei Moldovan (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
The Pragmatics of Non-denoting Descriptions
(17.30-18.00)
Luis Fernández Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Is the Semantics of Natural Kind Terms Extendable to Artifactual Terms?
(18.00-18.30)
Dušan Dožudić (Centre for Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia)
The Nature and Content of Propositional Attitudes: Lessons of the Explication
Problem
(18.00-18.30)
Section C (Room 2)
Dariusz Głuch (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Semantics of Epistemic Modal Must (Necessity)
(14.30-15.00)
Leszek Szymański (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
An Empirical Contribution to Aspect-Modality Interaction Studies: Negated Must
and Verbal Apect in American English
(15.00-15.30)
Cristina Corredor (University Valladolid, Spain)
Commitment in Illocutionary Acts
(15.30-16.00)
Maciej Witek (University of Szczecin, Poland)
Phatic Meaning, Token-reflexive Content and Deictical Intentions
(16.00-16.30)
REFRESHMENTS (16.30-17.00)
CONFERENCE DINNER (19.30-21.30)
(Kopcińskiego 16/18)
Wojciech Rostworowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Attributive Descriptions and Non-Existential Interpretation
(17.00-17.30)
Andrew Schumann (University of Information Technology and Management in
Rzeszów, Poland)
On the Meaning of Performative Propositions used by Traders
(17.30-18.00)
Wiktor Pskit (University of Łódź, Poland)
Linguistic and Philosophical Approaches to NPN an (P)NPN Structures
(18.00-18.30)
Friday, 15.05.2015 (all events at Kopcińskiego 16/18)
9.30-10.30 Plenary lecture 3: Richard Gaskin (University of Liverpool) Reference and Linguistic Idealism (Aula, Kopcińskiego 16/18)
Section A (Room 1)
Section B (Room 4)
Stefan Riegelnik (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
On the Very Idea of Predicate Reference
(10.30-11.00)
Justyna Grudzińska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Indefinites Revisited: A Type-theoretic Perspective
(10.30-11.00)
Matthew McKeever (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Predicativism Refined
(11.00-11.30)
Peter Ridley (King’s College London, UK)
Who’s Mum
(11.00-11.30)
Section C (Room 3)
Nina Pawlak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Discourse Properties of the Reference System for Coding Spatial information in
Hausa
(10.30-11.00)
Pierre Cardascia (Université de Lille 3, France)
Time-reference and Pragmatism in Logical Analysis: The Dialogical Case
(11.00-11.30)
REFRESHMENTS (11.30-12.00)
Nathan Duckett (University of Manchester, UK)
Allegedly Isn’t an Epstemic Modal
(12.00-12.30)
Jiří Raclavský (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
Nominal Description Theory and Modal Argument
(12.30-13.00)
Ashley Atkins (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Modality as a Window into Cognition
(13.00-13.30)
Giulia Felappi (King’s College London, UK)
‘That’-clauses and Singular Terms
(12.00-12.30)
Massimiliano Vignolo (University of Genoa, Italy)
Saving Uniqueness
(12.30-13.00)
Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republik)
The Inclusive and Exclusive Interpretation of Plural Nouns
(13.00-13.30)
Arkadiusz Gut (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Opacity of Mind and Metalinguistic Awareness
(12.00-12.30)
Natalia Karczewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Challenges to Metalinguistic Negotiation as Disagreement
(12.30-13.00)
Katarzyna Paprzycka (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Methodological Reflections on Academic and Experimental Philosophy: the
Case of the Omissions Account of the Knobe Effect And the Butler Problem
(13.00-13.30)
LUNCH (13:30-14:30)
15.00-16.00 Plenary lecture 4: Wolfram Hinzen (ICREA/Universitat de Barcelona) The Grammar of Essential Indexicality (Aula, Kopcińskiego 16/18)
Kasia M. Jaszczołt (University of Cambridge, UK)
The Demise of the First-Person Indexical
(16.00-16.30)
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland)
Indexicals in Proverbs
(16.30-17.00)
Janusz Badio (University of Łódź, Poland)
Horizontal and Vertical Aspects of Construal and Linguistic Coding of Narrative
(16.00-16.30)
Crister Nyberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Does Fiction Make Sense? Understanding Fiction
(16.30-17.00)
Arno Goebel (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Indicative Conditionals, Probabilistic Relevance and Discourse Structure
(16.00-16.30)
Michał Sikorski (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Simple, Probabilistic, True: A New Version of Probabilistic Semantics for
Simple Conditionals
(16.30-17.00)
REFRESHMENTS (17.00-17.30)
Lukas Bielik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Thought Experiments in Semantics: An (Apparent) Puzzle
(17.30-18.00)
Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland)
Is Minimal Semantics (Im)Practical?
(18.00-18.30)
Zsófia Zvolenszky (Eötvös University, Hungary)
Fictional Characters and Goodman’s Inadvertent Creation Challenge
(17.30-18.00)
Verbena Giambastini (University of Pisa, Italy)
Goodman and Calvino: A Productive Exchange of Views
(18.00-18.30)
Antonio Duarte Calvo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Interpretation of fallacies through abduction
(18.30-19.00)
Krzysztof Kosecki (University of Łódź)
Philosophy of Life in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place: A View from Cognitive Poetics
(18.30-19.00)
Antonio Blanco Salqueiro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
On the so-called ‘Cognitive’ Theory of Metaphors
(17.30-18.00)
Alina Kwiatkowska (University of Łódź, Poland)
Visual Representation of Complex Philosophical Concepts in Philographics
by Genis Carreras
(18.00-18.30)
Aleksandra Majdzińska (University of Łódź, Poland)
The Same but Different
(18.30-19.00)
Saturday, 16.05.2015 (all events at Pomorska 171/173, including lunch)
9.30-10:30 Plenary lecture 5: Marián Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Against Descriptivism: On an Essential Difference between Proper Names and Definite Descriptions
(Aula 5, Pomorska 171/173)
Section A (Room 2.20)
Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University, USA)
Empty Names and Error Theory
(10.30-11.00)
Luca Sbordone (University of Cambridge, UK)
Vagueness, Contingency and Assessment-sensitivity
(11.00-11.30)
Section B (Room 2.21)
Ryan Nefdt (University of St Andrews, UK)
Linguistic Modelling and Science
(10.30-11.00)
Martin Hinton (University of Łódź, Poland)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistic Intuitions
(11.00-11.30)
Section C (Room 2.22)
Wiktor Piotrowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Semantic Problems of Relevance Theory
(10.30-11.00)
Konrad Kobyliński (University of Silesia, Poland)
Evolutionary Grounds for Relevance Theory
(11.00-11.30)
REFRESHMENTS (11.30-12.00)
Henry Kelly (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Gender Normativity and Auxiliary Languages
(12.00-12.30)
Delia Belleri (UNAM Mexico City)
Externalistic Derogation
(12.30-13.00)
Jan Wiślicki (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland)
Weakened Compositionality and a Unified Semantics of Quotation
(12.00-12.30)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences & University of Warsaw)
Compositionality in Constrained-Based Linguistic Theories
(12.30-13.00)
Mirela Fuš (University of St. Andrews, UK & University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Direct Reference for Social Kinds: Pejorative Terms as Recognitional Files?
(13.00-13.30)
Vasil Penchev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Semiotics of Ontological Quanta
(13.00-13.30)
13.30
Martin Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Alien Properties and Impossible Worlds
(12.00-12.30)
Halina Święczkowska & Beata Piecychna (University of Białystok)
Reflections on Some of the Issues of Rationalist Philosophy of Mind and
Philosophy of Language. Remarks on the Margins of a Philosophical
Discourse Concerning Speech by Gerauld de Cordemoy
(12.30-13.00)
Magdalena Król (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland)
Philosophy in Construction Grammar
(13.00-13.30)
Conference closing: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź) (Aula 5, Pomorska 171/173)
LUNCH (13.45-14.30)
(Pomorska 171/173)