Asserting, Meaning, and Implying

A Conference Schedule in Linguistics and Philosophy
In Honor of Jay David Atlas
A 60th Birthday Celebration

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 1st   (All events to take place in Smith Campus Center 208 unless otherwise noted)

1:15 pm

Opening Remarks

President David Oxtoby
Pomona College
René Coppieters
Pomona College

1:30 pm

The Gap Between Meaning and Assertion:  Why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean.

Scott Soames
University of Southern California

2:30 pm

Varieties of semantics and encoding

Noel Burton Roberts
The University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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3:30-3:45 pm      Coffee Break

3:45 pm

Dialogue and the grammar-pragmatics interface

Ruth Kempson
King's College, London

4:45 pm

Metaphor, Lexical Pragmatics and Truth-Conditional Content

Deirdre Wilson
University College London

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5:45-7:30 pm      Dinner Break
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7:30 pm

How Cognitive Science Changes Philosophy: The Case of Freedom (Hahn 101)

George Lakoff
University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, April 2 nd
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8:00-9:00 am      Coffee, Breakfast
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9:00 am

Presuppositions and Conventional Implicatures Interface

Barbara Abbott
Michigan State University

10:00 am

Presupposition Failure and the Topic/Focus Structure of Utterances

Anne Bezuidenhout
University of South Carolina

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11:00-11:20 am   Coffee Break
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11:20 am

Math According to GARP

Jerry Sadock
University of Chicago

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12:20-2:00 am    Lunch Break
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2:00 pm

ONLY Connect:  How to Unpack an Exclusive Proposition

Laurence R. Horn
Yale University

3:00 pm

Negation, Temporal Connectives, and Non-Veridicality

Frans Zwarts
University of Groningen

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4:00-4:15 pm      Coffee Break
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4:15 pm

Gönadology

Paul Benacerraf
Princeton University

5:15 pm              Closing Remarks

5:30-6:30 pm      Reception