Lisbon Workshop on Semantics
Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
6-7 October 2006
Room: Mattos Romão, Department of Philosophy
The Lisbon Workshop on Semantics is hosted by the Instituto Filosófico de Pedro Hispano (Peter of Spain Philosophy Institute), an institution based on the Department of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. Peter of Spain, the Portuguese medieval logician and philosopher, was himself an influential semanticist in the Middle Ages, having developed a highly sophisticated theory of reference (suppositio) for general terms.
The Lisbon Workshop on Semantics is part of the Project on Content (POCI/FIL/55562/2004), a research project carried out at the Philosophy Centre of the Universisty of Lisbon, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and coordinated by Adriana Silva Graça.
Organization:
The Lisbon Workshop on Semantics is organized by João Branquinho (University of Lisbon) and Jason Stanley (Rutgers University).
Speakers and Papers:
- Chris Barker, New York University: Semantic side effects, and how to spot them
- António Branco, University of Lisbon, and Francisco Costa, University of Lisbon: Computational Semantics
- João Branquinho, University of Lisbon: On the persistence and re-expression of indexical belief
- Paul Elbourne, University of London: The Existence Entailments of Definite Descriptions: A Response to Neale
- Delia Graff Fara, Princeton University: “The customer is always right”
- Jeffrey King, University of Southern California: The Nature and Structure of Content
- Nikola Kompa, University of Münster: Metasemantics
- Peter Ludlow, University of Michigan: Indexical Sense
- Adriana Silva Graça, University of Lisbon: About Speakers Intentions
- Pedro Santos, University of Algarve: Conditionals in context
- Jason Stanley, Rutgers University: The Average American
- Zoltán Gendler Szabó, Yale University: Events in the Making