Situations, Information and Semantic Content

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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites abstracts for the workshop:

Situations, Information and Semantic Content

MCMP, LMU Munich

December 16-18, 2016

www.situatedcontent2016.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de
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This workshop aims to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive and computer scientists to discuss the ways in which the meaning of linguistic expressions varies with the informational situation of the agents interpreting the expressions. 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

We invite submissions of extended abstracts for talks (for 30+10-minute presentations)
or posters on any aspect of semantic information-dependence. Submissions should
include a title, a short abstract (max. 100 words), and an extended abstract (max.
1.000 words including references) and should be prepared for blind peer review.
Submissions should be made via the workshop's EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=situatedcontent2016


Dates and Deadines:

Submission deadline: May 29, 2016
Author notification: July 15, 2016
Workshop date: December 16-18, 2016

Organizers:
Kristina Liefke (LMU Munich/MCMP)
Markus Kneer (University of Pittsburgh)