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SUMMARY:Genericity in Philosophy and Linguistics ("The Generic Workshop")
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LOCATION:310 Emerson Hall\, Department of Philosophy\, Harvard University\, Cambridge\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Genericity in Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop and Special Issue of <em>Inquiry</em></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Guest Editors: </strong>Bernhard Nickel and Rachel Sterken</p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Organisers:</strong> Bernhard Nickel\, Torfinn Huvenes and Rachel Sterken</p>\n<p>The goal of this workshop and the subsequent special issue of <em>Inquiry</em> is to provide a forum for new work on genericity\, especially work focused on drawing out the connections between the study of generics and other areas of philosophy\, including (but not limited to) metaphysics\, (meta-)ethics\, epistemology\, philosophical methodology\, philosophical logic\, philosophy of science\, philosophy of mind\, psychology\, and semantics. Contributions from philosophy\, psychology\, and linguistics are all welcome\, so long as they forge connections between the narrowly linguistic study of generics and other fields of philosophy. Questions to be addressed might include</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand dispositions?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand kinds?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand laws?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand ethical principles?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand the subject matter of semantics more generally?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand the subject matter of semantics more generally?</li>\n<li>How (if at all) does the study of generics help us to understand non-monotonic reasoning\, defeasible reasoning and/or inductive inference?</li>\n<li>What is the connection between genericity in language and in thought?</li>\n<li>Can the study of generics help us understand social prejudice and stereotypes?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Workshop Details</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Time/Date: </strong>October 3rd and 4th\, 2015</p>\n<p><strong>Place: </strong>310 Emerson Hall\,<strong>&nbsp\;</strong>Department of Philosophy\,&nbsp\;Harvard University\, Cambridge\, MA</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Program</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Saturday\, October 3\, 2015</strong></p>\n<p>10:45 am - 11:45 am: <strong>Alex Anthony (Rutgers) - <em>Taste and Genericity </em></strong></p>\n<p>Commentator: Ravi Thakral (St Andrews)</p>\n<p>12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: <strong>Matt Teichman (Chicago) - <em>Genericity and Quantification </em></strong></p>\n<p>Commentator: Joseph Milburn (Pittsburgh)</p>\n<p>2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: <strong>Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Cambridge) - <em>The Effect of Context on Generic and Quantificational Generalisations </em></strong></p>\n<p>Commentator: John Collins (East Anglia)</p>\n<p>3:15 pm - 4:15 pm: <strong>James Kirkpatrick (Oxford) - <em>Generics and (Reverse) Sobel Sequences</em></strong></p>\n<p><strong><em></em></strong> Commentator: Preston John Stovall (Pittsburgh)</p>\n<p>5:00 pm - 6:30 pm:<strong>KEYNOTE - Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern) - <em>Generics in Language\, Generics in Thought </em></strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Sunday\, October 4\, 2015 </strong></p>\n<p>9:00 am - 10:00 am:<strong> Samia Hesni (MIT) - <em>A Good Duck is Monogamous and Boys Don&rsquo\;t Cry: Normative Generics and the Indefinite Singular</em>&nbsp\; </strong></p>\n<p>Commentator: Kristina Gehrman (Tennessee-Knoxville)<strong> </strong></p>\n<p>10:15 am - 11:45 am:<strong> KEYNOTE -Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) - <em>Generics don't Essentialise People: People Essentialise People!</em></strong></p>\n<p><strong><em><br></em></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Special Issue Details</strong></p>\n<p>Papers submitted for the workshop will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of <em>Inquiry</em> devoted to the themes of the workshop. Papers will be separately refereed through the journal.</p>\n<p><strong>About the Journal</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><em>Inquiry </em>is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing work within in all areas of philosophy. It was founded by Arne N&aelig\;ss in 1958. The journal is a forum for presenting the best of philosophical thinking from a variety of perspectives. <em>Inquiry</em> publishes research articles\, symposia\, special issues\, target articles\, review essays\, and critical discussions. [www.tandfonline.com/action/.U494cFxORg0]</p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Website:&nbsp\;</strong>http://thegenericworkshop.rachelsterken.org</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Torfinn Huvenes;CN=Bernhard Nickel;CN=Rachel  Sterken:
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