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SUMMARY:Uppsala Workshop in the Philosophy of Language
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LOCATION:Uppsala\, Sweden
DESCRIPTION:<p>Below is a tentative program\, followed by abstracts. Talks will take place at Uppsala University\, English Park Campus\, room 2-1022. Everyone is welcome. If you have any questions\, please contact the organizer.</p>\n<p>UPDATE (11 June): Daniel Harris had to cancel his trip due to unforseen circumstances. Nils Franz&eacute\;n will be taking his place in the afternoon.</p>\n<p><strong>Monday\, June 12 (Eng/2-1022)<br></strong></p>\n<p>9:30 AM - 10:50 AM&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Andreas Stokke\, "Indexicals as Variables"</p>\n<p>11:00 AM - 12:20 PM&nbsp\; Jessica Pepp\, "Perceiving through photographs and perceiving through words"</p>\n<p>LUNCH</p>\n<p>2:00 PM - 3:20 PM&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Nils Franz&eacute\;n\, "Aesthetic discourse and acquaintence"</p>\n<p>3:30 PM - 4:50 PM&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Eliot Michaelson\, "Unspeakable Names"</p>\n<p><strong>Abstracts</strong></p>\n<p>"Indexicals as Variables" (Andreas Stokke)</p>\n<p>The&nbsp\;most&nbsp\;striking&nbsp\;source&nbsp\;of context-sensitivity in natural languages are the expressions that are typically&nbsp\;called &ldquo\;indexicals.&rdquo\; This category includes (at least) personal pronouns (I\, you\, she\, etc.)\, demonstratives (that\, this\, those\, etc.)\, and the familiar temporal and locative&nbsp\;indexicals&nbsp\;(today\, tomorrow\, here\, there\, etc.)&nbsp\;This paper argues that all the&nbsp\;indexicals&nbsp\;should be treated as variables. In particular\, I propose that a recent way of implementing the&nbsp\;variable&nbsp\;approach to personal pronouns be applied to the rest of the&nbsp\;indexicals&nbsp\;as well. According to this approach\, an&nbsp\;indexical&nbsp\;is a&nbsp\;variable&nbsp\;associated with a number of presuppositional constraints on assignements. The motivation for this proposal is that it allows for a unified and elegant explanation of&nbsp\;a number of patterns of use that all of these expressions have in common. Name\, while all these&nbsp\;indexicals&nbsp\;have uses on which they are referential\, only some have uses of on which they are bound. Specifically\, the suggestion will be that the possibilites and impossibilites of binding are explained by general facts concerning how presuppositions project in the relevant kinds of environments.</p>\n<p>"Unspeakable Names" (Eliot Michaelson)</p>\n<p>There are names which cannot be spoken and others which cannot be written. After demonstrating this\, I will discuss the ramifications of this observation for different theories of names. I will argue that such observations push us towards a pluralism about name-individuation which sits\, at the very least\, uneasily with predicativism. Millian and variabilist approaches to names will have an easier time with these data\, although we will be pushed to reconsider the extent to which these theories ought to be considered competitors.</p>
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