3rd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association

The Third Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association will take place at UMass Amherst on September 20-21, 2024. The goal of the conference, and of the association, is to provide a venue for philosophers of language to discuss new work in all areas of the field.

Schedule

Friday, September 20th

10:00–11:10 Janice Dowell: Discourse Relations, Ritualized Situations, and Modal Interpretation

11:20–12:30 Jonathan Caleb Kendrick: A Local Solution to the Samaritan Paradox

Lunch break

14:00–15:10 Samuel Wolf Cantor: Evidentially Expressive Adjectives

Tea & Coffee break

15:40–17:00 Keynote: Dilip Ninan: A Relationist theory of Intentional Identity

Saturday, September 21st (Location: Integrative Learning Center, N400)

10:00–11:10 Dan Harris & Elmar Unnsteinsson: Genre and Conversation

11:20–12:30 Maciej Tarnowski: Non-Assertoric Moorean Speech Acts

Lunch break

14:00–15:10 Kenneth Black: But if I’m wrong...

Tea & Coffee break

15:40–17:00 Keynote: Angelika Kratzer: An unabashed view of possible worlds semantics

Location: 

• Integrative Learning center (650 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003), Room: N400