Semantics as a Natural Science

04/06,THURSDAY

10:15AM HANS KAMP (STUTTGART UNIVERSITY): MONTAGUE'S GRAMMAR

11:30AM ANDREA BIANCHI (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA): PROPER NAMES AND INDIVIDUAL CONSTANTS

3:00PM INDREK REILAND (HELSINKI COLLEGIUM OF ADVANCED STUDIES): THE PLACE OF PUBLIC LANGUAGE

4:15PM ANTONIO CAPUANO (AUBURN UNIVERSITY): REFERENCE, TRUTH, AND FORMAL SYSTEMS

5:30PM JOHN PERRY (STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND UCR, EMERITUS): INUSTS: INSUFFICIENT BUT NECESSARY PARTS OF UNNECESSARY BUT SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS OF TRUTH

05/06, FRIDAY

9:00AM UNA STOJNIC (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) AND MATTHEW STONE

(RUTGERS UNIVERSITY): MEANING IN CHATBOTS: THE CRITICAL APPROACH

10:15AM JESSICA PEPP (UPPSALA UNIVERSITY): CAN REFERENCE BE PURELY LINGUISTIC? LESSONS FROM LLMS

11:30AM ALESSANDRO TORZA (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA): TROUBLE IN PARADISE? ON HOFWEBER'S ANIMADVERSIONS ON HIGHER-ORDER METAPHYSICS

3:00PM JP SMITH (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY): CONVENTION, CAUSATION, AND THOUGHT

4:15PM KALLE HELLGREN (UNIVERSITY OF TURKU): NEO-DONNELLANIAN SEMANTICS

5:30PM JOSEPH ALMOG (UCLA AND KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY): BY PERCEPTUAL-REFERENCE ONLY: A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF NATURAL LANGUAGE GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS AND LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE