The 1st Context, Cognition and Communication Conference

The first CCC conference will revolve around issues of context dependence in language, action and cognition. We invite papers related to this topic, falling in the areas of philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, natural language semantics, pragmatics, cognitive science, theoretical linguistics, semiotics (as understood in the Morris-Carnap tradition), formal philosophy and philosophical logic. 

The purpose of the conference is, first, to enhance dialogue between philosophers working in different areas of philosophy, logicians, linguists and cognitive scientists, and, second, to discuss as many aspects of the phenomenon of context dependence as possible. The topics may include, but are not limited to, various aspects of the contextualism-minimalism and contextualism-relativism debates, the issue of formal representations of context and conversational dynamics, topics in logic and semantics of indexicals and demonstratives, the analysis of the concept of background knowledge, the problem of the roles of context in pragmatic inferences, the motivations for classical and non-classical approaches to mental and linguistic contents, the impact of contexts on propositional attitude attributions, the nature of context effects in cognition and language processing.