Modality

The Philosophy and Linguistics departments at Ohio State are delighted to announce the fifth installment of the annual Ohio State Philosophy-Linguistic workshop to be held from March 23-24, 2016, at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s topic is Modality.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together philosophical and linguistic perspectives on the study of modality, with the hope of achieving a better understanding of this deep and fascinating subject, which raises a number of different issues ranging from epistemology to logic and metaphysics, and from the nature of context-sensitivity to the semantics of quantification.

The conference website, which includes a tentative schedule and travel information is http://u.osu.edu/modw2016/

Registration is $20 for non-OSU affiliates. Everyone is requested to register by March 10th, 2016.

Confirmed Speakers:

Andy Egan (Philosophy, Rutgers)

Kai von Fintel (Linguistics, MIT) 

Thony Gillies (Philosophy, Rutgers) 

Stefan Kaufmann (Linguistics, UConn) 

Angelika Kratzer (Linguistics, UMass) 

Øystein Linnebo (Philosophy, Oslo) 

Craige Roberts (Linguistics, OSU)

Giorgio Sbardolini (Philosophy, OSU)

Stewart Shapiro (Philosophy, OSU)

Confirmed Conference Discussants:

Chris Barker (Linguistics, NYU)

Jefferson Barlew (Linguistics, OSU)

Michael Glanzberg (Philosophy, Northwestern) 

Geoffrey Hellman (Philosophy, University of Minnesota)

Hans Kamp (Institute for Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart)

Teresa Kouri (Philosophy, OSU)

Dan Lassiter (Linguistics, Stanford) 

Eric Snyder (Philosophy, OSU)

Rich Thomason (Philosophy, Michigan) 

Malte Willer (Philosophy, U Chicago)

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact [email protected]