Subjectivity in Language and Thought

May 19, 2017 - May 20, 2017
University of Chicago

JRL S-102
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago 60637
United States

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Sponsor(s):

  • Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Speakers:

Elizabeth Coppock
University of Gothenburg
Anastasia Giannakidou
University of Chicago
Dan Lassiter
Stanford University
Alda Mari
Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, ENS, EHESS
Dilip Ninan
Tufts University

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Christopher Kennedy
University of Chicago
University of Chicago

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Expressions whose meaning have a distinctly subjective dimension – most notably predicates of personal taste — have received increased attention by linguists and philosophers in the last decade or so. In addition to the extensively debated phenomenon of faultless disagreement (Kölbel), the fact that across languages certain attitude verbs such as English “find” require their complement to be subjective in a distinct way (Sæbø) raises unique conceptual and empirical challenges to a comprehensive theory of natural language meaning. Several researchers have explored issues about subjective expressions beyond their significance for the relativism-vs-contextualism debate that is so prominent in linguistics and philosophy of language, including: the types of subjective meanings that natural languages encode, the subjective dimensions of modality, and the evidential dimension of subjective predicates and attitude verbs. The aim of this workshop is to continue this trend by bringing together innovative perspectives on subjective language and thought in an interdisciplinary setting.  

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