Disagreement in Semantics

The workshop pertains to the Lise Meitner project Disagreement and the Semantics of Perspectival Expressions (M 2220-G24) and aims to engage with recent developments in the contemporary debate about the semantics of perspectival expressions (predicates of taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral terms, epistemic vocabulary, gradable adjectives etc.) between relativism, contextualism, absolutism and expressivism. Attendance is free, but please send a message to danczeman[at]gmail.com if you plan to attend (for logistic reasons). The event is fully accessible.

Here is the program of the workshop:

Monday, May 7
10.00-11.15: Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod), "Disagreements about Taste vs. Disagreements about Moral Matters"
Comments: Carlos Núñez (University of Vienna)
Coffee break
11.30-12.45: Sanna Hirvonen, "Two Error Theories for Judgments of Taste"
Comments: Tom Fery (University of Vienna)
Lunch
14.00-15.15: Alexander Davies (University of Tartu), "Meta-linguistic Negotiation, Coordination and Identity Display"
Comments: Katharina Anna Sodoma (University of Vienna)
15.15-16.30: Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw), "Faultless and Genuine Disagreement over Vague Predicates"
Comments: Robin McKenna (University of Vienna)
Coffee break
16.45-18.00: Julia Zakkou (University of Hamburg/Free University Berlin) & Alexander Dinges (University of Hamburg), "A Direction Effect on Taste Predicates"
Comments: Max Kölbel (University of Vienna)
20.00: Dinner

Tuesday, May 8
9.00-10.15: Mihai Hîncu (Valahia University of Târgoviște) & Dan Zeman (University of Vienna), "On Wyatt's Absolutist Solution to the Problem of Faultless Disagreement"
Comments: Delia Belleri (University of Vienna)
10.15-11.30: Marián Zouhar (Comenius University), "On the Insufficiency of Taste Expressivism"
Comments: Triinu Eesmaa (University of Vienna)
Coffee break
11.45-13.00: Alexander Dinges (University of Hamburg), "Relativism and Conservatism"
Comments: Victoria Lavorerio (University of Vienna)

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