CSMN/Shared Content Workshop: Implicatures

Time and place:  Nov 3, 2007 09:00 AM - Nov 4, 2007 04:00 PM, Oslo

This workshop is organized by Herman Cappelen, Owen Greenhall and Deirdre Wilson

Place: Undervisningsrom 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus (UB), i.e. building 27 on the Campus Map

Program

Please do not cite papers without the author's permission

Saturday November 3

• 10.00-11.50 Robyn Carston (UCL, Linguistics/CSMN) "Contextualism and Implicature" (Abstract (.pdf))
• Response: Daniel Rothschild (Columbia, Philosophy)
• Lunch
• 13.00-14.50 Richard Breheny (UCL, Linguistics) ""Local Effects - Global Implicatures: The Case of 'two' and 'some'"
  " (Abstract (.pdf) Paper (.pdf))
• Response: Benjamin Spector (Harvard, Linguistics)
• 15.00-16.50 Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Linguistics): "Lessons from Over-Informativity" (Abstract (.pdf) Paper (.pdf))
• Response: Benjamin Russell (Brown, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences)
• Evening: Conference Dinner

Sunday November 4

• 10.00-11.50 Deirdre Wilson (UCL, Linguistics/CSMN) "Inference, implication and implicature" (Abstract (.pdf))
• Response: Sam Cumming (UCLA, Philosophy)
• Lunch
• 13.00-14.50 Timothy Williamson (Oxford, Philosophy) "Reference, inference and the semantics of pejoratives" ( Paper (.pdf))
• Response: Ofra Magidor (Oxford, Philosophy)
• 15.00-16.50 Laurence Horn (Yale, Linguistics) "In defence of neo-Fregean implicature" (Abstract (.pdf)) (Prof. Horn's talk will develop themes from the paper Toward a Fregean Pragmatics (.pdf))
• Response: Eliza Block (NYU, Philosophy)
• Evening: Conference Dinner

This workshop is open to all who wish to attend, those not affiliated with CSMN/UiO should contact Owen Greenhall owen.greenhall@philosophy.ox.ac.uk for further details.