This year's Philosophers' Rally will be preceded by a special workshop revolving around the topic of content: From Content to Contents and Back .
“What is content?” – this short question happens to be one of the most complex and important ones addressed in the contemporary philosophy of language and mind. Recent discussions concerning the notion of content revolve around the idea of content pluralism: many philosophers assume that it is in principle possible for a single utterance or thought to express (without being ambiguous) contents of different types (moderate contextualism) as well as to express different contents of a single type (theories that combine narrow and wide approach to content, pluripropositionalism). The aim of the workshop is to critically examine various assumptions made by these theories and their rivals and to discuss general methodological issues concerning semantic concepts of meaning and content .
DATE: the 2nd of July, 2014
LOCATION: University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw, Old Library Building, Room 205 (2nd floor)
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE/PROGRAMME:
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9.15-9.30 Introduction/Workshop Opening
9.30-10.30 Isidora Stojanovic:
Prepragmatics Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary;
PAPER
10.30-11.10 Piotr Wilkin (University of Warsaw):
Long commentary to: Isidora Stojanovic, Prepragmatics Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary;
ABSTRACT
11.10-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.10 Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw):
Long commentary to: Isidora Stojanovic, Prepragmatics Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary;
ABSTRACT
12.10-12.50 Leszek Wroński (Jagiellonian University):
Long commentary – The Premises and Presuppositions behind the 'Pre' Prefix – Commentary on Stojanovic's 'Prepragmatics';
ABSTRACT
12.50-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15 Francesco Spada (University of Pisa):
On what underlies radical contextualism;
ABSTRACT
15.15-15.45: Short commentary to: Francesco Spada: On what underlies radical contextualism (Paweł Grabarczyk (University of Lodz)), dicussion
15.45-16.30 Paweł Grabarczyk (University of Lodz):
Directival theory of meaning as a theory of narrow content;
ABSTRACT
PAPER
16.30-17.00: Short commentary to: Paweł Grabarczyk: Directival theory of meaning as a theory of narrow content (Tadeusz Ciecierski (University of Warsaw)), dicussion
17.00-17.15 Coffee Break
17.15-18.00 Tom Wysocki (Washington University, St. Louis):
The Faults of Creepkenstein;
PAPER
18.00-18.30 Short commentary to: Tom Wysocki: The Faults of Creepkenstein (Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University)), dicussion
All persons interested in participating in the workshop are kindly asked to register by sending an e-mail entitled 'Workshop registration' including their name and affiliation to: zlot[at]obf.edu.pl. The participation in the workshop is free. Since the number of places is limited, we recommend to do this as quickly as possible.
The workshop language is English.
