The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
University of Wollongong
Visiting Fellow, KLI
Date:
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Time: 4
pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001
(QS Vienna) and Zoom:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92670851861?pwd=kIgYbPv4fbLuK8opQcyVyOaapAgVpW.1
Meeting ID: 926 7085 1861
Passcode: 898270
Chair: Gergely
Csibra
Title:
Naturalizing Gricean Communication: An Intentional Stance Approach
Many theorists of language origins now view language as a cultural-evolutionary product of the human capacity for Gricean communication. However, basically no
attention has been paid by these theorists to the naturalistic credentials of Grice's model of communication. The crux of the problem is that Grice's model is steeped in folk-psychological terms, and yet the question of how to locate folk-psychological states
and their properties within a scientific-naturalistic worldview has proven to be among the most recalcitrant in the whole of the philosophy of mind and psychology. In this talk, I develop one way we might attempt to settle this theoretical debt by showing
how Gricean communication - and, by extension, public language items - can be naturalized using Dennett's intentional stance theory of folk psychology. I then consider an important challenge to the proposed naturalization pathway. Put simply, the challenge
concerns the possibility of residual intentional properties at the level of subpersonal cognitive mechanisms. I conclude by distinguishing three lines of response that remain open to a proponent of my version of naturalism about Gricean communication and language.
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna
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Mariem
know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker.
Best,
Reka
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Department Coordinator
Department of cognitive SCience
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