Dear Colleagues,
We'd like to call your attention to CEU's upcoming summer
course “MEANING, CONTEXT, INTENTION”. Also, we would
greatly appreciate your help in promoting the course among your colleagues,
your graduate students, or any interested researchers. We’d be grateful if you
could forward the information below to those potentially
interested in
our summer school (individuals, listservs, blogs,
electronic journals, etc.)
and/or have a short announcement placed on a
relevant web site.
Thank you in advance, yours sincerely,
Zsófia Zvolenszky
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“MEANING, CONTEXT, INTENTION”
Course dates: JULY 19-30, 2010
Location: Central European
University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary,
Detailed course description:
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/meaningTuition fee: EUR
550. Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 15,
2010
Course directors:
* Zsofia Zvolenszky, Eötvös University (ELTE), Institute of
Philosophy,
Budapest, Hungary;
* Jason Stanley, Rutgers, Philosophy
Department, New Brunswick, USA;
Jason Stanley, Zsófia Zvolenszky
Faculty:
* Ray
Buchanan, University of Texas, Philosophy Department, Austin,
USA
*
Herman Cappelen, University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy,
UK
*
Wayne A. Davis, Georgetown University, Philosophy Department,
Washington
DC, USA
* Katalin Farkas, Central European University,
Philosophy
Department
* Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University, Center for
Cognitive Science,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick US
* Stephen Neale,
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
* Adam Sennet, University of California,
Davis, Department of
Philosophy, USA
* Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Yale
University, Department of Philosophy, USA
What we express, communicate by uttering a sentence
varies with the context of utterance. What is the role of semantics in bringing
this about? According to one simple model, a semantic theory assigns to
sentences relative to contexts what would be expressed by those sentences in
normal assertive utterances, by assigning values to the meaningful parts of the
sentences in those contexts and combining them via a recursive process.
According to another, radically different model, the meanings of words are rules
that constrain the use of expressions, but there is no notion of what is said by
a sentence (as opposed to the person) that matches the speaker's communicative
intentions, and that plays a fundamental role in the account of communication.
There are many versions of each of these views of linguistic communication. How
we think about language is determined by which we adopt. The purpose of this
course is to bring together leading researchers who have formed the debate,
together with some younger researchers with new approaches.
This summer
school invites applications from junior faculty and doctoral students at
philosophy and linguistics departments. Minimum background required: philosophy
of language at the advanced undergraduate level. Participants should ideally
bring some work in progress related to the course theme for discussion during
the course.