[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder (November 26, 4 pm) : Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong) - Naturalizing Gricean Communication: An Intentional Stance Approach

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Ronald J. Planer<https://scholars.uow.edu.au/ronald-planer> 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 must reply here<https://forms.office.com/e/EKwni8cN4W> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Mariem know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01DC5E03.032DD380] CEU GmbH - CEU Central European University private university Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, Room B502 Office: +43 125230 5138 cognitivescience.ceu.edu<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>| www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> See CEU story: www.youtube.com/ceuhungary<http://www.youtube.com/ceuhungary> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CEU is committed to energy and environmental sustainability www.ceu.hu/sustainability<http://www.ceu.hu/sustainability> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wJmntYV9xI46HE4vvhea1QVsjj…] Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail message, ask yourself whether you really need a hard copy. ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu