Philosophy of Language Workshop

December 3-4, 2011

Emerson Hall, 310

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Program

Saturday, 12/3/2011

11:15 Opening
11:30 - 1:00

"Semantic Complexity"

Speaker: Maite Ezcurdia (UNAM)
Commentator: Sharon Berry (Harvard)
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30

"Generics and Blindness"

Speaker: Rachel Sterken (Oslo/Arche)
Commentator: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard)
3:35 - 5:05

"Verbal Disputes, Common Sense, and Quantifier Variance"

Speaker: David Liebesman (Boston University)
Commentator: Eli Hirsch (Brandeis)
6:30 -- Dinner/Party at home of Bernhard Nickel
Location announced at conference
All are welcome

Sunday, 12/4/2011

10:00 - 11:30

"Illuminating Contents"

Speaker: Brett Sherman (Brandeis)
Commentator: Mark Richard (Harvard)
11:35 - 1:05

"Semantics, Linguistic Competence, and Russell's Principle"

Speaker: Bernhard Nickel (Harvard)
Commentator: Herman Cappelen (Oslo/Arche)

If you have questions, please contact Bernhard Nickel.
bnickel [the at-sign] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu.