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***Registration is now open***
Details at http://susanhurleyconference.googlepages.com/

Confirmed speakers:
José Luis Bermudéz
Sarah Jayne Blakemore
John Campbell
Andy Clark
Daniel Dennett
Alvin Goldman
Vittorio Gallese
Cecilia Heyes
Thomas Metzinger
Ruth Millikan
Alva Noë
Jesse Prinz
Nicholas Rawlins
Nicholas Shea
Kim Sterelny
Michael Wheeler

The support of the following is gratefully acknowledged: ANALYSIS Trust,
BIRTHA, BSPS, ESF, Mind Association

Further details are available on the conference website:
http://susanhurleyconference.googlepages.com/

-- 
Zoe Drayson
Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol
http://zdrayson.googlepages.com/

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Vagueness in Communication (ViC 2009)
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/~hcschmitz/esslli2009/
July 20-24, 2009

organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information ESSLLI 2009 (http://esslli2009.labri.fr/), 20-31 July, 2009 in
Bordeaux, France

Workshop Organiser:
Nikolaus Bourbax (Manfred Krifka, Rick Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli
Sauerland and Hans-Chrstian Schmitz)

The workshop is organised as an event of the VAAG project of the ESF
Eurocore LogicCC.

Workshop Purpose and Topics:
Although vagueness has long since been an important topic in philosophy,
logic and linguistics, some recent advances have made the functions of
vagueness in natural language communication an exciting and timely research
area. This renewed interest has a distinct cross-disciplinary character and
has spawned many new research questions. While the classical instruments of
dealing with vagueness -- like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or
gluts, or supervaluations -- have not been significantly extended, new
approaches investigate questions like context-sensitivtiy of vagueness
(Kyburg & Moreau 2000), the sharpening of vague predicates in context
(Barker 2002), and the modeling of precision levels with expressions like
'roughly' or 'like' (Kennedy 2007). Within the study of comparatives and
degree modification, moreover, researchers are now exploring
cross-linguistic aspects of vagueness (Beck et al 2004). On a more
fundamental level, the question why there is vagueness to begin with, what
role vagueness serves in human communication, has been addressed. For
example, it has been argued that vagueness is an epiphenomenon of the
impossibility of complete shared knowledge about the extension of many terms
(e.g. Williamson 1994), hence a consequence of the cognitive limitations of
humans. It has been shown why this does not affect the utility of these
terms in communication (Parikh 1994). Game-theoretic methods have been
employed that show that being vague or imprecise can be beneficial for
communication even if the speaker could truthfully use more precise terms
(de Jaegher 2003). Furthermore, the important role of vagueness became
evident in a number of empirical domains beyond obvious examples such as the
language of diplomacy -- for example, in geographical terms (e.g. Bennett
2008) or in the description of measures of economy (Qizilbash 2005). There
are also initial experimental investigations into the ways how speakers
interpret vague terms (e.g., Bonini e.a. 1999).

The workshop aims to bring together researchers whose work contributes to
the broad inter-disciplinary line of inquiry outlined here. In particular,
we welcome:

  * papers that broaden the empirical base for the study of vagueness, be
it linguistic or otherwise;
  * papers offering a synthesis of theories from different disciplines; and
  * papers addressing the pragmatics of vagueness.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers (including advanced PhD
students) to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers
who work in the broad subject of the disciplines relevant for particles and
modal adverbs, as represented in ESSLLI.

Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit an anonymous, extended abstract. Submissions
should not exceed 2 pages, including references. Submissions should be in
PDF format. Please submit your abstract via the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/submission_new.cgi?c=.103147. For
questions regarding the submission procedure, contact Rick Nouwen (rnouwen
[AT] gmail.com) The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme
committee.

Workshop Format:
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It
will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in
the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2-3 slots for paper presentation and
discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organisers will give
an introduction to the topic.

Invited Speakers:

  * Graeme Forbes (Boulder, Colorado)
  * Louise McNally (Barcelona)
  * N.N.

Workshop Programme Committee:

  * Graeme Forbes
  * Peter Gärdenfors
  * Hans Kamp
  * Chris Kennedy
  * Manfred Krifka
  * Manfred Kupffer
  * Louise McNally
  * Rick Nouwen
  * Barbara Partee
  * Uli Sauerland
  * Hans-Christian Schmitz
  * Marieke Schouwstra
  * Markus Schrenk
  * Robert van Rooij
  * Yoad Winter
  * Thomas Ede Zimmermann

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Febuary 15, 2009
Notification: April 1, 2009
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2009
ESSLLI early registration deadline: April 15, 2009
Final papers for proceedings: June 1, 2009
Final programme: June 19, 2009
Workshop dates: July 20-24, 2009

Local Arrangements:
All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper
will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.
There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.

Further Information about ESSLLI: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/

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Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
2 rue de Candolle, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
managing editor of dialectica
coordinator of eidos, the Genevan Center for Metaphysics
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Saturday December 6th

9.30   Registration 

9.55   Opening Mindgrad

10.00 Dan Cavedon-Taylor (Birkbeck): 'Photographic Knowledge as Displaced    Perception’
          Response: Hemdat Lerman

11.30 Coffee

12.00  Victor-Martin Aparicio (Barcelona): ‘Rationalist Compositionality or Why We Should Not   
Want it Really Reversed’ 
           Response: Michael Luntley


1.30    Lunch 

3.00    Adrienne Prettyman (Toronto): 'Could I be a Zombie'
           Response: Guy Longworth

4.30    Coffee

5.00    Keynote: David Smith

7.30    Conference meal in Casa Valle, Leamington.


Sunday December 7th

10.00   Richard Moore (Warwick): 'Meaning, Belief and Intentions to be Understood’             
            Response: TBC 

11.30   Coffee


12.00   Sebastian Watzl (Columbia): ‘The Experience of Attention’
              Response: Bill Brewer

1.30     Lunch 

3.00   Bryony Pierce (Bristol): 'Psychological Consistency and the Knobe Effect'
         Response: Steve Butterfill

4.30    Coffee

5.00    William McNeill (UCL): ‘On Perceiving that Someone is Angry’
           Response: Johannes Roessler

6.30    Closing Mindgrad

To register visit:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/mindgrad2008/registration/

Registration for the conference costs £5.

MindGrad 2008 is supported by the Philosophy Department of the University of Warwick, The 
Analysis Trust and the Aristotelian Society.

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