Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology IV

Modals and Evaluatives: Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives

Buenos Aires, July 11-13, 2018

July 11

10:30 - 11:00

Welcome coffee

11:00 - 12:00

Kepa Korta (EHU/UPV)

Denotation wars

12:15 - 13:15

Amir Anvari (IJN, DEC, ENS), Mora Maldonado (IJN/LSCP, DEC, ENS) and Andrés Soria Ruiz (IJN, DEC, ENS)

Reflexive belief in Spanish

13:15 - 15:30

Lunch break

15:30 - 16:30

Justina Díaz Legaspe (IIF-SADAF, CONICET/UNLP)

What slurs are not

16:45 - 17:45

Eduardo García Ramírez (IIF-UNAM)

Naturalist moral realism and the language analogy

17:45 - 18:15

Coffee break

18:15 - 19:15

Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)

Expressive evaluatives on the side: Projection, discourse, and attitudes

July 12

10:30 - 11:00

Welcome coffee

11:00 - 12:00

Andrés Soria Ruiz (IJN, DEC, ENS)

The dynamics of value judgment

12:15 - 13:15

Federico Jaimes (UBA)

Similarity indexicalism, propositional anaphora and semantic pluralism

13:15 - 15:30

Lunch break

15:30 - 16:30

Javier González de Prado Salas (IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon)

A relativistic framework for non-descriptive assertions

16:45 - 17:45

Andrés Saab (IFyLH, CONICET/UBA)

On the limits between expressivity and evaluativity

17:45 - 18:15

Coffee break

18:15 - 19:15

María de Ponte Azcárate (Universidad de Sevilla)

Utterances, mathematics and beauty

July 13

12:00 - 13:00

Ana Clara Polakof (UdelaR/SNI)

El hecho de que p and its epistemic modality

13:00 - 15:30

Lunch break

15:30 - 16:30

Ramiro Caso (IIF-SADAF, CONICET/UBA)

Preclusion as a modal relation

16:45 - 17:45

Adam Marushak (University of Pittsburgh)

A Kratzerian semantics for reasons

17:45 - 18:15

Coffee break

18:15 - 19:15

Max Kölbel (Universität Wien)

On an attempted Reduction of the evaluative to the Modal, and of the Modal to the Natural