Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology IV
Modals and Evaluatives: Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives
Buenos Aires, July 11-13, 2018
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
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
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