NYC language and mind reading group

Spring 2025 Schedule

Sporadic meetings on Stalnaker's Inquiry. 

Fall 2024 Schedule

9/17: Buchanan & Schiller, “Pragmatic Particularism” (invited visit from Schiller)

9/24: Quilty-Dunn, “Perceptual Pluralism” (invited visit from the author)

10/1: Marr, Vision, chapter 1

10/8: Fodor, “Propositional Attitudes”

10/15: No meeting [CUNY follows Monday schedule]

10/22: Stalnaker, Inquiry (chapter 1)

10/29: Stalnaker, Inquiry (chapter 2)

11/5: Leahy & Carey, “The acquisition of modal concepts”

11/12: Davidson, “The Logical Form of Action Sentences”

11/19: Armstrong, “Communication before communicative intentions”

11/26: No meeting [Thanksgiving] 

12/3: Ritchie & Prasada, "Explaining systematic polysemy"

12/10: Zyglewicz, Work in Progress on Slur Reclamation (invited visit from the author)

Summer 2024

6/12: Fodor, Language of Thought (pp. 1-54)

6/19: Fodor, LoT (pp. 55-98)

6/26: Fodor, LoT (pp. 99-156)

7/3: Fodor, LoT (157-end)

7/10: Quilty-Dunn, Porot, Mandelbaum, “The Best Game in Town”

7/17: Jeff King, “Speaker Intentions in Context”

7/24: No meeting

7/31: Carey, The Origin of Concepts (chapter 7)

8/7: Carey, TOOC (chapter 8)

8/14: Carey, TOOC (chapter 13)

Spring 2024 

2/9: Camp (2009), “A Language of Baboon Thought?” 

2/16: Maley (2023), “Analogue Computation and Representation”

2/23: Ball (2018), “Semantics as Measurement”

3/1: Pietroski (2005), “Meaning before Truth” (pp.253-274)

3/8: Pietroski (2005), “Meaning before Truth” (pp.274-300)

3/15: Stojnić (2021), “Just Words: Intentions, Tolerance, and Lexical Selection”

3/22: Soren Schlassa, work-in-progress talk

3/29: Greenberg (2022), “The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum”

4/5: Camp (2009), “Putting Thoughts to Work: Concepts, Systematicity, and Stimulus Independence”

4/19: Bratman (1984), “Two Faces of Intention”

5/10: Doggett and Egan (2007), “Wanting Things You Don’t Want” (invited visit from the authors)

Fall 2023

9/21: Stalnaker, "Common Ground" 

9/28: Mandelbaum, "Thinking is Believing," (pp. 55-75)

10/5: Mandelbaum, "Thinking is Believing," (pp. 75-end)

10/12: Unnsteinsson, "A Gricean Theory of Malaprops" (invited visit from the author)

10/19: Lepore & Stone, "Against Metaphorical Meaning"

10/26: Buchanan, "A Puzzle about Meaning and Communication"

11/2: Harris, "Semantics Without Semantic Content" (invited visit from the author)

11/9: Quilty-Dunn, "Polysemy and Thought: Toward a Generative Theory of Concepts" (invited visit from the author)

11/16: Davidson, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs"

12/7: Karen Lewis, "The Speaker Authority Problem for Context-Sensitivity (Or: You Can’t Always Mean What You Want)"

Summer 2023

6/7: Fodor, Modularity of Mind, chs. 1-2 

6/14: Fodor, Modularity of Mind, ch. 3

6/21: Fodor, Modularity of Mind, chs. 4-5

6/28: Carston, "Linguistic meaning, communicated meaning, and cognitive pragmatics”

7/5: Stalnaker, “Assertion”

7/12: Davidson, “Thought and Talk”

7/19: Camp, “Metaphor and that certain je ne sais quoi”

7/26: Camp, “Thinking with maps” (invited visit from the author)

8/2: Pietroski, "One Word, Many Concepts: Endorsing Polysemous Meanings"

8/9: Nolan, “Impossible Fictions Part II”

8/16: Green and Quilty-Dunn, “What is an object file?” (invited visit from Quilty-Dunn)