Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Semantics and Pragmatics

Location
Arts building - lecture room 5
Dates
Friday 22 November 2013 (11:00-18:00)
Contact

Professor Scott Sturgeon (email: s.sturgeon@bham.ac.uk)

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The presentations of this workshop all address the very basic questions of philosophy of language. The workshop is the second event in our department's new Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy series.

Programme:

  • 11am Alex Silk (Birmingham): "Discourse Contextualism: A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics"
  • 2pm Stephen Neale (Birmingham, CUNY): “Implicit Reference”
  • 4pm Deirdre Wilson (UCL): “Communication and Speaker's Meaning: What's the difference, and does it matter?”

This event is free and open to all. For more information, please Professor Scott Sturgeon (s.sturgeon@bham.ac.uk).