VAGUENESS AND LANGUAGE USE
April 7-9, 2008 École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris Organizers: Paul Égré (IJN)
Nathan Klinedinst (UCL) Timetable
NB. All plenary sessions take place in Salle Dussane All coffee breaks will take place in the rotunda of Salle Dussane
Monday, April 7 9:00
Registration & Opening
DUSSANE
10:00 DUSSANE
Agustín Rayo (MIT)
A Plea for Localism Chair: P. Égré
11:00 Coffee break 11:30 DUSSANE
Chris Kennedy (U. of Chicago)
Vagueness and Comparison Chair: N. Klinedinst
12:30 Lunch Break 14:30 DUSSANE
INFO 2
Elia Zardini
Elisa Paganini
(Arché/St Andrews)
(Università degli Studi di Milano)
Models of Tolerance
Vagueness and Omniscience Chair: J. Dokic
Chair: D. Bonnay
15:10 15:15 DUSSANE
INFO 2
Pablo Cobreros
Scott Fults
(University College London)
(U. of Maryland, College Park)
Borderline, Yet Not Definitely So
Vagueness, Semantic Representation and Verification
Chair: D. Bonnay
Chair: J. Dokic
16:00 Coffee break 16:30 DUSSANE
INFO 2
Phil Serchuk
Jean-Roch Lauper
(University of Toronto)
(University of Friburg)
Vagueness, Logic and Use
Vagueness and Ordinary Understanding of Measurement Phrases
Chair: D. Bonnay
17:10 17:15 DUSSANE
Chair: J. Dokic
Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin)
Approximating Expressions and Vagueness Chair: C. Barker
End: 18:15
Tuesday, April 8 9:30
DUSSANE
Robert van Rooij (ILLC Amsterdam)
In Defense of Comparison Classes Chair: F. Récanati
10:30 Coffee break 11:00 DUSSANE
INFO 5
Galit Sassoon
Matthew Carmody
(Ben Gurion University of the Neguev)
(Richmond/Thames College, London)
Vagueness Pertaining to Numerical Degree Constructions
Indeterminate Reference Chair: I. Stojanovic
Chair: D. Nicolas
11:40 11:45 DUSSANE
INFO 5
Yael Sharvit
Ofra Magidor
(University of Connecticut)
(Balliol College, Oxford)
Plural Superlatives, Distributivity and Context-Dependency
Epistemicism about Vagueness and Metalinguistic Safety
Chair: D. Nicolas
Chair: I. Stojanovic
12:30 Lunch break
14:30 DUSSANE
INFO 5
Sebastiano Moruzzi
David Etlin
(University College London)
(MIT)
Vague Desire: the Sorites and the Money Pump
Borderline Cases and Permissibility Chair: A. Barberousse
15:10 15:15 DUSSANE
Chair: B. Hill INFO 5
Emily Fletcher
Caspar Hare
(University of Toronto)
(MIT)
Normative Predicates and Vagueness
Vagueness and Rationality
Chair: A. Barberousse
Chair: B. Hill
16:00 Coffee break 16:30 DUSSANE
Peter Pagin
(Stockholm/LOGOS)
Vagueness and Domain Restriction Chair: B. Smith
End: 17:30
Conference dinner: 7.30pm, at the Bouillon Racine, 3, rue Racine – 75006 – Paris
Wednesday, April 9 9:30
DUSSANE
Chris Barker (NYU)
Achieving Clarity Chair: C. Kennedy
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 DUSSANE
INFO 5
Rick Nouwen
Kevin Connolly
(OTS, Utrecht University)
(University of Toronto)
Graded Predication by Evaluation
Vague Color Predicates
Chair: R. van Rooij
11:40 11:45 DUSSANE
Chair: P. Ludwig INFO 5
Ariel Cohen
John Zeimbekis
(Ben Gurion University of the Neguev)
(University of Grenoble)
Clarity and Objectivized Belief
Soritic Series and Phenomenal Types
Chair: R. van Rooij
Chair: P. Ludwig
12:30 Lunch break
14:30 DUSSANE
INFO 5
Daniel Lassiter (NYU)
Michael Freund (University Paris 4)
An Interpretive Theory of Vagueness
Membership for Constructible Concepts
Chair: E. Zardini
Chair: S. Moruzzi
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 DUSSANE
Delia Graff Fara (Princeton)
Context, Content, Interests and Saying the Same Thing Chair: S. Schiffer
16:45
End of the Conference
Post-conference event: Stephen Schiffer (NYU), presents 'Vagueness, Concepts, and Properties: a NonSemantic and Non-Psychological Account of Vagueness', as part of a series of invited lectures in the ENS Dept. of Philosophy. time: Thursday April 10, 10h30-12h30; place: salle des Résistants (ENS, 1st floor).
