International Conference

Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives

2014, 15

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17 September Villa Feltrinelli, Gargnano (Lake Garda)

Invited Speakers

Claudia Bianchi (San Raffaele, Milano) Ernest Lepore (Rutgers) Stefano Predelli (Nottingham) Josep Maciá (Barcelona)

Contributed Speakers

Bianca Cepollaro (Normale, Pisa) Aldo Frigerio (Sacro Cuore, Milan) Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State) Aidan Gray (Illinois) Christopher Hom (Texas Tech) Robin Jeshion (Southern California) Natalia Karczewska (Warsaw) Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian) Robert May (U.C. Davis) Matt Moss (Columbia,NY) Francesca Panzeri Roberto B. Sileo (Bicocca, Milan) Mihaela Popa-W y att (Barcelona) Francois Recanati (IJN, Paris) Wojciech Rostworowski (Warsaw) Henry Schiller (Edinburgh) (Cambridge) Una Stojnic (Rutgers) Tristan Thommen (IJN, Paris)

Organizers

: C. Calabi, E. Paganini, G. Torrengo, S. Zucchi For information: [email protected]

International Conference

Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives

15 ‐ 17 September 2014 Monday 15 September

09:00 ‐ 10:00

Josep Maciá

(University of Barcelona) “Expressive Meaning and Presupposition” Commmentator:

Matt Moss

(Columbia University) 10:00 ‐ 10:30 10:30 ‐ 11:30

Coffee break

Robert May

(U.C. Davis) &

Christopher Hom

(Texas Tech University) “Pejoratives as Fiction” Commentator:

Bianca Cepollaro

(Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) 11:30 ‐ 12:30

Mihaela Popa ‐ W

Commmentator:

y att

(University of Barcelona) “Why are slurs so pernicious and hard to resist? (University of Birmingham)

Roberto B.

Sileo

(Cambridge University) 12:30 ‐ 14:30 14:30 ‐ 15:30

Lunch

Claudia Bianchi

(University San Raffaele, Milan) “Fighting words: the appropriation of derogatory epithets” Commentator:

Tristan Thommen

(Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) 15.30 ‐ 16.30

Aldo Frigerio

(University of Sacro Cuore, Milan) 16:30 ‐ 17:00 17:00 ‐ 17:45 ...

“On the semantic status of the derogatory content of pejoratives” Commentator:

Francois Recanati

(Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Coffee break

17:45 ‐ 18:30

Bianca Cepollaro

(Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) “Slurs: A Defense of a Presuppositional Account” Commentator:

Christopher Hom

(Texas Tech University)

Roberto B.

Sileo

(University of Cambridge) 18:30 ‐ 19:15 “Slurs and Truth‐conditional Content” Commentator:

Ernest Lepore

(Rutgers University)

Matt Moss

(Columbia University) “Pseudonyms” Commentator:

Josep Maciá

(University of Barcelona) 20:00

Dinner

Tuesday 16 September

09:00 ‐ 10:00

Stefano Predelli

Language” (University of Nottingham) “When the Medium is the Message. Names, Predicates, and the Use of 10:00 ‐ 10:30 Commentator:

Coffee break

Una Stojni ć

(Rutgers University) 10:30 ‐ 11:30

Heimir Geirsson

Commentator: (Iowa State University) “In The Know and Still Resisting Substitutions”

Paolo Leonardi

(University of Bologna) 11:30 ‐ 12:30

Aidan Gray

(University of Illinois) Commentator:

Elisa Paganini

“Name‐bearing, response‐dependence, and arbitrariness” (University of Milan) 12:30 ‐ 14:30 14:30 ‐ 15:30

Lunch

15.30 ‐ 16.30

Ernest Lepore

(Rutgers University) “On Perspective‐Taking and Open‐endedness in Slurring” Commmentator:

Katarzyna Kijania ‐ Placek

(Jagiellonian University)

Henry Schiller

(University of Edinburgh) “Can Physical Gestures be Treated as Descriptive Phrases?” Commmentator:

Giuliano Torrengo

(University of Milan) 16:30 ‐ 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 ‐ 17:45

Natalia Karczewska

(University of Warsaw) “Disagreement about what is not said” Commentator:

Stefano Predelli

(University of Nottingham) 17:45 ‐ 18:30

Una Stojni ć

(Rutgers University) “Discourse and Logical Form” Commentator:

Giuseppe Spolaore

(University of Padova) 18:30 ‐ 19:30

Katarzyna Kijania ‐ Placek

(Jagiellonian University) “Indexicals in Proverbs” Commentator:

Robert May

(U.C. Davis) 20:00

Dinner

Wednesday 17 September

09:00 ‐ 10:00

Francois Recanati

and

Tristan Thommen

(Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) 10:00 ‐ 11:00 “The Indexicality of Slurs” Commentator:

Natalia Karczewska

(University of Warsaw) 11:00 ‐ 11:30

Robin Jeshion

(University of Southern California) “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt” Commentator:

Marco Santambrogio

(University of Parma)

Coffee break

11:30 ‐ 12:30

Francesca Panzeri

(Bicocca University, Milan) “Slurs as fallacies” Commentator:

Wojciech Rostworowski

(University of Warsaw) 12:30 ‐ 13:30

Wojciech Rostworowski

Commentator:

Francesca & Natalia Panzeri Pietrulewicz

(University of Warsaw) “Attributive Names, Misnaming and Misdescription — Experimental Study” (Bicocca University, Milan)