CUNY Pragmatics Workshop
Relevance, Games, and Communication
Tuesday, October 14 (Room 9207)
10:15 Coffee
10:30 Rohit Parikh (CUNY) “Grice, Hoare and Nash: contributions to pragmatics from game theory and program semantics”
11:30 Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY) “What do generalizations of the Lewis signaling model tell us about information and meaning?”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Prashant Parikh (CUNY) “Deriving illocutionary meaning”
2:30 Student Presentations:
Ignacio Ojea (Columbia) “Credibility and the stability of what is conveyed”
Todd Stambaugh (CUNY) “Implicatures, etchings, and coffee”
Cagil Tasdemir (CUNY) “Influencing behavior by influencing beliefs”
3:30 Coffee
4:15 Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv/NYU) “A Typology of Players”
5:30 Reception
7:00 Speakers’ dinner
Wednesday, October 15 (Room 9207)
9:15 Coffee
9:30 Daniel Harris (CUNY) “Act-theoretic semantics for pragmatics”
10:30 Larry Horn (Yale) “Trivial pursuits: on being orderly”
11:30 Stephen Neale (CUNY) “All meaning is natural meaning?”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Robyn Carston (UCL) “Systematicity, optionality and relevance”
2:30 Student Presentations
Elmar Unnsteinsson (CUNY) “The pragmatics of malapropisms”
Marilynn Johnson (CUNY) “Why we implicate: revising Pinker’s game-theoretic proposal”
Jesse Rappaport (CUNY) “Parsimony in linguistic theorizing: a double-edged razor”
3:30 Coffee
4:15 Keynote Talk & Philosophy Colloquium
Deirdre Wilson (UCL/Oslo) “Explaining Metonymy”
6:00 Reception
7:30 Speakers’ dinner
The CUNY Pragmatics Workshop is funded by a CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CIRG# 2033) with additional support from the Program in Philosophy and the John H Kornblith Fund.
All welcome. Everything will be in Science Studies Room 5307 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue. Organized by Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Thursday 19th
11.00: Randy Gallistel – TBA
12.15: Rosa Cao – “Modular Organization and the Appeal of Information”
1.30: Lunch (probably wander to Heartland, and/or something more distributed).
2.30: Charles Rathkopf – “Information and Objectivity”
3.45: Manolo Martinez – “Signaling Games and Modality”
Friday 20th
11.00: Gill Shen, “Sender-Receiver without Senders and Receivers”
12.15: Shawn Simpson, “Communication Between Groups and Collective Entities”
1.30: Lunch
2.30: Ron Planer, “Intragenomic Signaling in the Presence of Parent-of-Origin Information”
3.45: Jesse Rappaport, “Is Human Language a Signaling System? Lessons from Pragmatics.”