Program
International Conference Program
Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives
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 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 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-Wjatt (University of Barcelona)
"Why are slurs so pernicious and hard to resist?"
Commmentator: Roberto B. Sileo (Cambridge University)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 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)
“On the semantic status of the derogatory content of pejoratives”
Commentator: Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:45 Bianca Cepollaro (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
“Slurs: A Defense of a Presuppositional Account”
Commentator: Christopher Hom (Texas Tech University)
17:45 - 18:30 Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge)
“Slurs and Truth-conditional Content”
Commentator: Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)
18:30 - 19:15 Matt Moss (Columbia University)
“Pseudonyms”
Commentator: Josep Maciá (University of Barcelona)
20:00 Dinner
Tuesday 16 September
09:00 - 10:00 Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)
“When the Medium is the Message. Names, Predicates, and the Use of Language”
Commentator: Una Stojnić (Rutgers University)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University)
“In The Know and Still Resisting Substitutions”
Commentator: Clotilde Calabi (University of Milan)
11:30 - 12:30 Aidan Gray (University of Illinois)
“Name-bearing, response-dependence, and arbitrariness”
Commentator: Elisa Paganini (University of Milan)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University)
"On Perspective-Taking and Open-endedness in Slurring"
Commmentator: Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University)
15.30 - 16.30 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 Stojnić (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)
“The Indexicality of Slurs”
Commentator: Natalia Karczewska (University of Warsaw)
10:00 - 11:00 Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California)
“Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt”
Commentator: Marco Santambrogio (University of Parma)
11:00 - 11:30 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 & Natalia Pietrulewicz (University of Warsaw)
“Attributive Names, Misnaming and Misdescription — Experimental Study”
Commentator: Francesca Panzeri (Bicocca University, Milan)