‘Cognitive Approaches to Propositions or their Replacements’ Friday, June 13, 2014 NYU, Department of Philosophy 2nd floor Workshop descriptions The notion of an abstract proposition (a set of circumstances or a structured proposition) plays a central role in standard approaches to propositional attitudes and the semantics of attitude reports. However, the notion raises an important […]

Monday, September 8th, 2014 Talk: 5-7 PM, Room 5414 Mixer: 7-8 PM, Room 7113 Professor Jessica Moss (NYU) will present at SWIP-Analytic Monday, September 8th from 5:00-7:00 PM at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Room 5414. Her talk title is "Dual Systems in 400 BC: Plato and the Origins of Contemporary Psychology". Abstract: Proponents of contemporary […]

September 12:  Elisabeth Camp Philosophy, Rutgers University Title TBA Fall 2014, Fridays, 1-3 pm, Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center A pdf flier listing talks is at http://tinyurl.com/cstalks   Organized by David Rosenthal, Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science http://tinyurl.com/dr-cuny. Email: [email protected].

Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Oct. 8      Sarah Buss, University of Michigan TBA

October 9th Katherine Ritchie (CCNY) We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker either presents a piece of their own work (perhaps in-progress) or gives an opinionated tour of some other work in the philosophy of language with which their own […]

 Fall 2014 Professor Deirdre Wilson (UCL & CSMN, Oslo) will present at SWIP-Analytic Monday, October 13th from 5:00 - 7:00 at New York University, in the second floor seminar room 202, 5 Washington Place. Her talk is entitled "Irony, hyperbole, jokes and banter: What should a theory of verbal irony aim to explain?". See abstract […]

CUNY Pragmatics Workshop: Relevance, Games, and Communication 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 […]

NYU Philosophy's next colloquium speaker will be Jennifer Lackey from Northwestern, giving a talk entitled "Group Lies" next Friday, October 17.  It will be held in room 202 of 5 Washington Place.  A reception will follow in the 6th floor lounge. Colloquia are on selected Fridays from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, and will take place in […]

Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Oct. 22 Lisa Warenski, City College, CUNY “An Anchor for the Expressivist Raft?"

October 30th Vera Flocke (NYU) We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker either presents a piece of their own work (perhaps in-progress) or gives an opinionated tour of some other work in the philosophy of language with which their own […]