Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Anandi Hattiangadi, Stockholm)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In her talk, "Logical Disagreement", Prof. Hattiangadi investigates three approaches to the semantics of normative statements and judgments in application to logical disagreement, and argues that none of these semantic theories is able to provide an adequate account of what we disagree about when we disagree about logic.

Jewish Philosophy Research Group Talk (Josef Stern, Chicago)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prof. Stern will deliver a talk on "Maimonides and the Falasifa on Certainty and the Certainty of Prophecy."  His research is broadly in contemporary philosophy of language and medieval philosophy, especially Arabic and Jewish philosophy. 

Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Louis DeRosset, University of Vermont)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prof. DeRosset's research is focused on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, with a particular interest in the metaphysics of modality, and the utility and limits of explanation and reduction in metaphysics. He will deliver a talk titled “Skepticism about Grounding”.

Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Gabriel Greenberg, UCLA)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Professor Greenberg's research is oriented around language, mind, and depiction. His publications include “Beyond Resemblance”, in Philosophical Review (2013), and “Varieties of Iconicity”, in a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2015).

What is language? Q&A with Philippe Schlenker (NYU/Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

New North Building, Rm. 1210, UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd., Mississauga, ON, Canada

What is language? How does it compare to music? Does language have an inner logical spine? How does human language compare to the communication systems of other animals? Distinguished Visiting Professor Philippe Schlenker will be visiting UTM for conversations with faculty and students. Ask him anything!

Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Craige Roberts, Ohio State/NYU)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Professor Roberts' areas of specialization are formal semantics and pragmatics. She has been working on long-term projects that pertain to projective meaning and natural language metaphysics. She will deliver a talk titled "The Character of Epistemic Modals in Natural Language: Evidential Indexicals."

Alexander Lecture: Christopher Mole (UBC)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This year's Alexander Lecture welcomes Christopher Mole, Chair of the Programme in Cognitive Systems at UBC where he also teaches in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Mole will deliver a talk on “Dynamic Semantics, Embodied Syntax, and the Evidence of Sign-Language Aphasia”

Guest Lecture by Jason Stanley (Yale)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, is renowned for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, whose tools in his more recent work he brings to bear on questions of political philosophy.

Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 1040

Roy A. Sorensen is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Jackman Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. He has research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, areas in which he has published widely.

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