New Trends in the Study of Implicatures

Organized by the Formal Epistemology Project, KULeuven, Institute of Philosophy

Leuven, Thursday 10 - Friday 11 december 2009, The Formal Philosophy Project, Institute of Philosophy/Center for Analytic Philosophy, Leuven

The explanation of what speakers intend to communicate by relying on the audience’s capacity to figure out what they mean by applying Gricean maxims remains an exciting and provocative field or research. For some, pragmatic explanations are an obvious tool in the explanation of speaker mean and assert, while others refer to the whole project as ‘dark pragmatic magic’ that obscures rather than illuminates the problems and issues. In this workshop new conceptual, formal and empirical approaches to the study of conventional implicatures, generalized implicatures and particularized conversational implicatures will be presented with a view to a better understanding of the Gricean phenomena.

Program

Thursday

10.00 - Coffee, welcome

10.30. -- Kent Bach (San Francisco) - Ten More Misconceptions About
Implicatures

11.45 -- Michael Blome Tillmann (McGill, Montreal) - Knowledge and
Conversational Implicatures

(Lunch at mensa)

14.30 -- Robert Van Rooij (UvAmsterdam) -- Implicatures as rational
behavior. A Bi-OT/GT analysis of Implicatures

16.00 -- Igor Douven (KULeuven) -- Lotteries, Assertion, and the Pragmatics
of Belief

17.15 -- Manuel Garcia - Carpintero (Barcelona) -- Presuppositions,
Assertions and Conventional Implicatures: Foundational Issues

Friday

10. 00 -- Eros Corazza (Carleton/San Sebastian) -- Samesaying,
Pluripropositionalism and Implicatures

11.30 -- Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) -- Generalised but not
default? Some empirical evidence for the third way for scalar implicatures

(Lunch at mensa)

14.00 -- Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) -- Free choice
explained

15. 30 -- Walter Schaeken, Kristien Dieussaert, Leen Janssens
(Leuven) -- Some effort for some: Working Memory and Scalar Implicatures

Scientific Committee

Filip Buekens (Tilburg)
Igor Douven (Leuven)
William Van Belle (Leuven)

Further inquiries

fillip Buekens (f [dot] a [dot] i [dot] buekens [at] uvt [dot] nl)

Registration: f [dot] a [dot] i [dot] buekens [at] uvt [dot] nl

Location of the workshop

Institute of Philosophy / The Van den Heuvel Institute, Dekenstraat 2, 3000 Leuven