Workshop on Nominalizations

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We are happy to announce our upcoming workshop on Nominalizations. The workshop will take place in room 121 of the main building of the Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (west wing) on April 25-26.

The speakers and their talks (ordered as scheduled) are:

  • Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart): On two types of English nominalized adjectives and the lexicalization of properties
  • Thomas Hofweber (Chapel Hill): The non-referential picture of language
  • Arvid Båve (Hamburg/Gothenburg): The function of nominalisations
  • Robert Schwartzkopff (Hamburg): The Fregean misconception of number(word)s as object(word)s
  • David Nicolas (Jean Nicod): Derived mass nouns, tropes, states and events
  • Katharina Felka (Hamburg): On easy arguments for numbers
  • Graeme Forbes (Colorado, Boulder): Proposition-descriptions and their “that”-clauses
  • David Liggins (Manchester): Propositions and “that”-clauses revisited

More information on the schedule can be found on the workshop’s poster.

The workshop is funded by the DFG, the Humboldt Foundation, and the DFG/ANR project Nominalizations.

Attendance will be free but participants are asked to register with the organizers (please write an email to: katharina.felka@uni-hamburg.de).

Fourth Paris-Hamburg Ontology Workshop

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The Nominalizations project is holding the

Fourth Paris-Hamburg Ontology Workshop

September 2, 2014.

IHPST, Grande Salle
13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris
metro Mabillon

Speakers are:

  • Katharina Felka (Hamburg): ‘Presuppositions and truth-value intuitions’
  • Robert Schwartzkopff (Hamburg): ”The number of Jupiter’s moons is four’ as a higher-order identity statement’
  • Alexander Steinberg (Mainz): ‘Propositions and that-clauses’
  • Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris): ‘Cognitive products and the semantics of attitude verbs’

To see the complete programme, click here.

Workshop in Gothenburg

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Benjamin Schnieder and the phlox research group are happy to announce, as part of the on-going Nominalizations project, the following upcoming workshop:

Talking of Something or Talking of Nothing?

When? On Saturday, 18 / 01 / 2014
Where? University of Gothenburg – Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Philosophy of Science, Room T340

Programme
(To read an abstract, just click on the title of the talk.)

10.00 – 11.15 David Liggins (Manchester):
Unpropositional attitudes
11.30 – 12.45 Arvid Båve (Stockholm/Gothenburg):
Are that-clauses singular terms?
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15:30 Matti Eklund (Uppsala):
Carnap and Contemporary Metaontology
15.30 – 16.45 Robert Schwartzkopff (Oxford/Hamburg):
Syntactic Decisiveness: A Critical Defence
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee
17.15 – 18.30 Benjamin Schnieder (Gothenburg/Hamburg):
Talking About Properties

The workshop is open to the public. If you have any questions, contact the organizer, Benjamin

Fiction/alism Workshop

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Professor Benjamin Schnieder and the phlox research group are happy to announce, as part of the on-going Nominalizations project, the following upcoming workshop:

Fiction/alism: Fiction in Metaphysics, Language, and Methodology 

4-5 October – University of Hamburg – Department of Philosophy

Room 1052 – Von-Melle-Park 6 – Hamburg – 20146

Preliminary Programme

Friday 4 October
13.00 – 14:30 Robert Schwartzkopff (Oxford):
Fictionalism and Inferential Oddity
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee
15.00 – 16.30 Richard Woodward (Hamburg):
To Have and to Hold
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee
17.00 – 18.30 Christian Folde (Hamburg):
Exploring Fictional Consequence
Saturday 5 October
10.00 – 11.30 Mark Jago (Nottingham):
Fictional Names & Fictional Worlds
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 13.30 Maria Kuper (Hamburg):
Fictional Names – Frege vs. Mill
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16:30 Fiora Salis (Lisbon):
Fictionally Creating Fictional Characters
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee
17.00 – 18.30 Graham Priest (CUNY/Melbourne):
Sein Language

The workshop is open to the public, though we ask that anyone interested in attending contact the organizer, Nathan Wildman