All talks are from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in room 32-141 (unless otherwise indicated). For further information, please contact Yurika, Juan or Keely. This schedule is subject to change; please check back for changes.
- October 6, 2023
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Colloquium: Natalie Weber
October 6, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- October 20, 2023
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Colloquium: Lucas Champollion
October 20, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
See more detailsTitle: The Limits of Possible Worlds Semantics
Abstract: The standard paradigm of possible world semantics fails to account for the subject-matter preserving nature of entailment and for discrepancies between connectives in propositional logic and in natural language. These discrepancies show up in empirical domains such as imperatives and counterfactuals. This calls for a paradigm shift towards a hyperintensional framework. I adopt unilateral truthmaker semantics in the sense of Fine (2017), with a concomitant move from intersective to collective conjunction. I conceptualize truthmakers as Davidsonian events. This yields a natural conception of negative events. I…
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- November 3, 2023
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Colloquium: Yoonjung Kang
November 3, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- December 1, 2023
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Colloquium: Sigrid Beck
December 1, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- December 8, 2023
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Colloquium: Benjamin Spector
December 8, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
See more detailsExtended Visit. Details will be available at a later date.
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- February 9, 2024
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Colloquium: Nicholas Rolle
February 9, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
See more detailsExtended Visit. Details will be available at a later date.
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- March 8, 2024
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Colloquium: Heidi Harley
March 8, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- March 15, 2024
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Colloquium: Rajesh Bhatt
March 15, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- April 5, 2024
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Colloquium: Amanda Rysling
April 5, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- April 26, 2024
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Colloquium: Idan Landau
April 26, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. 32-141, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- May 10, 2024
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Colloquium: Yosef Grodzinsky (Hebrew University)
May 10, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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