Assertion and its Norms

Colloque organized by François Recanati (IJN), Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (IJN), Gregory Bochner (IEA).

With the help of :

• Institut d’Etudes Avancées
• Institut Jean Nicod
• Le Département d’Etudes Cognitives de l'Ecole normale supérieure,  (programme "New ideas in the philosophy of mind and language")

The workshop aims to provide a forum for lively and constructive exchange amongst researchers working on the following (and related) themes:

• Constitutive rules
• Norms for assertion
• Normative vs. non-normative accounts of assertion

Registration

Programme

June 3, 2019

Institut d'études avancées de Paris
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris

13h-14h: déjeuner

14h-14h15: ouverture du colloque

Président: Gregory Bochner (IEA, Paris)

14h15-15h15: Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), "Commitments and Judgements: How to Adjust the Manner and Content of your Assertions” 

15h25-16h25: Javier Gonzalez de Prado Salas (UNED, Madrid), "No Norm for (non-Asserted) Implicatures”

16h25-16h55: pause café

17h-18h: Marija Jancovic (Davidson College, Caroline du Nord), "The collectivist account of telling” 

18h-20h: apéro dinatoire

June 4, 2019 

Institut d'études avancées de Paris
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris

Président: François Recanati (Collège de France, Paris)

9h45-10h45: Manuel García-Carpintero (LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona), "Constitutive Norms and Their Normative Conditions” 

10h55-11h55: Teresa Marques (LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona), “Disagreement with a Bald-faced Liar” 

12h-13h déjeuner

Président: Sajed Tayebi (IPM, Téhéran)

13h15-14h15: Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), “Two Types of Constitutive Rules" 

14h25-15h25: Neri Marsili (LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona), “Rules and Aims: on Truth and Assertion”

15h25-15h55: pause café

Présidente: Merel Semeijn (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

16h-17h: Jonny McIntosh (Hertford College, Oxford), “In Defense of the Knowledge Norm of Assertion” 

17h10-18h10 : Markus Kneer (Universität Zürich), “Norms of Assertion: Empirical Data” 

20h: dîner du colloque

 

June 5, 2019

Ecole normale supérieure
Salle des actes
45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris

Président: Indrek Reiland (University of Edinburgh)

9h45-10h45: Bart Geurts  (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), "Assertion in a Normative Pragmatics"

10h55-11h55: Alessio Santelli (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), "Future Contingents, Branching Time, and Assertion” 

12h05-13h05: Henry Ian Schiller (University of Texas, Austin), “Assertion and Discursive Normativity”