CSLI Workshop
Perspectives on Modality

    

Friday, April 12, 2013



       9:30 - 10:30        Coffee

       10:00 - 11:00        Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg & CSLI): Deontic logic without possible worlds slides

       11:00 - 11:15        Break

       11:15 - 12:15        Thomas Icard III (Stanford) and Wesley Holliday (Berkeley): Measure Semantics and Qualitative Semantics for Epistemic Modals slides

       12:15 - 1:30        Lunch

       1:30 - 2:30        Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern & UConn): Independencies in Counterfactuals slides handout

       2:30 - 3:15        Dan Lassiter (Stanford): The weakness of must: In defense of a mantra

       3:15 - 3:45        Break

       3:45 - 4:30        Igor Yanovich (MIT): Distinction between 'advice' and 'factual' deontics, or "Mary should buy that laptop" vs "Mary should go to jail"
       4:30 - 5:30        Anette Frank (Heidelberg): Challenges in the annotation of modal meanings and how to circumvent them