Tentative Program

Friday, November 18

Patel Center

8:00-8:45
Coffee etc., Registration

8:45-9:00
Welcome Address – Manning

9:00- 9:50
Invited Speaker
Joshua Armstrong: “’Derangement’ Defanged”

10:00-10:50
”Michael Glanzberg: “Derangement Revisited”

11:00 11:50
Richard N. Manning: “Public Language, Radical Interpretation, and Linguistic Normativity”

11:50-1:00
Lunch

1:00-2:00
Keynote Address
Michael Williams

2:10-3:00
Marija Jankovic and Greg Ray: “Glory, Knowledge, and Linguistic Communication”

3:00-3:20
Coffee Break

3:20-4:10
Kirk Ludwig: “A Nice Derangement: Much Adieu about Nothing”

Venue change to:
Traditions Hall

4:30-5:20
Invited Speaker
Kathrin Gluer-Pagin: “Malaprops, Metaphors, and Metasemantics”

5:20-6:00
Wine and Cheese

6:00-7:00
Keynote Address
Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone: “Convention Before Communication”

Saturday, November 19

8:30-9:00
Coffee

9:00-9:50
Concurrent Sessions
Michal Glietman: “A Nice Derangement of Linguistic Competence”
Daniel Hoeft: “Understanding and Language Mastery are not the Same”
Hue Woodson: “Donald Davidson’s ‘Epistemology Externalized,’ Heidegger’s άληθεια, and the Existence of Natural Language”

10:00-10:50
Concurrent Sessions
Kevin Fink: “A Plea for a Better Paragon of Modesty”
Presanjit Biswas: “Derrida's Concept Metaphors and Davidson's Malapropic Metaphors”
Huel-Rong Li: “The Normativity of Rationality in Communication”

11:00-11:50
Concurrent Sessions:
Marc Joseph: “Davidson and Sellars on Language, Meaning, and Truth”
Jessica Lynn Keiser: “Perduring Languages”

11:50-1:00
Lunch

1:00-1:50
Concurrent Sessions
Dana Riesenfeld: “The Malapropistic language of the new media”
Daniel Harris: “Prior Theories, Passing Theories, and Compositional Semantics”

2:00-2:50
Concurrent Sessions:
Joanne Waugh: “Is there any such thing as a language? The importance of material culture [or extended cognition] in the study of philosophy”
Steven Smith: “The Guidance”
Elena Cuffari: “What Linguistic Bodies Do: An Enactive Reply to Davidson”

2:50-3:10
Coffee

3:10-4:00
Concurrent Sessions
Allyson Mount: “Contextualism, Practical Interests, and the Ape Language Debate”
Charles Lassiter, “Powers of Language”
Jesse Rappaport, “A Plea for Public Language”

4:00-5:00
Keynote Address
Jeffrey Malpas: “Davidson’s Hermeneutics: Language, Place, and World”

5:00-6:00 reception