Talks

Recent and forthcoming talks

'Natural Language Ontology', invited session, Z. Szabo: undergraduate course Introduction to Philosophy of Language, Yale, December 2, 2020 (via ZOOM).
TBA, Colloquium talk, University of Turin, October 13, 2020 (via ZOOM)
'Mass nouns and variable embodiments', Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 5, 2020 (via ZOOM)
TBA, workshop The Philosophical Significance of Noneism, organized by D. Rami, Bochum, October 23-24, 2020, postponed to 2021.
TBA, Conference on StephenYablo, Paris, organized by F. Recanati and J.-P. Rouzy, Paris, September 24-26, 2020, postponed to 2021.
TBA, invited talk, University of Constance, July 1, 2020, postponed.
'Natural Language Ontology', weekend minicourse, NASSLLI Brandeis, July 12-20, 2020, postponed to 2021.
'The Ontology of Mathematics and the Ontology of Natural Language', Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, organized by John Burgess and Silvia de Toffoli, Princeton, April 3-5, 2020, cancelled.
'Levels of Ontology. The Case of the Ontology of Parts and Wholes'. Conference Conceptualising Reality in the Aristotelian Tradition and Beyond. Gothenburg, February 7-9, 2020.
'Truthmaker Semantics for Intensional Transitive Verbs', Workshop Looks, Attitudes, and Syntactic Embedding, co-organized with J. Bledin (John Hopkins) and K. Fine, NYU, November 1, 2019.
'Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics and its Application to Intensional Transitive Verbs'. Special session 'Truthmaker Semantics',Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, Warsaw, September 21, 2019.
Tutorial 'Truthmaker Semantics' (given jointly with Kit Fine), Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, Warsaw, September 20, 2019
'Twardowski's Distinction between Actions and Products. Its Importance and Its Limitations', Lvov-Warsaw School Lecture, Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, Warsaw, September 20, 2019.
'Cases as Truthmakers', Truthmaker Semantics: Applications in Philosophy and Linguistics, organized by Stephan Kraemer, University of Hamburg, July 29-31, 2019.
Two invited lectures, Hamburg Summerschool 'Truthmaker Semantics' (K. Fine and M. Jago), University of Hamburg, July 22-26, 2019.
Meeting of the DFG/WR Excellence Strategy, Bonn, July 16-19, 2019.
'The Core-Periphery Distinction in the Conceptual and Ontological Domain of Language '. Séminaire Général, IHPST, Paris, July 3, 2019.
'Truth Predicates, Truth Bearers and theirVariants', Semantic Paradox, Context, and Generality, organized by Julien Murzi and Lorenzo Rossi, University of Salzburg, June 26-28, 2019
'Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics for Modals and Attitude Reports', conference Explaining explanation using new developments in logic and formal semantics. Hyperintensionality, relevance, counterfactuals, grounding and truth-maker semantics, organized by P. Verdee, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, May 6-8, 2019.
'The Core-Periphery Distinction in Syntax, Semantics, and Natural Language Ontology', NYU Semantics Workshop and NYU Syntax Brown Bag, May 3, 2019. Abstract
'Truthmaker Semantics, Factivity and the Underspecification of Attitudes', Work-in-progress Workshop on Truthmaker Semantics, NYU, April 19, 2019
'Situations, Alternatives, and the Semantics of Cases', New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, April 15, 2019
Visit of universities in the context of the Excellence Initiative, DFG/WG, Germany, March 11-15, 2019
'Twardowski's Distinction between Actions and Products. Some Issues', Phenomenologies of Signs: Words, Symbols, Icons and Indications, organized by Hélène Leblanc, Claudio Majolino, and Hamid Taieb, University of Lille, December 3-4, 2018.
'Natural Language Ontology: Prospects and Challenges', Oasis 1 Conference, organized by B. Copley, Paris 8, Paris, November 28-30, 2018.
Meeting of the Committee of Experts, Excellence Initiative of the DFG/WR, Bonn, September 25-28, 2018.
'Attitude Reports with Attitudinal Object s', plenary speaker, Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, Duesseldorf, September 12-14, 2018.
'Natural Language Ontology'. Advanced Course, ESSLLI Summer School, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 6-17, 2018
'Natural Language Ontology', invited lecture series, Summer School for Female Students, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, July 17-20, 2018
'Natural Language Ontology', invited compact seminar (30hrs), University of Duesseldorf, July 6/7 and 13/14, 2018
'The Semantics of Cases'. Invited talk, SFB 'Frames', University of Dusseldorf, July 12, 2018.
'Truth Bearers, Truthmakers, and their Variants', invited talk, Philosophy Department, University of Dusseldorf, July 11, 2018.
'Attitudinal and Modal Objects', conference Objects and Properties: Generating Dialogue, organized by C. Rossi, Cambridge University, June 29-30, 2018.
Panel Meeting for the Excellence Initiative, 'Natural Sciences', Berlin, June 26-28, 2018.
'Situations, Alternatives, and the Semantics of 'Cases''. Poster presentation at SALT 28, MIT, Cambridge (Mass.), May 18-20, 2018
External Evaluation (Mathematics) in the context of the Excellence Strategy (DFG/WR), Mathematics, Cologne, April 25-27, 2018
'Simple and Complex Modal and Attitudinal Predicates', Rutgers Clausal Complement Workshop, Departments of Philosophy and of Linguistics, Rutgers University, April 6, 2018.
Meeting of the members of the committee of experts of the DGF Excellenzinitiative, Bonn, March 6-7, 2018
Invited seminar presentation in K. Fine: Arbitrary Objects, Department of Philosophy, NYU, March 1, 2018.
'Existence Predicates and the Metaphysics of Natural Language', invited speaker, Metaphysics Conference, University of Uppsala, organized by M. Eklund and J. Shaheen, November 14-15, 2017.
'Natural Language Ontology and its Relation to Syntax', invited speaker, Biolinguistic Conference on Interface Asymmetries, organized by A. M. di Sciullio, NYU, New York, November 10-12, 2017.
Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the DGF Excellenzinitiative , Bonn, September 27-28, 2017.
'Natural Language Ontology', invited speaker, Quo Vadis Metaphysics. In honor of Peter van Inwagen, International Center for Formal Ontology (ICFO), Warsaw Unversity, Warsaw, September 26-28, 2017.
'Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Roles', invited speaker, conference The Language of Ontology, Trinity College Dublin, September 8-10, 2017. abstract
Natural Language Ontology', tutorial at the 9th Colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe, Padua September 4-6, 2017.
'Natural Language Ontology', invited talk and tutorial, 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC), University College, London, July 18-21, 2017.
'Natural Language Metaphysics', Colloquium, University of Duesseldorf, July 13, 2017
Meeting of the members of the committee of experts of the DGF Excellenzinitiative, Bonn, June 28-29, 2017
'A Truthmaker Semantics for Modals with Modal Objects', workshop Alternatives to Classical Logic, Jerusalem, June 21-22, 2017.
TBA,invited speaker, Conference on Number, OSU/Maribor/Rjeka Conference, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2017 (withdrawn)
'Sentences as Predicates of Modal and Attitudinal Objects', invited speaker, workshop Propositions and Linguistic/Cognitive Action, organized by G. Vosgerau, Schloss Mickeln, Duesseldorf, May 24-26, 2017
Compact Course Metaphysics and Natural Language, IHPST /ENS, Paris, May 22-23 2017. http://www.cognition.ens.fr/Cours.html
'Truth Predicates, Truth Bearers, and their Variants', invited speaker, workshop Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition. organized by G. Mras and M. Schmitz, University of Vienna, May 19-20, 2017
'Infinitival Clauses: Possible Worlds and Truthmaker Approaches', Workshop on the Semantics of Embedded Sentences, NYU, Department of Philosophy, May 17, 2017.
'Natural Language Ontology', invited speaker, conference Metaphysics and Semantics, organized by J. Stanley and Z. Szabo, Yale University, New Haven, April 7-8, 2017.
Meeting of the members of the committee of experts of the DGF Excellenzinitiative, Bonn, April 5-6, 2017
'Truth Predicates, Truth Bearers, and their Variants', invited speaker, Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop Truth, Contextualism, and Semantic Paradox, organized by S. Shapiro, Ohio State University, Columbus, March 29-30, 2017.
'Modal Objects and their Truth Makers', invited speaker, workshop Situations, Information, and Semantic Content, organized by M. Kneer and K. Liefke, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Munich, December 16-18, 2016.
'Levels of Linguistic Acts and the Semantics of Saying and Quoting', University of Venice Ca' Foscari, December 13, 2016
'Sentences as Predicates of Attitudinal and Modal Objects'. Workshop The Metaphysics of Propositions, organized by C. Tillman, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Nov. 18-19, 2016.
'Natural Language Ontology', invited seminar presentation, J. Burgess: Recent Work on the Mind-Body Problem, Princeton University, October 10, 2016.
'The Ontology of Natural Language', keynote speaker, International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), Annecy, France, July 6-9, 2016.
'Attitudinal and Modal Objects', Workshop on Judgment, invited speaker, organized by B. Ball and C. Schuringa, New College of the Humanities (NCH), London, July 4-5, 2016
'Modal Objects and the Semantics of Modals', 5th Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology, invited speaker, organized by C. de Florio, V. Morato, G. Lando and M. Carrara, Padua, June 27-29, 2016.
'Natural Laguage Ontology', University of Milan, Onto-Format Project, June 24, 2016
'Actions and their Products', University of Milan, Time-Methods Project, June 23, 2016
'Sentences as Predicates of Attitudinal and Modal Objects', University of Pavia, June 1, 2016

'Sentences as Predicates of Attitudinal and Modal Objects', First International Workshop on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Palermo, May 16-19, 2016
'Modal Objects and the Semantics of Modals', Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP), keynote speaker, University of Miami, organized by O. Bueno and A. Thomasson, May 5-7, 2016
'A Truthmaker Semantics for Modals and Attitude Reports', The Unstructured Conference, organized by A. Egan and D. Kinderman, Rutgers University, April 22-24, 2016. Abstract
'Sentences as Predicates of Modal and Attitudinal Objects', PhilEAs Conference, University of Geneva, April 18, 2016.
'Modal Objects and the Semantics of Modals', Workshop on Imperatives and Deontic Modals, New York Institute of Philosophy, NYU, March 20, 2016.
'A Predicativist Semantics of Modals Based on Modal Objects'. 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 16-18, 2015.
'The Scope and Importance of First-Person-Oriented Genericity', workshop First-Person Reference across Languages, organized by M. Huang and K Jascolt, Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) 8, Cambridge, September 17, 2015
'Illocutionary Products and their Form'. Workshop Sentences and Clausal Complements, IHPST, Paris, September 14, 2015

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'A Truthmaker Semantics for Modals', Seminar for Nonclassical Logic, IHPST, Paris, September 10, 2015 (postponed)
'Sentences as Predicates of Modal and Attitudinal Objects', plenary speaker, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), Salzburg, September 2-4, 2015
'Modals, Nominalizations, and Modal Objects '. JENOM 6, Verona, June 30 - July 1, 2015 (alternate)
'Clauses as Predicates of Attitudinal and Modal Objects', DIP Colloquium, ILLC Amsterdam, May 8, 2015
‘Twardowski’s Distinction between Actions and Products and the Notion of a Cognitive Product’, annual seminar Phénoménologie et grammaire : lois des phénomènes et lois des significations, organized by B. Leclerque, Liège, May 4-8, 2015
'Le Produit Cognitif comme Artefact', Les lundi de la philosophie, ENS, Paris, May 4, 2015

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'Modals as Predicates of Modal Objects', Syntax Brown Bag, NYU, Department of Linguistics, May 1, 2015
'Attitudinal Objects and the Semantics of Attitude Reports', Conference Language at the Interface, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 27-29, 2015
Invited seminar presentation, R. Matthews: Seminar on Propositional Attitudes, Rutgers University, March 2015
'The Semantics of 'Cases'', Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, organized by G. Priest, CUNY Graduate Center, March 7, 2015
'Cognitive, Illocutionary, and Modal Products', Workshop Speech Acts and Propositions, sponsored by the France-Berkeley Fund, University of Berkeley, January 31, 2015
'Cognitive Products and the Semantics of Atttitude Reports'. CSLI, Stanford University, January 30, 2015.
'Number Words as Proper Names', Philmath Seminar, IHPST, November 27, 2014
'Cognitive, Illocutionary, and Modal Products', University of Konstanz, November 25, 2014.
'Cognitive, Illocutionary, and Modal Products', Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Tuebingen, November 26, 2014
'Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality', Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop, Cornell University, organized by W. Starr and S. Murray, November 8-9, 2014.
'Cases as Truthmakers', Symposium on Truthmaking, organized by M. Traynor, Arché, St Andrews, November 4, 2014
'Cognitive, Illocutionary, and Modal Products', Workshop Clausal Complements: New Perspectives, organized by J. Grimshaw, Rutgers University, October 3, 2014
'Cognitive Products and the Semantics of 'That'-Clauses, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Noto, Sicily, September 15-19, 2014
'Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality', Symposion on Plurality, organized by E. Zweig, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Noto, Sicily, September 15-19, 2014
'Cognitive Products and Attitude Reports', Workshop on the Notion of an Artifact, University of Padua, June 30, 2014

'Cognitive Products and the Semantics and Attitude Reports'. Workshop on Propositions, University of Leeds, May 7-8, 2014

'Existence Predicates and Modes of Being', invited talk. Metaphysics Conference of the Marc Sanders Foundation, organized by Mark Johnston (Princeton) and Chris Peacocke (Columbia), Columbia University, April 24 - 26, 2014

'Quotation within an Act-Based Semantics', Workshop on Quotation, NYU, Department of Philosophy, April 18, 2014

'Number Terms as Proper Names'. Workshop The Semantics of Cardinals, University of Ohio, Columbus, March 7-9, 2014

'Commentary on the talks by Peter Hanks and Scott Soames', Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Chicago, February 26, 2014

'Attitude Reports and the Distinction between Actions and Products', invited talk, Cognitive Science Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, February 14, 2014

'Proper Names, Sortals, and the Mass-Count Distinction', invited talk, University of Tuebingen, January 27, 2014

'The Distinction between Actions and Products as an Ontological Distinction'. Workshop on Twardowski's 'On Actions and Products', organized by W. Miskiewic, IHPST, Paris, January 24-25, 2014
'Tropes and Existence', invited seminar presentation, Mind and Language Seminar, organized by S.-J. Leslie, M. Johnston, and G. Rosen, Princeton University, November 14, 2013
'Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products', Colloquium, University of Duesseldorf, October 28, 2013.
'The Distinction between Actions and Products', Department of Philosophy, University of Tuebingen, July 18, 2013
'On the Semantics ad Ontology of 'Cases'', workshop Truth, Existence and Fundamentality, organized by T. Sattig and A. Torza, Tuebingen, July 5-6, 2013

'On the Semantics and Ontology of 'Cases", University of Padua, Department of Philosophie, July 3, 2013
Invited talks, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, March 18 et 20, 2013
Invited tutorial, 'Logics of Plurality', Universal Logic Conference, Rio de Janeiro, March 29-April 2, 2013

'Predicates of Subjective Evaluation and their Nominalizations', Third Paris-Hamburg Ontology Workshop, IHPST, Paris, February 22-23, 2013

'Part Structure and Conditions of Integrity'. Invited seminar presentation, L. Champollion: 'Algebraic Semantics', NYU, February 7, 2013

'Proper Names, Sortals and the Mass-Count Distinction'. Syntax Supper, CUNY Graduate Center, February 5, 2013

'Variable Objects', Conférence Metaphysically Relevant Linguistics, organized by S Kleinschmidt, USC, Los Angeles, January 18-20, 2013.

'Truth Predicates'. NY Semantics Colloquium, NYU, November 30, 2012

'Generic 'One' and the Nature and Scope of First-Person-Oriented Genericity', Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns organized by P. Cabredo-Hofherr, Paris 8, November 8-9, 2012

'Abstract Objects and Reifying Terms', Philosophy Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center, October 10, 2012

'Quotation and Linguistic Acts', Workshop Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy and Linguistics, organized by E. Maier et M. Werning, Bochum, September 27-29, 2012.

'Plural Reference: Linguistic Motivations and Challenges', Tutorial Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 5, co-taught with Oystein Linnebo and Salvatore Florio, Turin, June 25, 2012.

'Variable Objects', Conference on the Philosophy of Kit Fine, Sinaia (Transylvania), Rumania, May 25-27, 2012.

'Quotation and the Composition of Linguistic Acts', NYU Philosophy of Language Workshop, May 21, 2012.

'Intentional Objects, Intentional Acts and Semantic Structure', Kripke Center, CUNY Graduate Center, April 23, 2012.

'Reifying Terms', invited seminar presentation, J. Burgess: Seminar on Kripke, Université de Princeton, April 9, 2012.

'Cases as Truthmakers', invited seminar presentation, K. Fine: Seminar on Truth Makers, NYU, March 15, 2012.

'The Semantics of 'Cases'', Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, March 30, 2012; University of Goettingen, January 13, 2012; Department of Linguistics, City University Hong Kong, January 4, 2012.
'Plural Reference and Three-Dimensional Syntactic Structures'. Abstract accepted for the workshop The Syntax and Semantics of Sharing. Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives. University of Nantes, November 2-3, 2012 (unable to attend because of weather conditions).

'Tropes, Intensional Relative Clauses, and the Notion of a Variable Object', Northwestern University, Evanston, March 29, 2012; University of Frankfurt, January 12, 2012; Amsterdam Colloquium, December 19-21, 2011.

'The Action-Product Distinction for Transitive Intensional Verbs', Workshop Acts and Propositional Content, IHPST, Paris, November 26, 2011.

'Explicit Expressions of Truth-Making in Natural Language', Conference Truth Makers and Proof Objects, organized by Per Martin-Loef, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, November 23-25, 2011.

'Intensional Relative Clauses and the Notion of a Variable Object', Semantics Group, Department of Linguistics, NYU, November 18, 2011; Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, November 14, 2011.

'Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products', Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, November 4, 2011; Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 4, University of Bochum, September 26 - October 1, 2011; workshop Propositional Content and Proposition-Related Acts, Paris, March 29, 2010.

'The Nominalization Theory of Non-Nominal Quantifiers', workshop Quantification and Ontological Commitment, University of Hamburg, October 7, 2011.

''The Number of People that fit into the Bus': Tropes with Intensional Bearers?', ZAS, Berlin, July 21, 2011.

'Identificational and Specificational Sentences', Syntax Workshop 'The Left Periphery', organized by D. Delfitto, University of Verona, July 8-9, 2011.

'Truth Predicates in Natural Language' (abstract). Conference 'Truth at Work', organized by D. Bonnay, H. Galinon and P. Wagner, ENS, Paris, June 21-23, 2011.

'Gradability within a Trope-Based Approach', 'Gradability' Workshop, organized by J. Doetjes, University of Leiden, June 6-7, 2011.

'Nominalization and Quotation: Possible Connections', Workshop 'Nominalizations and Quotation', IHPST, Paris, May 7, 2011.

'Identificational Sentences', Georgetown University, Washington, April 29, 2011; Department of Linguistics, Nanzan University, Japan, November 25, 2010; Department of Linguistics, Yale University, October 2010; Department of Linguistics, Rochester University, October 2010.

'Tropes and the Semantics of Adjectives', workshop The Syntax and Semantics of Nounhood and Adjectivehood, organized by T. Espinal et X. Villalba, Barcelona, March 24-25, 2011.

Invited mini-course: 'The Semantics and Ontology of Tropes', Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 2011.