Talks

Recent and forthcoming talks

• 'Outline of a Truthmaker-Based Semantics of Embedded Clause Types', Colloquium and seminar talks, University of Bochum, July 15, 2021

• TBA, Department of Linguistics, University of Nice, March 25, 2021

• 'Natural Language Ontology', invited session, Z. Szabo: undergraduate course Introduction to Philosophy of Language, Yale, December 4, 2020 (via ZOOM). 

• 'Attitudinal and Modal Objects', Ca Foscari, Venice, November 3, 2020 (via ZOOM) handout

• 'Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics', MUMBLE seminar, 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), postponed

• 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 Objects', 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

• '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.