May 10, 2014

Co-sponsored by the New York Institute of Philosophy

NYU, Department of Philosophy,
5 Washington Place, 2nd floor

Program:

10.00 - 11.30: Kit Fine (NYU): Compliance and Command

11.30 - 11.45: Coffee Break

11.45 - 13.15: Daniel Harris (CUNY): Imperatives in
Speech-Act-Theoretic Semantics

13.15 - 14.45 lunch break

14.45 - 16.15: Nate Charlow (Toronto): The Meaning of Imperatives

16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break

16.30 - 18.00: Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn): Embedded Imperatives (cancelled)


Suggested preparatory reading:

Paul Portner: 'Imperatives'. To appear in Maria Aloni and Robert van
Rooij, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Semantics.  Cambridge:  Cambridge
University Press (and references therein)