Classes
Spring 2009:
- Advanced Semantics, 24.973, MW 10-11:30, Room 56-180
Research Plans
- (with Sabine Iatridou): something about imperative conjunctions (Take one more step and I’ll shoot)
- (with Thony Gillies):
- something about deontic conditionals (iffy oughts)
- a handbook article on deontic logic and natural language
- (solo):
- a book about conditionals for the new series of Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics, edited by Chris Barker and Chris Kennedy (OUP),
- an entry on counterfactuals for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- an entry on subjunctive conditionals for Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (edited by Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell)
Travel Plans
- Subjective meaning workshop: alternatives to relativism, Workshop at the 2010 Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS), February 24-26, 2010. Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.
- Conference on Epistemic Modality, April 16-18, 2010, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Thony Gillies (other participants include Bob Stalnaker, Keith DeRose, Angelika Kratzer, and John MacFarlane).
- The 6th International Symposium for Cognition, Logic and Communication: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics in Riga, April 23-25, 2010.
Ongoing Duties
- Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT
- HASS Overview Committee (Chair)
Subcommittee on the Communication Requirement (ex officio)
Editor-in-Chief (with David Beaver) of Semantics & Pragmatics
- Editorial Board Member of Natural Language Semantics
- Reviewing for many journals and conferences