semantics etc.

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Plans

July 2011 through June 2012: Sabbatical Leave

I plan to run the following races in the coming months:

Here’s a list of my upcoming speaking engagements:

  • February 7, 2012: Invited talk at Yale (Current Work in Cognitive Science)
  • February 15, 2012: Chairing session at Philosophy of Language workshop at Northwestern University
  • February 16–20, 2012: Invited talk in a session on “Deontic Modals” at the APA Central Division meeting in Chicago
  • March 9, 2012: Linguistics colloquium at UMass Amherst
  • April 19–21, 2012: Invited speaker at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society
  • May 4, 2012: Invited talk to the Philosophy Faculty at Oxford University’s Jowett Society
  • October 26-28, 2012: Invited talk at conference “What if? Thought experiments and counterfactual thinking” in Konstanz

Teaching

  • Fall 2012: MIT 24.970 Introduction to Semantics (with Martin Hackl)
  • Spring 2013: MIT 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory (with Irene Heim)
  • Spring 2013: MIT 24.979 Topics in Semantics (with Sabine Iatridou)

Organizing

July 22–27, 2013: Topic organizer (with David Beaver) of sessions on “The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface” for the 19th International Congress of Linguists, July 22–27, 2013, Geneva.

Research Agenda

  • Entry on “Counterfactuals” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Collaboration on deontic modality with Thony Gillies and Angelika Kratzer
  • Article on “Deontic logic and natural language” (with Thony Gillies) for Handbook of deontic logic and normative systems, edited by Dov Gabbay, John Horty, Ron van der Meyden and Leon van der Torre
  • Work on imperatives (with Sabine Iatridou)
  • Book on conditionals (with Thony Gillies and Sabine Iatridou)

Ongoing Activities