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@ERC_Research funded project on disagreement and expressivist semantics

University of Amsterdam
Joined April 2018
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/1 Reasoning with Attitude, which I co-authored with Julian Schlöder, is now out in e-format (print format out soon). Open access (link below) thanks to @ERC_Research, which funded @EXPRESS_project . A thread on the book's main themes 🧵 fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/…
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Very happy to announce that my “Aboutness Paradox” has been accepted in the Journal of Philosophy! It’s about paradoxes that come from quantifying over propositions while neglecting the relation of aboutness (see the picture for abstract) 1/3
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New paper on epistemic modality in game theory philpapers.org/rec/SBAWM The idea is, use of 'might' improves the chances to coordinate if interlocutors are uncertain. The end goal is to respond to Seth Yalcin's expressivism within standard semantics. All work of @EXPRESS_project
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Dave Beisecker on Peirce's bilateral semantics. Dave gave a wonderful talk on some of this stuff at the @EXPRESS_project workshop last June, good to see that it is now out jstor.org/stable/10.2979/tra…
Daniel Rothschild at today's @EXPRESS_project Seminar telling us about the Lockean thesis, Dutch books and scoring systems
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Martin Stokhof believes "the ERC builds a community, a consciousness, a web of relations between institutions and individuals. It is European from the ground up." This departing Scientific Council member attends his last Plenary meeting at the ERC today. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ma…
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Today Workshop on Logical Consequence: Calculi and Semantics @LaStataleFilo with @antitheorem C. Caleiro and S. Marcelino oorganised by the #Logic Group with @hykel and @mardago1 filosofia.unimi.it/logic/eve…
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New paper! "Quantifiers in natural language optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off". For the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium's (#AC2019) proceedings. TLDR: read the title :). Paper: semanticsarchive.net/Archive… Code [to be cleaned up]: github.com/shanest/SimInf_Qu…
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Visiting Fellowships in Logic & Philosophy of Science, Tilburg (The Netherlands), Deadline: 7 Jan 2020 ift.tt/2QXG8ja
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The Fundamental Problem of Logical Omniscience' is forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. As one referee said, "the logical work in the paper is fantastic" -- and it's all due to Aybüke's skills. Preprint downloadable here: academia.edu/attachments/611…
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Replying to @ssshanest
@ssshanest and I are organizing a workshop on computational and experimental explanations in semantics and pragmatics at #ESSLLI2020 in Utrecht, August 10-14. Deadline: 15 February. CfP: jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/even…
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The program of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, including our workshop on Semantic Universals, is now online: events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2019…
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Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language, CfP: tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_…
And another CfP, this time for the workshop on genealogy & conceptual engineering taking place in St. Andrews on May 1-2. Deadline for submission is December 15th. Please spread the word :) philevents.org/event/show/77…
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Replying to @CambridgeLTL
@CambridgeLTL welcomes applications from outstanding candidates for our PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language! graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/cou… If you want to apply, please get in touch with @annalkorhonen @nigelhcollier @licwu et al. The funding deadline is Jan. 7, 2020.
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Are you interested in the history of humanities and science at the University of Amsterdam? Then join us with a short-term Vossius Fellowship! Applications are now open. Deadline: 15 November 2019. vossius.uva.nl/funding/vossi…
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My #Nature150 piece on what we learn from #bigdata history: "data generation, processing and analysis are unavoidably value-laden. The scientific legitimacy of these activities depends on the extent to which such values are held up for public scrutiny" nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #in
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Do you have a PhD degree in Experimental Psychology or Psycholinguistics? Are you interested in Natural Language interpretation? Would you like to join ILLC to investigate the meaning of generic and conditional sentences? If so, please apply: urlverkorten.com/vbOXN
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