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247 / PHIL 234 - Context sensitivity and the appeal of
the hidden |
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2012 |
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This
course is a graduate-level seminar on linguistic elements
and constructions whose interpretation exhibits sensitivity
to the context of utterance that has been accounted
for by assuming hidden elements in the linguistic structure.
We'll focus on some paradigmatic cases with two main
goals: to understand the main aspects of the individual
puzzles and to try to look for commonalities in the
data, the hidden elements that have been postulated,
and/or the nature of the supporting arguments.
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Lectures
Wednesday 2-4:50 pm, HSS 7077 |
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Instructors
IVANO
CAPONIGRO
Office: AP&M 4131
E-mail: click
here
Phone: (858) 534 7220
Office hours: TBA, by appointment, or just stop
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Instructors
JONATHAN
COHEN
Office: H&SS 8072
E-mail: joncohen AT aardvark DOT ucsd DOT edu
Phone: (858) 534 6812
Office hours: TBA |
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| Readings |
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The readings are listed on the schedule below and
are available for you to download as pdf files.
They are password protected and each of you should
have received ID and password from the instructors
by e-mail.
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Readings
are required and should be done prior to class.
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| Evaluation |
- Class
participation
- Readings
(a brief question/comment on each paper that you are
required to read (but you are not presenting) should
be submitted on a piece of paper at the beginning
of the class in which the paper is discusssed)
- Guiding
the discussion of two papers among the readings (with
handouts and/or slides)
- In-class
presentation of (a preliminary version of) the final
paper
- Final
paper: reserach paper not a book report or article
review (15-25 pages)
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SCHEDULE
(last
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08/21/2012
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WARNING!
If you try to download the password protected material
from your personal computer with a browser that
have the UCSD proxy on, you may get a failure message
before even entering your ID and password. Two solutions:
1) use a different browser without a UCSD proxy,
or 2) turn off the UCSD proxy on your usual browser
so that you can enter your own password for the
class website, since apparently the proxy does it
automatically.
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| WEEKS
& DAYS
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TOPICS
(tentative! changes may still
occur through out the course) |
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READINGS
(tentative! changes may
still occur through out the course)
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1 |
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4/4 |
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4/11 |
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- Overview
- Indexicals
and demonstratives: character, content, double
indexing
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- [Jonathan]
Kaplan, Demonstratives
required: Preface, Sections
I-VI (both parts), VIII, XI, XIII, XIV, and
as much of the formal system and remarks (Sections
XVIII-XIX) as you can
suggested: the whole paper
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4/18 |
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4/25 |
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- Semantic
coercion
- Hidden
variables and domain restriction
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5/2 |
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Friday
5/4
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- Relevant
philosophy colloquium talk:
Igal Kvart
Rational Assertibility, the Steering Role
of Knowledge, and Pragmatic Encroachment
[abstract]
4-6 pm, H&SS 7077
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6 |
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5/9 |
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5/16 |
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5/23 |
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- Predicates
of taste (II)
- Contextualism
and relativism (I)
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5/30 |
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- Contextualism
and relativism (II)
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SOME
SUGGESTIONS:
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6/6 |
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- Students'
presentations of their own papers
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| Finals
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6/13 |
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- Final
papers are due by 5 pm to Jonathan or Ivano
in person or by e-mail (please send a pdf file
if you are choosing the e-mail option)
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| Useful
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08/21/2012
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