April 30 - May 2,2010

CONFERENCE	COMMITMENTS	PROGRAM	REGISTRATION	CONTACT

PROGRAM

Friday (April 30)	Compton Union Building, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
8:30–3:30 PM	Registration and Refreshments: Room?
	Session A	Session B	Session C
	CUB 208 \| Chair: Ryan Hebert, Washington State University	CUB 310 \| Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University	CUB 204 \| Chair: Justin Caouette, Washington State University
9:00–10:10 AM	Open	Chad Carmichael (University of Illinois) "Quantification and Conversation" comment: Brooke Roberts, University of Idaho	Geoff Georgi (University of Southern California) "Demonstratives and Pragmatic Ambiguity" comment: Alexandru Radulescu, University of California, Los Angeles
10:20–11:30 AM	Robin Jeshion (University of California, Riverside) "Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location"	Mark Hinchliff (Reed College) "Has the Theory of Reference Rested on a Mistake?" comment: Brendan Murday, Ithaca College	John Justice (Randolph College) "Removing Referents from Extension" comment: Justin Horn, University of Idaho
11:30–1:00 PM	Lunch (on your own)
	Session A	Session B	Session C
	CUB 208 \| Chair: Mitch Stokes, New St. Andrews College	CUB 310 \| Chair: David Boersema, Pacific University	CUB 204 \| Chair: Bill Kabasenche, Washington State University
1:00–2:10 PM	Jody Azzouni (Tufts University) "Rejecting World-Language Connections as a Constraint on Truth-Conditional Semantics" comment: Mark Balaguer, California State University, Los Angeles	Sarah Moss (University of Michigan) "Reference and Persistence" comment: Chris Barker, New York University	Ori Simchen (University of British Columbia) "The Necessity of Reference" comment: Brian Epstein, Tufts University
2:20–3:30 PM	David Braun (State University of New York, Buffalo) "Hob, Nob, and Mythical Witches" comment: Russell Wahl, Idaho State University	Antonio Rauti (University of Wisconsin) "Multiple Grounding and Deference" comment: Brian Bowman, University of Southern California	Jason Ford (University of Minnesota, Duluth) "Five Puzzles for Externalism about Mental Content" comment: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:30–4:00 PM	Afternoon Coffee Break
4:00–5:20 PM	CUB L60 Plenary Session: "Implicit Reference" Stephen Neale (City University of New York Graduate Center)
5:30–7:30 PM	*Dinner at various area restaurants* The organizers will make some reservations and provide sign-up sheets. A restaurant list is included in your packet.
7:30–9:30 PM	Silver and Gold Rooms University Inn, Moscow, ID Public Forum: "Civil Language in Public Discourse" Nancy Chaney, Mayor, Moscow, ID Ann Levey, Philosophy, University of Calgary Jodie Nicotra, Rhetoric, University of Idaho Fr. Kevin Scherer, Religion, Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Moscow, ID Matthew Weidenfeld, Political Science, Washington State University
9:30–10:30 PM	Reception Washington and Idaho Rooms, University Inn, Moscow, ID
Saturday (May 1st)	University of Idaho Commons, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
8:00–9:00 AM	Continental Breakfast Whitewater and Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons, 1st Floor
8:00–11:30 AM	Registration and Refreshments Panorama Room, UI Commons, 4th Floor
	Session A	Session B	Session C
	Crest Room \| Chair: Garrett Pendegraft, University of California, Riverside	Horizon Room \| Chair: John Jensen, North Idaho College	Aurora Room \| Chair: Aaron Bunch, Washington State University
9:00–10:10 AM	Howard Wettstein (University of California, Riverside) "Having in Mind" comment: Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho	Michael Blome-Tillman (McGill University) "A Dual-Layer Semantics for Definite Descriptions" comment: Michael Pelletti, Idaho State University	Marco Santambrogio (University of Parma) "Direct Reference, Empty Names, and Church’s Translation Argument" comment: Kevan Edwards, Syracuse University
10:20–11:30 PM	Joseph Almog and Antonio Capuano (University of California, Los Angeles) "From Having in Mind to Direct Reference" comment: Ori Simchen, University of British Columbia	Mihnea Capraru (Syracuse University) "Russellian Belief Reports, Shared Presentations, and Two-Place Propositional Attitudes" comment: Avram Hiller, Portland State University	Brian Bowman (University of Southern California) *"The Gap between Knowing the Meaning of a Word and Understanding It"* comment: W. Russ Payne, Bellevue College
11:40–12:50 PM	John Perry (University of California, Riverside and Stanford University ) "Roles and the Pragmatics of Reference"	Jonathan Berg (University of Haifa) "Metaphorical Reference" comment: Jason Leddington, Bucknell University	Bryan Pickel (University of Texas) "Rigidification and Attitudes" comment: Marina Folescu, University of Southern California
12:50–2:00 PM	Lunch Whitewater Room and Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons, 1st Floor
	Session A	Session B	Session C
	Crest Room \| Chair: Nathan Nicol, Washington State University	Horizon Room \| Chair: Kurt Queller, University of Idaho	Aurora Room \| Chair: Kaylani Merrill, University of Idaho
2:00–3:10 PM	Genoveva Marti (ICREA and University of Barcelona) "Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference" comment: Michael Glanzberg, University of California, Davis	Laurence Horn (Yale University, and Barbara Abbott, Michigan State University) "<the, a>: (In)definiteness and Implicature" comment: Peter Ludlow, Northwestern University	Kalbir Sohi (King’s College, London) "Do We Use Demonstratives Intentionally?" comment: Geoff Georgi, University of Southern California
3:20–4:30 PM	Jeffrey King (Rutgers University) "“Descriptive” Readings of Indexicals and Demonstratives"	Matthew Slater (Bucknell University) "Referring to Species (or: Metaphysics of Species for Those Wary of Commitment)" comment: Stephen Crowley, Boise State University	David Boersema (Pacific University) "Aesthetic Reference" comment: Robert Epperson, Mt. Royal University
4:40–5:50 PM	Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) "Reference and Jazz Combo Theories of Meaning" comment: Douglas Cannon, University of Puget Sound	Michael Nelson (University of California, Riverside) "Truth Relativism" comment: Mark Hinchliff, Reed College	Yu Izumi (University of Maryland) "Situation Descriptivism"
6:00–7:30 PM	Dinner Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons, 1st Floor
7:30–9:30 PM	*UI Law School Courtroom, Moscow Idaho* *Keynote Address: "An Idea of Donnellan"* David Kaplan (University of California, Los Angeles)
9:30–10:00 PM	Reception University of Idaho Law School Foyer
Sunday (May 2nd)	University of Idaho Commons, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
8:00–9:00 AM	Continental Breakfast Whitewater and Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons, 1st Floor
8:00–11:30 AM	Registration and Refreshments Panorama Room, UI Commons, 4th Floor
	Session A	Session B	Session C
	Horizon \| Chair: Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho	Crest \| Chair: Stephen Crowley, Boise State University	Aurora \| Chair: Liela McLachlan, University of Idaho
9:00–10:10 AM	Kent Bach (San Francisco State University) "The Varieties of Pseudo-Reference"	Gillian Russell (Washington University-St. Louis) "Indexicals, Context-Sensitivity, and the Failure of Implication" comment: Paul Hovda, Reed College	Jessica Pepp (University of California, Los Angeles) "Reference: By Truth or by Cognition?" comment: Todd Jones, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
10:15–11:25 AM	Eros Corazza (ILCLI and Carleton University) "On Modes of Presentation" comment: Antonio Capuano, University of California, Los Angeles	Joshua Spencer (Syracuse University) & Chris Tillman (University of Manitoba) "Semantic Stipulation and Knowledge De Re" comment: David Shier, Washington State University	Stevroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University) "Words Gone Sour" comment: Ann Levey, University of Calgary
11:40–1:10 PM	Lunch and Closing Workshop Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons, 1st Floor
	Whitewater/Clearwater Room Plenary Session: "Two Versions of Millianism" Scott Soames, University of Southern California

DIRECTORS
INPC Executive Director is Joseph Keim Campbell, Professor of Philosophy at Washington State University. Co-Directors of the current meeting are Michael O'Rourke and Bill Kabasenche, Professors of Philosophy at the University of Idaho and Washington State University.

This program is supported in part by the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Idaho and Washington State University, the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Idaho, the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University, and the Research Offices at the University of Idaho and Washington State University. Past editions of the INPC have been supported by grants from the Idaho Humanities Council, a State-Based Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation.

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