Call for papers

It is our pleasure to announce the 6th Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium (SPE 6), which this year will take place in St. Petersburg during the White Nights.

Place: Bobrinsky Palace, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College), St. Petersburg State University
Time: June 10-14, 2013

INVITED SPEAKERS

GENERAL SESSION:

Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst / Moscow State University)
Kjell Johan Sæbø (University of Oslo)

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

[1] The Interface between Linguistic Semantics and Philosophy of Mind
Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri, Saint Louis)
Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
Scott Soames (University of Southern California)

Tutorial:
Robert Matthews (Rutgers University)
Friederike Moltmann (IHPST (Paris1/ENS/CNRS), Paris)

[2] The Status of Semantics in the History of Generative Grammar
John Collins (University of East Anglia)
Wolfram Hinzen (Durham / Barcelona)
Robert May / Adam Sennett (UC Davis)
Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)

[3] Empirical Methods in the Investigation of Semantics
Erica Cosentino (Calabria / Bochum)
Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg State University / NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow)
Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht institute of Linguistics / St. Petersburg State University)
Markus Werning (Bochum)

Abstract Submission Details:
Please send an anonymous two-page long abstract to: slioussar@gmail.com.
In the subject field of the e-mail, please mention ‘SPE6 abstract’.
In the body of the e-mail please specify whether the submission is for the general session or one of the special sessions and mention title and your name, affiliation, and e-mail address.

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: April 5, 2013

Organizing Committee of SPE6:
Berit Brogaard, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Wolfram Hinzen, Robert Matthews, Robert May, Friederike Moltmann, Natalia Slioussar, Markus Werning, Ede Zimmermann

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