{"id":14710,"date":"2022-04-25T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2022-04-25T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:02:00","slug":"linglunch-4-28-harvey-lederman-princeton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/04\/25\/linglunch-4-28-harvey-lederman-princeton-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 4\/28 - Harvey Lederman (Princeton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Harvey Lederman (Princeton)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Fregeanism, sententialism, and scope<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, April 28th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Among philosophers, Fregeanism and sententialism are widely considered two of the leading theories of the semantics of attitude reports. But these theories have received much less recent attention from linguists. This talk will aim to bridge this divide. I&#8217;ll present a new formal implementation of Fregeanism and sententialism, with the goal of showing that the theories can be developed in sufficient detail and concreteness to be serious competitors to theories which are more popular among semanticists. I&#8217;ll start by offering a modern treatment of quantifying in for Fregeanism and sententialism, in the style of Heim and Kratzer (1998), and then show how these theories can\u0097 somewhat surprisingly\u0097account for \u0093third readings\u0094 (Fodor, 1970) on the model of the \u0093Standard Solution\u0094 from possible-worlds semantics (von Fintel and Heim, 2002). The resulting Fregean\/sententialist proposal has a distinctive attraction: it treats data related to counterfactual attitudes (Ninan, 2008; Yanovich, 2011; Maier, 2015; Blumberg, 2018)\u0097which have proven challenging to accommodate in the setting of possible worlds semantics\u0097straightforwardly as third readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Harvey Lederman (Princeton)Title: Fregeanism, sententialism, and scopeTime: Thursday, April 28th, 12:30pm - 1:50pmAbstract: Among philosophers, Fregeanism and sententialism are widely considered two of the leading theories of the semantics of attitude reports. But these theories have received much less recent attention from linguists. This talk will aim to bridge this divide. I&#8217;ll present a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}