The NihiL Workshop

When & Where

31 January - 2 February 2024

Room 0.01, Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam

Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/87618965843

The workshop dinner will be held at Indrapura


Description

The goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists who share an interest in the interfaces between (non-classical) logic, language and cognition.


Registration

Registration is not required, but to ensure a smooth organization of the workshop, please register here! If you plan to attend online, please register to receive the zoom link.

Workshop schedule:

Wednesday 31.01.2024

10.00-10.30 Welcome and coffee
Session 1 Chair: Maria Aloni
10.30-11.30 Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin)
Varieties of disjunctions
11.40-12.40 Yasutada Sudo (UCL)
Empty restrictors are neglected for redundancy avoidance
12.45 Lunch break
Session 2 Chair: Tomasz Klochowicz
14.00-15.30 Marco Degano & Sonia Ramotowska
Ignorance and distributive inferences of disjunction
15.45-17.15 Oliver Bott (Bielefeld) & Fabian Schlotterbeck (Tübingen)
Variation in the processing of zero-models?
Discussion Chair: Sonia Ramotowska
17.30-18.00 Experimenting with Zero-models
18.30 Workshop dinner at Indrapura

Thursday 01.02.2024

Session 1 Chair: Sonia Ramotowska
09.30-10.30 Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
The logic of common ground
10.40-11.40 Salvador Mascarenhas (ENS Paris)
Questions in language and thought
11.50-12.50 Tomasz Klochowicz
Free Choice Questions
12.50 Lunch break
Session 2 Chair: Aleksi Anttila
14.00-15.00 Søren Brinck Knudstorp
The Decidable and the Undecidable. A Survey of Recent Results
15.10-16.10 Hannes Leitgeb (Münich)
The Logic of Theoretical Reasons. An Axiomatic Account
16.10 Break
17.00-19.00 Jeroen Groenendijk Memorial

Friday 02.02.2024

Session 1 Chair: Søren Brinck Knudstorp
09.30-10.30 Marianna Girlando (ILLC)
Beyond sequent calculus: proof systems for conditional logics
10.40-11.40 Aleksi Anttila
Bilateral State-based Modal Logic: expressive power and axiomatizations
11.50-12.50 Fan Yang (Utrecht)
Team-based logics around BSML
12.50 Lunch break
Session 2 Chair: Marco Degano
14.00-15.00 Jialiang Yan (Tsinghua)
Reasoning on Desire
15.10-16.10 Larry Moss (Indiana)
Semantic Foundations of Polarity Tagging
Discussion Chair: Maria Aloni
16.30-17.00 Final discussion

You will find the poster of the event here.

Jeroen Groenendijk Memorial

On Thursday 1 February from 17.00-19.00 there will be an event commemorating Jeroen Groenendijk, who suddenly passed away on the 17th of October 2023. Jeroen has made groundbreaking contributions to formal semantics, including inspiring some of the core ideas behind the Nihil project. More information on this event will be posted here

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Contact

For more information please contact Maria Aloni.

Sponsors