Some of my recent and upcoming talks:
Semantics as the Study of a Modular System (slides)
20–24 June, 2022. 5-day summer-school course at the North American Summer School for Language, Logic, and Information, University of Southern California.
Designing Referring Expressions (slides)
3 June 2022. The Iceland Reference Workshop, University of Iceland.
Designing Communicative Acts (slides)
23 March 2022. Arglab Research Colloquium, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Assertions vs Directives (video, slides)
23 March 2021. Invited talk in Nate Charlow’s Graduate Seminar, The University of Toronto. (Online)
10 March 2021 .Invited talk at San Raffaele University Philosophy Department, Milan. (Online)
28 January 2021. EXPRESS Workshop on non-assertoric speech, University of Amsterdam (Online)
Toward an Extremely Mentalistic Semantics (slides)
26 February 2021. American Philosophical Association, Central Division (online)
What Makes Human Communication Special?
5 November 2020. Invited talk at Temple University Philosophy Department.
20 & 27 April 2020. Two guest sessions of Eric Mandelbaum's Graduate Seminar on Non-Canonical Cognition, CUNY Graduate Center.
Language, Mindreading, and Planning
1 October 2020. Philosophy of Language Models Workshop, co-organized by NYU and OpenAI (online)
Imperative Inference and Practical Rationality
6–8 March 2020. Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop
Discourse Dynamics without Contexts
28 February 2020. Central APA, Chicago.
Semantics without Semantic Content (handout)
13 February 2020. Guest Session of Karen Lewis's Graduate Seminar on Metasemantics, Columbia University
1 May 2019. Guest Session of Stephen Neale's Graduate Seminar on Compositionality, CUNY Graduate Center
22 April 2019. Guest Session of Ray Buchanan's and Josh Dever's Graduate Seminar on Metasemantics, UT Austin
Intention Recognition as the Mechanism of Human Communication (slides)
10 April 2019. Philosophy Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center
6 April 2019. International Linguistics Association, New York City
Semantics, Pragmatics, and Theoretical Motivation
11 September 2018. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik.
Comments on `Agential Free Choice' by Melissa Fusco
14 August 2018. The Iceland Meaning Workshop
The Cooperative Principle and Non-Assertoric Speech Acts
19 June 2018. Workshop on Lying and Dishonesty, University College, Dublin.
Imperatives and Intention-Based Semantics
19 October 2017. Meaning and Intention Workshop, Institute of Philosophy, London.
15 October 2017. PhLiP (Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistic Philosophy) 4
An Intention-Based Semantics for Imperatives (slides)
26 July 2017. The Nova Scotia Meaning Workshop
We Talk to People, Not Contexts
16 June 2017 Workshop on The Practical and Theoretical Implications of Defective Communication, University of Oslo.
22 March 2017. Guest session of Elisabeth Camp's Rutgers Graduate Seminar on Assertion and other Speech Acts.
An Intention-Based Semantics for Imperatives (slides)
30 January 2017. New York Philosophy of Language Workshop
Semantics without Semantic Content
6 December 2016. Guest Session at Justin Khoo's Graduate Seminar on Philosophy of Language, MIT
Prior Theories, Passing Theories, and Compositional Semantics (slides)
19 November 2016. Conference on Davidson's 'A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs', University of South Florida
Comments on 'Speech Acts in Discourse Context' by Craige Roberts (handout)
12-13 November 2016. Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy
We Talk to People, Not Contexts (slides)
4 November 2016. American Pragmatics Association, Bloomington IN
Reference, Utterance Design, and Cognitive Architecture (slides)
12–16 September 2016. Annual Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference, IUC Dubrovnik.
Wittgenstein's Influence on Austin's Philosophy of Language (slides)
(with Elmar Unnsteinnsson)
16–18 June 2016. SSHAP Annual Conference, Denver
Meaning Intentions and the Semantic Composition (slides)
(with Stephen Neale)
7 May 2016. Mayfest 2016, University of Maryland
Directives Backed by Threats (handout)
(with Rachel McKinney)
28 April 2016. MIT Work in Progress Seminar
Semantics without Semantic Content (slides)
31 March 2016. 2016 Pacific APA in San Francisco
Respect the Black Box (slides)
10 September 2015. Annual Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference, IUC Dubrovnik
The History and Prehistory of Natural-Language Semantics (slides)
9 January 2015. Innovations Workshop, McMaster University