Jean Nicod Emerging Ideas - Fall Program

The entire fall program of Jean Nicod Emerging Ideas is now ready.

PDF version of the fall program (which includes dates, titles and abstracts) can be downloaded here.

Here is an overview of the fall program:

Friday 25th October, 11 am
Erin Zaroukian (IJN), “Variation in Vagueness”

 [To be held in the conference room of the DEC]

Friday 29^th November, 11 am

Baptiste Gille (Quai Branly), “Supernatural Beings:
Proposal for a New Cognitive Theory of Counter-intuition”

Friday 6^th December, 11 am

Alexis Wellwood (Univ. of Maryland),
“What ‘meaning’ can (and probably should) mean”

Friday 13^th December, 11 am

Sam Wilkinson (Durham Univ.), “Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
and the Anticipatory Nature of Experience”

Friday 20^th December, 11 am

Guillaume Dezecache (IJN), “Studies on emotional propagation in humans:
 The cases of fear and joy”

 

Erin Zaroukian, 25/10/2013, 11 am

Date: Friday 25^th October
Time: 11 am

Place: Conference room of the Pavillon Jardin - 29, rue d'Ulm

Speaker: Erin Zaroukian (Post-doc, IJN)

Title: “Variation in Vagueness”

Abstract: In natural language, vagueness abounds. In the sentence *John served approximately 50 sandwiches*, for example, there is potential indeterminacy in what counts as a sandwich, what counts as an event of serving, and what quantities qualify as *approximately fifty*. I explore sentences like these in the context of the question What is the nature of vagueness?  I address this through case studies of a variety of modifiers, focusing on * approximately*, *maybe*, and *about*, as in *John served approximately/maybe/about 50 sandwiches*. Comparing modal modifiers like * maybe *to non-modal modifiers like *approximately*, I argue that vagueness is a systematically heterogeneous phenomenon by identifying fundamental differences in the vague readings these two classes of modifiers produce.

Jean Nicod Emerging Ideas

“Doc’in Nicod” is now “Jean Nicod Emerging Ideas”!

The goal of this talk series will be for members, associates, friends, and neighbors of Institut Jean Nicod to present their on-going work related to cognitive science. Given that the group is inherently interdisciplinary, we will try to prioritize work which is accessible and interesting to the many different areas of cognitive science represented at Jean Nicod (anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology).

New term for the Doc in Nicod

Sessions of the Doc in Nicod will resume soon! 

We are now looking for participants (master, PhD students, postdocs or even young researchers) to present their work. The new person responsible for the organization is Martin Fortier, PhD student with Jérôme Dokic and Frédéric Nef.

Feel free to contact him if you want to give a talk!

Summer break

The Doc in Nicod is having a summer break. Sessions will resume in september 2013. There will be a new person in charge of the organization but you can still contact Guillaume [guillaume.dezecache [at] ens.fr] if you want to give a talk in september.