brian rabern
Past talks.
Future talks.
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"The myth of occurence-based semantics", Colloquium session at Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 2020.
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- "A plea for epistemic counterpart theory", Arché Language and Mind Seminar, St. Andrews, May 26, 2020.
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tbd, Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Interuniversity Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 1, 2020.
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tbd, Stockholm University, Centre for Logic, Language, and Mind, Sept. 26, 2020.
- "Semantic monsters", Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, Lancaster University, February 5, 2020.
- The paradox of self-blame, Workshop on Blame and Responsibility, University of Edinburgh, April 8, 2019.
- Against Fregean Predicate Logic, Workshop on Identity and Quantification, University of Birmingham, December 17-18, 2018.
- Toward a solution to the nesting problem for two-dimensionalism, Workshop on Philosophical Applications of Modal Logic, University of Oslo, June 13-14, 2018.
- Variables and quantification, Kompaktseminar in Logik (7), Göttingen, Germany, March 20-23, 2018.
- Symposium: Compositional Semantics, Commentator on Silke's "Semantics with Assignment Variables", Pacific APA, March 29, 2018.
- Future contingents and temporal omniscience, Dartmouth Sapientia Lecture Series, Hanover, NH, August 8, 2017.
- The myth of occurrence-based semantics, Context and variables workshop, All Souls College, Oxford, May 13 2017.
- Future contingents and the retrospections of god, Edinburgh Language Workshop 2, December 1, 2016.
- A bridge from semantic value to content, Glasgow University Philosophy Society, November 2, 2016.
- A bridge from semantic value to content, The Jowett Society, Oxford University, October 21, 2016.
- The myth of occurrence-based semantics, What is Said--What is Meant, Berlin, Germany, September 9-13 2016.
- The myth of occurrence-based semantics, Mid-Atlantic Philosophy of Language Workshop, Morgantown, WV, August 4, 2016.
- Quantifiers vs intensional operators: a distinction without difference, Workshop on Operators vs Quantifiers, Barcelona, Spain, July 1, 2016.
- Binding across quantifiers concealed in diamonds, MCMP Colloquium in Mathematical Philosophy, Munich, Germany, June 9, 2016.
- Binding the bound, Edinburgh Language Workshop, Scotland, May 9, 2016.
- Variables under epistemic modals, St. Andrews Philosophy Club, March 30, 2016.
- Variables under epistemic modals, VSS Staff Seminar, Edinburgh, November 27, 2015.
- Variables under epistemic modals, Toronto M&E Group, University of Toronto, October 23, 2015.
- A solution to the problem of recurring demonstratives, Pacific APA, Vancouver, Canada, April 1, 2015.
- Semantic pluralism and the meaning of 'x', The Semantic Pluralism Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, January 19th, 2015.
- The compositionality argument for temporalism, Arché Tense in Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop, June 5, 2014.
- Propositional content under contextual shifting and updating, Berkeley/CSMN Metasemantics Workshop, March 9, 2014.
- The antinomy of the variable: renewed and resolved, Institute of Philosophy, London, LEM Forum, November 11, 2013.
- Tenses, sentences, and schmentences, Workshop on Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values, University of Oslo, June 2013.
- Propositions and reference in natural language semantics, Arché Philosophy of Semantics Workshop, St. Andrews, May 2013.
- Embedding and the objects of assertion, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, July 10, 2012.
- Descriptions which have grown capital letters, Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 5, 2012. (poster presentation for 39th Language@Ed)
- Assertoric content and variable binding, Leeds University, Leeds, UK, February 12, 2012.
- Two-dimensionalism and the argument from binding, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, January 20, 2012.
- Monsters in Kaplan's Logic of Demonstratives, Eastern APA, Washington, DC, December 28, 2011.
- Semantic content and variable binding, 3rd Semantic Content Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, November 4, 2011.
- Natural language semantics and propositions, ANU Philosophy Society, Canberra, Australia, March 15, 2011.
- Propositional content and compositionality, Propositions and Same-Saying workshop, Sydney, Australia, July 21, 2010.
- Embedding indexicals, Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia, July 3, 2010.
- A puzzle about names, ANU Philosophy Society, Canberra, Australia, September 3, 2010.
- Monsters in the semantics, Friday Seminar, St. Andrews, Scotland, November 11, 2009.
- Why double indexing?, Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia, July 7, 2009.
- The character of names and epistemic monsters, ANU Philosophy Society, Canberra, Australia, December 3, 2008.
- Is direct reference a pragmatic phenomenon?, Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia, June 30, 2008.
- The names as predicates hypothesis, Kioloa Workshop, New South Wales, Australia, 2008.