[Event at CIG] [Update] DEON Seminar Series Spring Edition: Cleo Condoravdi – June 02

[Huimin DONG]

*DEON Seminar Series Spring Edition: Cleo Condoravdi *

*– June 02*



The Society of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON) has launched
a seasonal online seminar series designed to promote interdisciplinary
cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical study
of normative concepts, normative language, and normative systems with
computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy,
organization theory, and law. We view the seminar series as an opportunity
to keep in touch with the DEON community and listen in or contribute to
presentations and informal discussions on ongoing work. Everyone who is
interested in this wonderful area and its questions is welcome.



We are happy to announce that our speaker for the DEON spring seminar will
be



*Cleo Condoravdi *

*(Stanford University)*



*Title: Imperatives and the Indirectness of Linguistic Meaning*

*Abstract: Imperatives in natural language are used not only to command or
prohibit, but also to request, plead, offer, permit, and even to merely
express a wish, to give advice on how-to, or to concede. What is common
across all these uses? I will propose that imperatives create commitments
to preferences. None of the perceived interpretations of imperatives
reflect their meaning directly. They all arise from inferences about why
the speaker would incur the commitment. This view explains the
communicative equivalence of imperatives with necessity modals in some
uses, and with possibility modals in others, despite their different
underlying semantics. Moreover, it explains an interesting asymmetry
between goal-oriented modals and imperatives: while modals can be used to
give advice on why a certain goal should be rescinded given the facts of
the matter, imperatives cannot.*



Date and time: *June 02, 5:30pm – 7:00pm CEST*



Zoom data:

https://umd.zoom.us/j/89287004976

Meeting ID: 892 8700 4976



Virtual gathering: join us for a virtual gathering on wonder.me after the
talk! No registration is needed, just follow this link:
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=3536c0e5-c486-4ff2-876a-91e569f4190b



If you are interested in the upcoming events in this series, subscribe
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Please check this website to see our previous events:

https://icr.uni.lu/deonticlogic/lectureseries.html





We hope to see you on the 2nd of June!





Ilaria Canavotto, Huimin Dong, and Réka Markovich

DEON Seminar Series organizers





======== Guidelines of Participation =========



1) Please MUTE your microphone during the talk and during the Q&A unless
you have been called on to ask a question. (And please do not ask questions
or follow-ups in the Q&A unless you’ve been called on – i.e., no
interrupting).



2) If you would like to ask a question during the Q&A, please use the
“raise hand” tool on Zoom.



3) Please frame your questions in a constructive and collegial spirit!



Many thanks in advance!