I just found out about this today when I saw a poster for it in the mailroom at the department. UPenn is hosting a Linguistics Colloquium Feb 23-25. Sessions on all the usual areas of linguistics will be offered.
Here’s the link if you’ll be in the area or if you plan on being in the area for it!
emma :: Feb.05.2007 :: misc, linguistics :: No Comments »
I second the frustration of Gillian Russell re: finding original works by Richard Montague. It’s amazing to me that Formal Philosophy… is so hard to get. And extremely maddening. (Although, hey! I can get an electronic copy of it from Springer for $32. $32?! It’s a PDF! Montague is dead! Who the hell is that money going to?! Grr, intellectual property laws in academia.) Thankfully, the library at Brown had a copy, but I’m still shocked that it’s so near-impossible to get your hands on this book. I mean, the Lambda Calculus was easier to track down, and I originally had to order it from the publishers in the Netherlands (but yay, Amazon!).
emma :: Feb.05.2007 :: semantics, misc, logic, reading, philosophy, linguistics :: No Comments »
For Nathan:
(And yes, I know, the greyhound looks more like a cocker spaniel.)
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Andy Clark is giving a talk this Monday night (so, depending on when I finish writing this post, tomorrow or today) at Brown. It’s part of the department’s public lecture series (pdf of the poster for the series), and it looks like it’ll be pretty interesting (not linguisticky, though). Here’s the official information:
MIND READERS
The Cognitive and Linguistic
Sciences in the 21st Century20th Anniversary Public Lecture Series
Andy Clark
University of Edinburgh“Embodiment and the sciences of mindâ€
Andy Clark is author of the influential Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again, and a leading authority on the philosophy of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. In particular, he has been a key developer of the theory of embodied cognition and the extended mind. Clark holds the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, and was previously the Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Indiana. He is the author of the best-selling Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence and Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
February 5, 2007, 7:30 pm
Salomon Center 001, Brown University
So, if you’re in the Providence area, come out and learn something new!
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