[PlanetKR] [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between goal-oriented modals and imperatives: while modals can be used to give advice on why a certain goal should be rescinded given the facts of the matter, imperatives cannot.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 <https://umd.zoom.us/j/89287004976 >
Meeting ID: 892 8700 4976
Virtual gathering: join us for a virtual gathering on wonder.me <http://wonder.me/ > after the talk! No registration is needed, just follow this link:https://www.wonder.me/r?id=3536c0e5-c486-4ff2-876a-91e569f4190b <https://www.wonder.me/r?id=3536c0e5-c486-4ff2-876a-91e569f4190b >
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Please check this website to see our previous events: 
https://icr.uni.lu/deonticlogic/lectureseries.html <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!
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