THINKING OF EVENTS - PERSPECTIVES FROM PHILOSOPHY, LINGUISTICS, AND NEUROSCIENCE
What are events? Do they make up a distinct ontological category? Do they exist independently of objects? What are the linguistic means to talk about events? What does the semantics of natural language tell us about them? How are events cognitively represented? Is there a genuine neural realization of event representations? These are the topics we will discuss at the one-day workshop. Everybody interested is welcome to participate. To register, please send an email to the address shown below.
Date: 1 July 2010, UV 3/310
Location: Ruhr University Bochum
Organization: Prof. Dr. Markus Werning and Dr. Michela Tacca
Inquiries: markus.werning@rub.de
Registration: aenne.petersen@uv.rub.de
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10.00h | Michela Tacca & Markus Werning | Welcome |
| 10.10h | Marcus Kracht (U Bielefeld) |
Atelic events and mass nouns |
| 11.25h | Coffee | |
| 11.40h | Ulrich Reichard (Durham U) |
With syntax against event arguments |
| 12.55h | Lunch | |
| 14.00h | Ricarda Schubotz (MPI for Neurobiological Research, Cologne) |
Cerebral signatures of event prediction |
| 15.15h | Coffee | |
| 15.30h | Achille Varzi (Columbia U, New York) |
The semantics and metaphysics of event individuation (via video conference from New York) |
| 16.45h | Regine Eckardt (U of Göttingen) |
Events and participants: Challenges on the way from sentence to meaning |
| 18.00h | Coffee | |
| 18.15h | Markus Werning (Ruhr U Bochum) |
Pure events? The cognitive (in)de-pendence of object and event representations |
| 19.30h | End | |
| 20.00h | Dinner |