Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience

Gaetano Fiorin is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Logic at University College Utrecht and a researcher affiliated to the Utrecht institute of Linguistics (UiL-OTS). He graduated with a thesis on the semantic competence of children with developmental dyslexia. His research work spans from theoretical linguistics – particularly the semantics of the first-person and its implications for the syntax-semantics interface and the metaphysics of meaning – to experimental linguistics – particularly developmental dyslexia and multilingualism.Denis Delfitto is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Verona. He graduated at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and had many research and teaching experiences in a number of American and European universities. His publications – in international scientific journals and peer-reviewed volumes – span from the syntax of reference and quantification in natural language – including issues of comparative syntax and semantics – to issues of language change and language impairment. His core interest is the investigation of the human capacity for language from a broad cognitive and philosophical perspective.

• Part I. Meaning and Objects.- Beyond Sense.- Meaning and Grammar.- Models and Formal Language.- Montague Grammar.- Meaning and Possibility.- Propositional Attitudes.- Natural Language Metaphysics.- Part II: Meaning and Subjects.- Semantic Externalism.- Meaning and Use.- Meaning and World.- Meaning and Mind.- Meaning and Indexicality.- Meaning and Context.- Meaning and Causality.- Meaning and Acquaintance.- Attitudes de se.- Worlds and Centers.- Meaning and (Epistemic) Subjectivity.- Meaning and Private Objects.- Implicit de se.- Conscious Experience.- Semantic Internalism.- Part III. Meaning, Language and Perception.- Meaning at the Interface.- The Old View of Perception.- The New View of Perception.- Meaning as Perception.- Cognitive Propositions.- Meaning and Conscious Experience.- Meaning and Other Minds.- Meaning and Nature