Mandy Simons
Professeure de philosophie et de linguistique
Carnegie Mellon University
Participe à 3 sessions
Mandy Simons is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon. She works primarily on issues in the foundations of pragmatics, with a focus on presupposition and implicature. Other work engages with the nature of convention and the phenomenon of bridging. Currently, she is working on a project to rethink the basic model of conversational exchanges by eliminating common ground as a central theoretical construct.
Sessions auxquelles Mandy Simons participe
Vendredi 29 Mai, 2026
Fuseau horaire: (GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:15 AM
9:15 AM EDT -
6:00 PM EDT |
8 heures 45 minutes
Thème : Linguistic perspectives on reasoning and decision-making
Sous sessions:
- Introduction
- Conversation without common ground
- Mental states, questions and the Multiple Perspectives Theory of communication
- What's in common ground? Studies on the omission and inclusion of redundant information
- Common Ground, Acceptance, and Conversation Plans
- Panel de la session
- Séance d'affichages
9:30 AM
9:30 AM EDT -
10:30 AM EDT |
1 heure
This talk will discuss proposals for modeling conversational exchanges without invoking common ground. ReferenceSimons, M. (2025). Availability without common ground. Linguistics and Philosophy, 48(1), 179–211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-024-09426-4
3:45 PM