This workshop aims to bring together researchers from philosophy and linguistics to discuss tense in natural language. Among the questions to be addressed may be the following:

Should tense be analyzed with object-language quantifiers and variables, or could an adequate analysis be provided using Priorian operators?
To what extent should tense and modality receive parallel treatments in semantics?
What can we learn from data concerning embedded tenses?
Does the semantics of tense tell us anything about the metaphysics of time, or vice versa?
Are propositions temporally neutral, or are they time-specific objects with eternal truth-conditions?
Can the compositional semantics of tense tell us anything about whether temporalism or eternalism about propositions is correct?
What is the status of the Kaplanian “operator argument” for temporalism?
Confirmed speakers are: Dorit Abusch (Cornell) Berit Brogaard (Missouri) Peter Ludlow (Northwstern) Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst) Brian Rabern (Edinburgh) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

Schedule
Thursday 5th June
10:00-11:30 Brian Rabern The compositionality argument for temporalism
11:30-11:45 Short break
11:45-13:15 Mark Steedman Computation, Probability, and Temporal Ontology
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Berit Brogaard Temporalism and the Problem of Intentionality
16:00-16:30 Tea/coffee

Friday 6th June
10:00-11:30 Peter Ludlow Four-dimensional Tensism
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:15 Dorit Abusch Temporal succession and aspectual type in visual narrative
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Angelika Kratzer Representing temporal relations
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Scots Philosophical Association.

For more information about this event, please send an email to the workshop organisers at arche@st-andrews.ac.uk