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MCMPRelating Theories of Intensional Semantics: Established Methods and Surprising ResultsKristina Liefke (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "Relating Theories of Intensional Semantics: Established Methods and Surprising Results". Abstract: Formal semantics comprises a plethora of ‘intensional’ theories which model propositional attitudes through the use of different ontological primitives (e.g. possible/impossible worlds, partial situations, unanalyzable propositions). The ontological relations between these theories are, today, still largely unexplored. In particular, it remains unclear whether the basic objects of some of these theories can be reduced to objects from other theories (s.t. phenomena which are modeled by one...2018-03-1700 minMCMP – Metaphysics and Philosophy of LanguageMaking Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque PhenomenonMarkus Werning (Bochum) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (11 December, 2014) titled "Making Quotation Transparent: A Compositional Analysis of an Apparently Opaque Phenomenon". Abstract: Quotation is regarded as a paradigmatically opaque context. This is due to two failures: (i) A failure of substitution: in quotations the substitution of an expression with a synonym does not leave the meaning of the embedding context unchanged. (ii) A failure of existential generalization: in quotations the replacement of a singular term with an existentially bound variable does not constitute a valid inference. From the failure of substitution it is often inferred that quotation violates...2015-01-2100 min