In his will, Dr. Rolf Schock, who died in 1986, specified that half of his estate should be used to fund four prizes in the fields of Logic and Philosophy, Mathematics, the Visual arts and Music. The prizes in Logic and Philosophy and in Mathematics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and those in the Visual arts and Music by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music respectively.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy to Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany and Irene Heim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA;
“for (mutually independent) conception and early development of dynamic semantics for natural language”.
Programme
09:00
Dynamic Semantics of Discourse and Dialogue, almost half a century of it
The Rolf Schock Prize Laureate Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany
10:05
Coffee break
10:20
Truth Value Gaps and the Innovations of Dynamic Semantics
The Rolf Schock Prize Laureate Irene Heim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
11:30
Lunch, not included
13:00
Reflections on the History of Kamp-Heim Dynamic Semantics
Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
14:00
Interpretation from left to right
Reinhard Muskens, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15:00
Coffe break
15:30
Reflections on Presupposition Projection and Attitude Reports
Anders Schoubye. Stockholm University, Sweden
16:30
Dynamic context update and the foundations of formal pragmatics
Craige Roberts, Ohio State University, USA
17:30
End of symposium
The event is free of charge and open to the public, but registration is required for all participants.
Images: Hans Kamp, photo Kerstin Sänger.Irene Heim.,photo: Philipp Heim-Antolin.
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