Workshop – Foundations of Common Ground

Date
7 November 2025, 09:00 – 8 November 2025, 16:15
Location
See below
Type
Workshop
Organiser
Department of Philosophy
Contact person
Andreas Stokke

Venue

Campus Blåsenhus

Room 12:004

Programme

Friday, November 7

9:00–9:15

Workshop Opening

9:15–10:30

Merel Semeijn (University of Groningen)
Common Ground Beyond the Grave

10:30-10:45

Fika (coffee)

10:45-12:00

Bart Geurts (Radboud Nijmegen)
Common Ground and Joint Pretence

12:00-13:30

Lunch at Segerstedtshuset (self-funded)

13:30-14:45

Dan Harris (Hunter College/CUNY)
Common Ground Pluralism

15:00-16:15

Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon)
Presupposition and Accommodation without Common Ground

16:15-16:30

Fika (coffee)

16:30-17:45

Eliot Michaelson (Kings College London) & Henry Schiller (Kings
College London)
What are Communicative Intentions?

19:30

Workshop Dinner at Messob


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Saturday, November 8

9:30–10:45

Ray Buchanan (UT Austin)
Meaning and Uncommon Knowledge

10:45–11:00

Fika (coffee)

11:00–12:15

 

Andrew Peet (Umeå)
Intending to be Understood

 

12:15–14:00

Lunch at Uppsala Castle

14:00–14:30

 

Student Session

Nico Magliocco (University of Groningen)
On Shaky (Common) Ground. On the Meta-Theoretical Role of
Common Ground in the Explanation of Language

• Sadie Carey (Hunter College/CUNY)
Fictional Statements and Mixed Discourse Anaphora

• Steven Hernandez (Hunter College/CUNY)
Nonliteral Speech on the Common Playground

 

14:30–15:00

Fika (coffee)

15:00–16:15

Jessica Pepp (Uppsala)
Commitment and Sincerity from a ‘direct reference’ Point of View


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