Announcements:

• March 10 Class will be 8am-10am PST
  
• ​Office hours will now be Fridays 2-3.  Please contact me for an appointment outside of this time.
  

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SYLLABUS

The seminar will be organized around guest lectures from international researchers in philosophy and cognitive science.  (The first two meetings will be for background.)

​Recurring zoom link.

Format for speaker-days:

• 2-3: discussion (without speaker)
• 3-4: speaker presentation
• 4-5: Q+A (with speaker)

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​W 1/6

1. Representation and meaning beyond language
​[GG]

Handout
Reading​​

• No required reading.
• (Suggested) Giardino and Greenberg (2015) "Varieties of Iconicity"

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​W 1/13

2. The architecture of linguistic meaning 
[GG]

Handout
Reading​​

• Portner (2005) What is Meaning?, Ch 1: "The Fundamental Question", Ch 2 (through 2.4): "Putting a Meaning Together from Pieces", and Ch. 3.6: "Modeling Properties with Sets and Functions"

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​W 1/20

3. The compositionality of perception
Kevin Lande (York)

Reading​​

• ​Lande, K. (MS) "Compositionality and Context Perception"

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W 1/27

​4. Character and content in depiction
 John Kulvicki (Dartmouth)

Reading​​

• ​Selections from Kulvicki (2020) ​Modelling the Meaning of Pictures
  • ​Chapter 1, "Pictures, Communication, and Meaning"
  • Chapter 2, "Character, Content, and Reference"
  • Chapter 3, "Pictorial Dthat"

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W 2/3

5. Iconic and symbolic representation
[GG]

Reading​

• ​Greenberg, G. (MS) "The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum"

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W 2/10

6. Image production and graphical conventions 
Judy Fan (UCSD)

Reading

• ​Fan, J. E., Yamins, D. L., & Turk‐Browne, N. B. (2018). Common object representations for visual production and recognition. Cognitive science, 42(8), 2670-2698.
• Hawkins, R. X., Sano, M., Goodman, N. D., & Fan, J. W. (2019). Disentangling contributions of visual information and interaction history in the formation of graphical conventions. In CogSci Proceedings (pp. 415-421). 

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F 2/19
[Friday]

7. Algorithmic bias and proxy representation
Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont McKenna)

NOTE CHANGE OF DAY!  Meeting on Friday
Reading

• Johnson, G. (MS) "Proxies Aren't Intentional, They're Intentional"​

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W 2/24

8. Semantic properties of diagrammatic representation systems
Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha)

Reading

• Selections from Semantic Properties of Diagrams and their Cognitive Potentials
  • ​Chapter 1, "Introduction"
  • Chapter 2, "Potential for Free Ride in Inference"

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W 3/3

9. Multi-modal discourse and coherence
Malihe Alikhani (Pittsburgh)

Reading

• Alikhani, M., Sharma, P., Li, S., Soricut, R., & Stone, M. (2020). Clue: Cross-modal Coherence Modeling for Caption Generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00908.
• Alikhani, M., & Stone, M. (2018, August). Arrows are the verbs of diagrams. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 3552-3563).

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​W 3/10

​10. Towards a formal semantics of dance
Pritty Patel-Grosz (Oslo)

​Note: 8am - 10 am PST

​Reading

• Patel-Grosz, P., Grosz, P. Kelkar, T., Jensenius A. (MS) Steps towards a formal semantics of dance. 
• Optional: a video version of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTpbFQWm0E

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Reading Guide