<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is a reminder:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Philosophy of Language Research group:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>On Thursday, 30 January 2020, 13.15 –14.45h in Room 3A (3rd floor NIG, Universitätsstr 7), <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Mark Bowker (University College Dublin) <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>will give a talk on:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Sterken on Generics<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Abstract: Rachel Sterken argues that generics are context-sensitive and that their context-sensitivity should be given a distinctive semantic explanation, leading her to posit an unpronounced indexical quantifier. I argue that Sterken fails to show that the context-sensitivity is semantic and present an alternative: that context-sensitivity arises from pragmatic completion of an incomplete logical form.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>All welcome.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>–––––––––––––––––––––<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Max Kölbel<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Institut für Philosophie<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Universität Wien<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>1010 Wien<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Austria<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>Tel: +43 1 4277 46470<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><a href="mailto:max.koelbel@univie.ac.at" class="">max.koelbel@univie.ac.at</a><br class=""></body></html>