LINGUIST List 23.541 Thu Feb 02 2012 Calls: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholing, Anthro Ling/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Markus Werning , Agents and Causes: In Mind, Language and Culture Message 1: Agents and Causes: In Mind, Language and Culture Date: 01-Feb-2012 From: Markus Werning <markus.werningrub.de> Subject: Agents and Causes: In Mind, Language and Culture E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Agents and Causes: In Mind, Language and Culture Short Title: AGCA2012 Date: 21-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012 Location: Bielefeld, Germany Contact Person: Markus Werning Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/ZIF/FG/2011Cognition/events/2012-Agency.html Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2012 Meeting Description: Agents and Causes: Interdisciplinary Aspects in Mind, Language and Culture ZiF Bielefeld, March 21 - 23, 2012 Organization: Albert Newen (Bochum), Anne Springer (Potsdam), Christopher Topp (ZiF) and Markus Werning (Bochum) http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/ZIF/FG/2011Cognition/events/2012-Agency.html The workshop is devoted to the question what it means for an agent to be the cause of an action: What is the metaphysics of the agent role in causation? How is this role mentally represented? What are the linguistic structures that express the agent role and how do they vary across languages? What can go wrong in representing the agent role, e.g., in psychiatric disorders? These questions will be discussed by scientists from various disciplines, including Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics and Anthropology. The key topics of the workshop are: Agency & Free Will Sense of Agency Agency & Agentivity in Language Agency: Cross-Cultural Perspective Keynote Speakers: Artemis Alexiadou (Linguistics, U Stuttgart), Leon De Bruin (Philosophy, U Bochum), Nicole David (Neuroscience, U Hamburg), Robert Kane (Philosophy, U Texas), James Moore (Neuroscience, U Cambridge), Albert Newen (Philosophy, U Bochum), Elisabeth Pacherié (Cognitive Science, CNRS Paris), Paulo Sousa (Anthropology, Queen's U Belfast), Robert Van Valin (Lingusitics, U Düsseldorf), Martin Voss (Neuroscience, Humboldt U Berlin), Markus Werning (Philosophy, U Bochum), Thomas Widlock, (Anthropology, MPI Nijmegen) Call for Papers: We invite submissions for spot-light presentations (20 minutes, including discussion) and poster presentations on one of four topics of the conference. Submission of abstracts (550 words including references) opens January 25 and closes February 15. For more information on submissions, please view our website: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/ZIF/FG/2011Cognition/events/2012-Agency.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.