Igal Kvart
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Date: November 3, 2025 (Monday)
Time: 14:00–16:00
Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A116
Location: Shandong University, Central Campus
Abstract
Steering-Thrust-Posting Pragmatics (STPP) has four main components: steering thrust, pragmatic stances, conversational etiquette, and posting. (1) Steering thrust: The speaker, who generates the verbal act, steers hearers or readers towards certain pragmatic states to a certain degree. (2) Pragmatic stances: Positions or states towards which the generators and consumers of verbal acts steer the hearer. (3) Conversational etiquette: The norms governing pragmatics, including the normative obligations of both the consumers and, primarily, the generators of verbal acts. (4) Posting: A derivative commitment undertaken by the speaker in view of the verbal act and the norms of conversational etiquette. STPP covers a broader domain of pragmatic phenomena than traditional pragmatics and aims to show that pragmatic phenomena are much more pervasive than we have taken them to be.
About the Speaker
Igal Kvart is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mind.