Title: Sense-Making in Physics Viewed through the Lens of Cognitive Semantics Speaker: Edward F. (Joe) Redish Department of Physics University of Maryland Abstract: A primary goal of our teaching physics to a variety of populations is to have them not just learn to 'go through the motions' of doing physics by manipulating equations, but to have them learn to 'make sense' with the physics. Although we often say this, what does it mean? We interpret 'making sense' through the lens of modern cognitive linguistics and semantics, which has, for the past twenty years, made good progress in understanding what it means to 'make sense' of everyday language. One immediate conclusion is that the suggestions of some education researchers that there is a 'right ontology' for physical quantities and that it should be taught early is badly misguided.