BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T170000 SUMMARY:Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) UID:20240319T102236Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:
Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) is an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs\, pejoratives\, and evaluative and expressive terms in general\, from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature\, and in particular\, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. Its main aim is to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories. Empirical studies of the expressions mentioned from such languages\, comparisons with English slurs\, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches are welcome. We also welcome developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena.
\nThe network's coordinators are Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod/CNRS) &\; Dan Zeman (Slovak Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw). More information about the network and its activities can be found at \;https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork.
\nWe organize a regular monthy SEMINAR (see details under the "Seminar" section of the website) and an annual WORKSHOP (see details under the "Workshops" section of the website.
\nIMPORTANT: We are currently accepting new members! To become a member of STAL\, please send an email to both coordinators with a short description of your work in the area and your motivation for joining the network.
\nContact: \;isidora.stojanovic@cnrs.fr \;and \;danczeman@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T170000 SUMMARY:Sign-Language-Reality 2023/24 UID:20240319T102237Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Sign-Language-Reality seminar colloquia (2023/2024).
Sign-Language-Reality (organized jointly by the Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Warsaw and Polish Semiotic Society) is the oldest philosophical seminar in Poland.
We are interested in papers that address topics in philosophy of language\, philosophy of mind\, philosophical logic\, semantics\, pragmatics\, history of semiotic ideas\, philosophy of linguistics\, philosophy of psychology\, philosophy of cognitive science\, philosophy of law etc.
Deadline for submissions (for the academic year 2023/24): the 1st of September 2023
(the notification of acceptance shall be sent by the 20th of September 2023).
You are kindly asked to send your submission to Tadeusz Ciecierski (taci@uw.edu.pl)
In the submission please include the following information:
- TITLE OF PRESENTATION WITH SHORT ABSTRACT (UP TO 200 WORDS)
- AFFILIATION
- PROPOSED MONTH OF THE PRESENTATION (BETWEEN OCTOBER 2023 &ndash\; JUNE 2024)
The seminars are held on selected Fridays at 5 PM (Central European Time). The suggested speaking time is 45-75 minutes\, the seminar lasts until the end of the discussion (but no longer than till 8 PM).
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to send a longer abstract or the full text of the paper two weeks before the presentation (the material will be shared on the seminar's website).
The 2022/23 SLR seminar shall be held entirely online.
The following speakers accepted an invitation to deliver a talk at the 2023/24 SLR seminar:
Kamil Cekiera (University of Wrocław)
Maria de Ponte (University of the Basque Country)
Matej Drobnak (University Of Hradec Krá\;lové\;)
Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers University)
Alexandru Radulescu (University of Missouri)
It has been said of Frege that he &lsquo\;introduced and brilliantly exploited second-order variables ranging over concepts&rsquo\; so that contemporary higher order logic &lsquo\;is a good model&rsquo\; of his logicist system. Quine has been a fierce critic of second-order logic and has consistently advocated restricting quantification to first-order variables. Second-order variables are commonly taken to range over concepts\, properties\, relations\, or functions and from early in his career\, Quine deemed these to be &lsquo\;abstract entities&rsquo\; of dubious scientific value. In this paper I ask\, do Quine&rsquo\;s objections to second-order quantification engage with Frege? I argue that they do not. Quine fails to differentiate\, within the notion of meaning\, Fregean concepts&ndash\;&ndash\; which are not objects&ndash\;&ndash\;from objects\, the referents of singular terms. Nor does he recognise the difference between the concept/object distinction and that between the sense of an expression and what is indicated by it. He has in his sights Carnapian &lsquo\;intensions\,&rsquo\; which confusedly merge Frege&rsquo\;s concept/object and sense/indication (reference) distinctions. Because he does not engage with Frege&rsquo\;s actual semantics\, Quine&rsquo\;s objections to Frege&rsquo\;s second-order quantifiers fail. Moreover\, it is argued\, once looked at in a Fregean light\, Quine&rsquo\;s account of quantification turns out to be seriously confused.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240321T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240322T170000 SUMMARY:Au prisme de la métaphore: repenser la relation entre philosophie et poésie UID:20240319T102239Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:UNIL - Château de Dorigny\, Lausanne\, Switzerland\, 1015 DESCRIPTION:En posant la poé\;sie comme rivale de la philosophie\, Platon a marqué\; du sceau de la querelle la relation entre philosophie et poé\;sie. Cette relation conflictuelle devient ainsi un problè\;me philosophique et un enjeu poé\;tique. Mais cette querelle ne doit pas nous faire oublier que Platon é\;crivait ses thè\;ses philosophiques sous formes de dialogues inté\;grant des mythes et autres figures poé\;tiques. S&rsquo\;il pose la poé\;sie comme rivale de la philosophie\, c&rsquo\;est é\;galement parce que celle-ci contamine né\;cessairement le discours philosophique. Les dé\;veloppements ulté\;rieurs ont ré\;é\;valué\; cette relation\, en prô\;nant parfois l&rsquo\;identification de la philosophie et de la poé\;sie\, comme chez les romantiques allemands\, ou au contraire en l&rsquo\;excluant\, comme chez les positivistes logiques. Mais cette relation n&rsquo\;est jamais neutre et la problé\;matique qu&rsquo\;elle abrite se doit d&rsquo\;ê\;tre é\;tudié\;e.
\nDans cette relation tensive\, une notion occupe une place essentielle: celle de mé\;taphore. En effet\, bien qu&rsquo\;elle soit souvent considé\;ré\;e comme une figure de style rattaché\;e à\; la poé\;sie\, la mé\;taphore é\;gaye constamment le discours philosophique\, nos multiples discours\, poé\;tiques ou ordinaires\, et nos diverses formes de pensé\;e\, cré\;ative ou utilitaire. Comment cette mé\;taphoricité\; du discours philosophique met-elle en jeu les rapports entre philosophie et poé\;sie ? On peut alors penser cette mé\;taphoricité\; selon les perspectives de Nietzsche\, Derrida\, Bachelard\, entre autres. Dans quelle mesure les conceptions cognitivistes de Lakoff et Johnson (&ldquo\;everyday metaphor&rdquo\;)\, Turner et Fauconnier (&ldquo\;conceptual blending&rdquo\;)\, ou Forceville et Urios-Aparisi (&ldquo\;multimodal metaphor&rdquo\;) modifient-elles ces rapports ? Quelles sont alors les spé\;cificité\;s de la mé\;taphore ? Faut-il distinguer plusieurs types de mé\;taphores (philosophique\, poé\;tique\, etc.) ? La mé\;taphore se dilue-t-elle dans le raisonnement philosophique ?
ORGANIZER;CN=Philip Mills;CN="Romain Debluë";CN=Melina Marchetti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240322T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240322T234500 SUMMARY:Workshop on Truth\, Definability and Quantification into Sentence Position UID:20240319T102240Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS
\nWorkshop on Truth\, Definability and Quantification into Sentence Position
27 and 28 September 2024\, University of Vienna
Jointly organised by Max Kö\;lbel\, Julio de Rizzo and Benjamin Schnieder
Can truth be defined? Frege argued that it couldn't. Ramsey argued that defining it would be easy if only we had an analysis of judgement. Today Horwich claims that truth cannot be defined explicitly because doing so would require quantification into sentence position and such quantification is not coherent. Instead he proposes a &ldquo\;minimal theory&rdquo\; of truth\, which comprises all the unproblematic instances of the equivalence schema. Kü\;nne\, by contrast\, argues that quantification into sentence position is coherent and may actually be part of some natural languages. Kü\;nne uses such quantification to define truth explicitly:
&forall\;x (x is true iff &exist\;p ((x is the proposition that p) &\; p)). Or in English: a representation (belief\, assertion etc) is true just if things are as it represents them as being. Kü\;nne claims also to find this definition in Frank Ramsey&rsquo\;s posthumous work\, which\, as an exegetical claim\, is not uncontroversial.
Is truth definable? Is propositional quantification coherent? Do natural languages involve propositional quantification\, and in what sense? What do the answers to these questions mean for philosophical attempts to define or explain truth? Is truth redundant if explicitly definable? Not redundant if not explicitly definable? We are interested in these and related questions (broadly conceived).
\nConfirmed speakers are:
\nPeter Fritz (Australian Catholic University)
Paul Horwich (New York University)
Wolfgang Kü\;nne (University of Hamburg)
Poppy Mankowitz (University of Bristol)
Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)
We invite submissions of extended abstracts (1000 words max.) for up to 3 further talks. Please send your anonymized abstracts by 22 March 2024 to truthwien@gmail.com. Selected speakers will be notified by mid April. We will cover accommodation of selected speakers (and on application offer them a travel subsidy of up to 400 Euros).
\nThis workshop is supported by the FWF Cluster of Excellence project "Knowledge in Crisis"\, the FWF project "Truth is Grounded in Facts" and the University of Vienna.
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Kölbel";CN=Julio De Rizzo;CN=Benjamin Schnieder: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240330T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240330T234500 SUMMARY:Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics UID:20240319T102241Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Bâtiment de l’Horloge\, 25 avenue François Mitterrand\, Nice\, France DESCRIPTION:Workshop: \;New Work on the Ontology and Semantics of Events
\nUniversité\; Cô\;te d&rsquo\;Azur\, Nice\,
\nDate: 18-19 June 2024
\n \;Events (in the broad sense) play a fundamental role in our interaction with the word: actions\, events\, processes\, states are crucial components of the reality as we represent it. Research on events comprises disciplines as diverse as natural language semantics\, the syntax-semantic interface\, analytic metaphysics\, applied ontology and conceptual modeling.
\nEvents have come to play a central role in natural language since Davidson&rsquo\;s highly influential proposal and has to a great range of developments including\, in its Neo-Davidsonian version in the syntax-semantic interface. There are a range of challenges to its have received little attention\, such as the distinction between events and acts\, events and abstract states\, events and situations (as truthmakers). Moroever there are alternatives to Davidsonian events semantics that have been proposed\, but ask for further developments\, such as truthmaker semantics\, force semantics and radical decomposition of verbs in syntax. Finally\, there are a great range of interesting issues regarding events and syntatcic structure\, including the decomposition of event predicates in syntactic structure and the relevance of cartography for event semantics. \;
\nRecently\, also the metaphysics of events have seen renewed interest. Several issues have been addressed such as that concerning nature of\, and the internal structure of\, processes and events\, the related issue that concerns the modal profile and the essential properties of events (and whether these features differ from the ones possessed by processes)\, the question of whether a theory concerning these entities has a descriptive or prescriptive import\, as well as the issue concerning the relations between events\, dispositions\, and causation\, and that concerning the nature of negative events and actions.
\nFinally\, the notion of event is pervasive and play a key role in applied ontology and conceptual modeling. It is a general category of the most widespread foundational ontologies such as UFO\, DOLCE\, and BFO. On the one hand\, these ontologies recently provided insightful accounts concerning the nature of events\, their part-whole structure\, and their difference from\, e.g.\, situations\, states\, and processes. On the other hand\, the notion of events played a key role in elucidating notions such as those of prevention\, risk\, production\, money\, and many others.
\nThis workshop aims to bring together new research on events from the different perspectives.
\nSubmission: If you want to contribute\, please submit an abstract of approximately 1000 words suitable for a 30-minutes presentation that should be prepared for blind review and include a cover page with the full name\, institution\, and contact information. Abstracts should be sent in PDF format to: enwosworkshop@gmail.com
\nFurther information:
\nConference Fees: 60&euro\; regular\; 40&euro\; students/unemployed
\nWebpage: https://sites.google.com/view/enwos
\nInformal queries: enwosworkshop@gmail.com
\nDeadline for submission: 30 March 2024
\nNotification of acceptance: 15 April 2024
\nReferences:
\nR. Casati and Varzi: &lsquo\;Events&rsquo\;. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online)
\nR. Casati and A. Varzi (eds.): Events. Darthmouth Publ. Company\, 1996
\nF. Moltmann: &lsquo\;Events in Contemporary Semantics&rsquo\; (forthcoming)\, in M. Cassina et al. (eds): 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic / Continental Divide. Edinburgh UP.
\nTruswell\, R. (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford UP\, Oxford\, 2019.
\nJ. Higginbotham\, F. Pianesi\, A. Varzi (eds.): Speaking of Events. Oxford UP\, 2000.
\nS. Rothstein (ed.): Events and Grammar\, Kluwer\, 1998
\nA. Williams (2021): &lsquo\;Events in Semantics&rsquo\;. In P. Stalmaszscuk (ed.): Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge UP.
ORGANIZER;CN=Nikos Angelopoulos;CN=Riccardo Baratella;CN=Lena Baunaz;CN=Ludger Jansen;CN=Friederike Moltmann;CN="Kalle Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240331T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240331T234500 SUMMARY:AEDE - Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Human Experience UID:20240319T102242Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Praça da Faculdade de Filosofia 1\, Braga\, Portugal\, 4710-297 DESCRIPTION:.International Conference
\nAffective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience (AEDE)
\nLanguage\, Cognition and Culture
\nBraga\, July 3rd-5th\, 2024
\nCEFH - Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies
\nUniversidade Cató\;lica Portuguesa
\nFaculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences &ndash\; Braga
\nCall for Abstracts
\nRecently emotions have re-emerged as a topic of great scientific and philosophical interest. Psychologists\, cognitive scientists\, neuroscientists\, philosophers and linguists have engaged in inter- and intra-disciplinary debates concerning the ontology and phenomenology of emotions\, the epistemic and cognitive dimensions of emotions\, the role that our bodies play in the experience and constitution of emotions\, the physiological\, mental or cultural nature of emotions\, the cultural specificity of emotions\, to name just a few.
\nThese issues\, however\, have been treated quite differently\, either from a first-person or from a third-person approach to emotions and affectivity\, and either from a universalist-psychophysiological\, or a relativistic-cultural view of emotions and feelings.
\nThe aim of this conference is to analyze the affective and emotional dimensions of human experience from an interdisciplinary perspective\, especially in philosophy\, psychology and linguistics\, and to contribute to broadening contemporary debates and shed light on the pivotal role of affectivity and emotion in human being and becoming.
\nWe invite contributions from disciplines concerned with the topic\, including both theoretical and applied perspectives: cognitive science\, neuroscience\, social\, cultural\, clinical\, and developmental psychology\, psychophysiology\, psychiatry\, philosophy of mind\, phenomenology\, cognitive linguistics\, anthropology\, cultural studies\, history\, computer science.
\nSuggested topics include (but are not restricted to):
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Cognitive processes and emotions: attention\, memory\, learning\, motivation\, judgments\, and decision-making
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The role of cultural determinants in emotion elicitation\, regulation and expression: how culture influences cognition
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; 4E and post-cognitivist approaches to emotion and affectivity
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Sociocultural variability of emotions
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic differences in emotions
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The history of emotions
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Affectivity as a key component of habits
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The phenomenology of human experience\, affectivity and intersubjectivity
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The interplay between cognition\, culture and emotion in social behavior\, health-related behavior\, and psychopathology
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Embodied accounts of affectivity in post-cognitivist cognitive science
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotional intelligence and education\, social and emotional competence\, social and emotional health
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotion in language (lexicon and grammar\, language acquisition and change)
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The conceptualization of emotions and components of emotion concepts
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Figurativity (metaphor\, metonymy\, irony\, etc.) in the conceptualization of emotions
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Developmental aspects of language and emotion
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotion in applied linguistics: language teaching\, intercultural communication\, advertisement\, psychotherapy
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Affectivity\, emotion and mirror neurons
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotion in the interaction between humans and artificial agents
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotions as enhancers or inhibitors in situated action: empathy\, ethics\, politics
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The epistemic value of emotions: how knowledge is modulated by affectivity
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Affectivity\, sexuality and gendered emotional experience
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Emotions in discourse analysis: populism\, polarization and media discourse
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; Semantic approaches for sentiment analysis with computational tools
\n·\;  \;  \;  \;  \; The aesthetics of emotion: sensibility and embodied artistic practices
ORGANIZER;CN=Augusto Soares da Silva;CN=Filippo Batisti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240401T130000 SUMMARY:Social Justice through Counter Speech\, Deplatforming\, and Silencing UID:20240319T102243Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:72 N Oval Mall\, Columbus\, United States DESCRIPTION:Often\, people&rsquo\;s words are harmful. Potential examples include: a classmate appealing to racist stereotypes in a class discussion\, a politician tweeting misogynistic rhetoric on family organization\, and an invited speaker promoting transphobic misinformation. When faced with harmful speech\, how should we respond? Is counterspeech efficacious\, or does it merely worsen the problem? When is protest permissible\, and against whom? Do companies have an obligation to &ldquo\;de-platform&rdquo\; or suspend the accounts of users spreading harmful speech? \;
\nWe are grateful to host keynotes by Mary Kate McGowan (Philosophy\, Wellesley College) and Brookes Brown (Philosophy\, Toronto).
\nWe are accepting abstracts from graduate students who have not yet received their degree at time of submission on these and related questions for our conference in Autumn 2024. OSU will offer modest travel stipends to accepted authors. \;
\nTo be considered for the conference\, please email an anonymized abstract of 300-750 words to \;OSUMAPConference@gmail.com \;by April 1\, 2024
\nWe are grateful to the \;Center for Ethics and Human Values \;at Ohio State for their generous support.
ORGANIZER;CN=Ali Aenehzodaee;CN=Jacob MacDavid;CN=Layne Garrelts: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102210Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240401T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240401T234500 SUMMARY:Wait\, what? A Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistakes UID:20240319T102244Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätsstraße 7\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\n
WAIT\, WHAT? A Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistakes \;
The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) welcomes submissions of abstracts for its 13th annual graduate conference: \;Wait\, what?! A Graduate Conference on Nonsense. The conference will take place in hybrid format July 4 &ndash\; 6\, 2024.
\nConference Venue: \;Department of Philosophy\, University of Vienna\, Austria (hybrid)
Dates: \;July 4 &ndash\; 6\, 2024
Abstract Deadline: \;April 1\, 2024
Notification of Success: \;May 31\, 2024
Keynote Speakers:
Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) &\; Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)
Ofra Magidor (Oxford)
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Topic:
Nonsense is a kind of a failure of engaging in rational discourse that seems more fundamental than saying a mere falsehood &mdash\; to utter nonsense is to have failed to say anything at all. This year&rsquo\;s WFAP graduate conference aims to bring together early career and advanced researchers in order to discuss questions such as: How is an illusion of sense even possible? How can one distinguish nonsense from sense? How do different theories of meaning account for nonsense? Are there distinct kinds of nonsense\, e.g. gibberish\, category mistakes\, ambiguities etc.\, or are all cases of nonsense due to the same kind of transgression? What is nonsense&rsquo\;s role in philosophical theorizing\, both as a target of criticism and as an argumentative device? Does nonsense occur in ordinary discourse or is it a phenomenon that is particular to philosophical theorizing?
We welcome submissions on any topic related to our theme including but not limited to:
\nSubmission information:
\n&ndash\; Length: \;Maximum of 500 words\, suitable for a 25-30min presentation (45min including Q&\;A)
&ndash\; \;Language: \;English
&ndash\; \;Deadline: \;April 1\, 2024
&ndash\; \;Submission: \;Please submit a PDF of your anonymized abstract to \;alina.sophie.jacobs@univie.ac.at \;with the subject line &ldquo\;WFAP 2024 Abstract Submission&rdquo\;\, along with a cover sheet containing your name\, email-address and institutional affiliation.
&ndash\; \;Funding: We aim to provide some funding for some of our invited graduate speakers. Please do let us know\, whether you would like to be considered for our funding.
This conference aims to foster dialogue among young researchers (advanced MA and PhD) interested in these topics\, providing a platform to present and discuss work in progress.
\nAll abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy. Accepted papers should be suitable for a 25-30min. presentation. It should be clear from your abstract which authors and debates your paper will address. Contributions relating to the work of the keynote speakers are particularly welcome.
\nIf you have any questions regarding our conference\, please do not hesitate to contact the Forum&rsquo\;s chairperson\, Martin Niederl (martin.niederl@univie.ac.at).
\nWe especially welcome and encourage submissions from members of under-represented groups in philosophy!
\nWebsite: \;https://wfap.philo.at/13th-wfap-graduate-conference/
\nWe look forward to your submissions!
\nCheers\,
The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy
1ST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 3rd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst &ndash\; September 20-21\, 2024 \;
\nKeynote speakers: Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst) and Dilip Ninan (Tufts University)
\n\nThe Third Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association will take place at UMass Amherst on September 20-21\, 2024. The goal of the conference\, and of the association\, is to provide a venue for philosophers of language to discuss new work in all areas of the field. \;
\nCall for abstracts: We welcome submissions of abstracts of at most 1000 words (including footnotes\, excluding bibliography). The plan is to have presentations of one hour\, split between the talk and the Q&\;A\, with 4 selected papers presented on each day of the conference.
\nWe encourage submissions from philosophers who work in philosophy of language\, broadly construed. We particularly want to encourage submissions from women\, LGBTQIA people and members of other groups that have been marginalized in our field. \;
\nDeadline for submission: April 15
\nNotification of acceptance: May 15 \;
\nSubmissions should be prepared for blind review\, and submitted as PDFs with a separate PDF as cover sheet that includes: the author&rsquo\;s name\, gender (optional)\, institutional affiliation\, contact information\, and paper title. One abstract may be submitted per person. \;
\nAttendance at the conference is free\, though unfortunately there are currently no funds available to cover travel or accommodation costs of those attending. \;
\nPlease send your submission to confpla@gmail.com
\nFor questions\, please write to confpla@gmail.com
\n\nThe organizers: Guillermo Del Pinal\, Eliot Michaelson\, Alex Radulescu\, Katherine Ritchie\, Una Stojnić\, Emanuel Viebahn\, Julia Zakkou.
\nWe are pleased to announce that the 27th Conference Applications of Logic in Philosophy and the Foundations of Mathematics will be held in \;Szklarska Poręba from May 6 to May 10\, 2024. Traditionally\, the organizers of the conference are Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences\, University of Wrocław\, Department of Mathematics\, University of Opole\, and Institute of Mathematics\, University of Silesia in Katowice. In addition\, this year the conference organizers have also been joined by Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences\, University of Łó\;dź\, Department of Logic\, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń\, and Department of Logic and Cognitive Science\, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The event is being held under the patronage of Polish Association for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
\nWe encourage everyone interested in logic to participate in our conference. Contributions related to logic\, logical philosophy\, pragmatics\, foundations of mathematics and related areas are welcome. The abstracts of about 30-40 minutes talks\, not extending one page\, should be submitted via the registration form\, available at our webside. \;The deadline for submissions is April 3\, 2024 \;and the notification of acceptance will be sent until April 12\, 2024.
\nThe conference venue is situated in the Sudetes Mountains on the Polish-Czech border at Olimp Hotel in Szklarska Poręba.
\nFor further information about the conference\, the venue\, registration and payments\, please visit the conference website.
ORGANIZER;CN=Janusz Czelakowski;CN=Anna Glenszczyk;CN=Andrzej Indrzejczak;CN="Tomasz Jarmużek";CN="Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion";CN="Elżbieta Magner";CN=Marcin Selinger;CN="Tomasz Połacik": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240515T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240515T070000 SUMMARY:Agency and Intentions in AI UID:20240319T102247Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Wilhelmspl. 1\, 37073\, Göttingen\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Call for papers
\nWe cordially invite submissions from linguists\, philosophers\, cognitive scientists and computer scientists exploring topics related to agency and intentions with respect to human linguistic competence and/or in AI systems. Some questions and topics that will be in the scope of the conference are as follows:
\nThe list of topics above is not exhaustive. The heart of the topics is a drive to learn and discover more about AI systems as potential agents and decision-makers. While the conference is not directly focused on providing solutions to ethical problems in AI development\, questions of ethics and moral responsibility both motivate the discussion and will be included in the conference. What AIAI will uniquely achieve\, though\, is an interdisciplinary conversation about the technical philosophical and linguistic features of the very AI systems that humans will continue to employ in ever more domains of social life. A new phase AI is here\, and we think this offers new opportunities and challenges for people in all areas of life. Our goal is to meet these opportunities and challenges through the unique theoretical perspectives offered by linguists\, philosophers\, computer scientists\, and cognitive scientists. After all\, it is impossible to take practical moral action in response to AI systems if we cannot make sense of what AI is\, does\, or intends.
\nAbstract submission
\nSubmission opens: November 13\, 2023
\nSubmission deadline: February 11\, 2024
\nAnonymous abstracts\, not exceeding 2 pages (including references and examples)\, with font no less than 11 Times New Roman\, and 2 cm margins\, should be uploaded on AIAI EasyChair website. We expect to notify authors of their acceptance by March 11\, 2024. Presentations will be allotted 30 minute slots with 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kyle Thompson;CN=Julie Goncharov: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240517T170000 SUMMARY:Agency and Intentions in AI UID:20240319T102248Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Wilhelmspl. 1\, 37073\, Göttingen\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Call for papers\n\nWe cordially invite submissions from linguists\, philosophers\, cognitive scientists and computer scientists exploring topics related to agency and intentions with respect to human linguistic competence and/or in AI systems. Some questions and topics that will be in the scope of the conference are as follows:
\nThe list of topics above is not exhaustive. The heart of the topics is a drive to learn and discover more about AI systems as potential agents and decision-makers. While the conference is not directly focused on providing solutions to ethical problems in AI development\, questions of ethics and moral responsibility both motivate the discussion and will be included in the conference. What AIAI will uniquely achieve\, though\, is an interdisciplinary conversation about the technical philosophical and linguistic features of the very AI systems that humans will continue to employ in ever more domains of social life. A new phase AI is here\, and we think this offers new opportunities and challenges for people in all areas of life. Our goal is to meet these opportunities and challenges through the unique theoretical perspectives offered by linguists\, philosophers\, computer scientists\, and cognitive scientists. After all\, it is impossible to take practical moral action in response to AI systems if we cannot make sense of what AI is\, does\, or intends.
\n\nAbstract submission\n\nSubmission opens: November 13\, 2023
\nSubmission deadline: February 11\, 2024
\nAnonymous abstracts\, not exceeding 2 pages (including references and examples)\, with font no less than 11 Times New Roman\, and 2 cm margins\, should be uploaded on AIAI EasyChair website. We expect to notify authors of their acceptance by March 11\, 2024. Presentations will be allotted 30 minute slots with 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Kyle Thompson;CN=Julie Goncharov: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240515T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240515T234500 SUMMARY:1st Baltic Workshop in the Philosophy of Language UID:20240319T102249Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Krynica Morska\, Poland DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines
\nWe invite submission of abstracts for 45-minute presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous\, of max. 1000 words (excluding references). Each accepted paper will have a commentator\, selected from the participants (who will be asked to serve as commentators)\, with ample time for discussion (90 minutes/slot). 12 to 16 abstracts will be selected for presentation. Abstracts are due before May 15\, 2024 and should be submitted via e-mail to both taci@uw.edu.pl and danczeman@gmail.com. \;We expect to notify authors of the selection result by June 1\, 2024. The deadline for sending the drafts of accepted papers to the commentators is September 1\, 2024.
ORGANIZER;CN=Tadeusz Ciecierski;CN="Tomasz Puczyłowski";CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240516T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240517T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein on Lying – International Conference UID:20240319T102250Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:91\, avenue de la Libération\, Nancy\, France\, 54000 DESCRIPTION:The question of the nature of lying is very present in Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s later texts. Lying is often understood as &ldquo\;speaking against one&rsquo\;s thought with the intention of deceiving&rdquo\;\, which presupposes that a person who lies is entirely transparent to themselves and has a unique access to their distinctive mental states. Yet Wittgenstein is well known to precisely challenge this &ldquo\;myth of interiority&rdquo\; (the expression comes from Jacques Bouveresse)\, i.e. the thesis\, sometimes called &ldquo\;mentalist&rdquo\;\, that thinking presupposes awareness of meanings that are in the mind\, and to which each consciousness then alone has access. Indeed\, much of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;philosophy of psychology&rdquo\; consisted in analyzing the difficulties encountered by this presupposition of psychological interiority. Then how can we define lying if it cannot consist in speaking against \;one&rsquo\;s conscious thinking\, disguising it in and through what we say?
\nWittgenstein says in \;Philosophical Investigations :
\n\nAre we perhaps over-hasty in our assumption that the smile of an unweaned infant is not a pretence?-And on what experience is our assumption based?
(Lying is a language-game that needs to be learned like any other one.) (PI \;249)
Why is it difficult to imagine a lying baby? Because lying has to do with the intention to deceive by saying what we believe to be false\, but does not have to correspond to \;a particular impression\, but rather to what we know how to do with language. Many of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s remarks in the Cambridge Courses\, 1946-1947 criticize the notion of an &ldquo\;impression of lying&rdquo\;. In the notes taken by A.C. Jackson\, Wittgenstein insists that lying does not consist in this impression\, but presupposes &ldquo\;a motive\, a situation&rdquo\; ([p. 314]) And Wittgenstein is even quoted as saying that\, when it comes to lying\, this is &ldquo\;the essential thing&rdquo\;! Wittgenstein thus seems to propose that the tools for explaining lying are not internal psychological states or processes\, but a particular language game.
\nThe aim of the symposium is twofold. In the first place\, we would like to gain a better understanding of what Wittgenstein says about lying (and hence of his philosophy of meaning and psychology). Secondly\, we would like to better understand the nature of lying itself\, its moral\, anthropological and interactional stakes\, with Wittgenstein\, but also with inputs from other traditions and methods (ethnomethodology in particular).
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Anna C. Zielinska;CN=Roger Pouivet: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20240516T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20240517T170000 SUMMARY:Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-2024) UID:20240319T102251Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Klemensova 19\, Bratislava\, Slovakia DESCRIPTION:Description
\nSlurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-24) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature\, and in particular\, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. It aims to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories of slurs. We search for theoretical and empirical studies of slurs from such languages\, comparisons with English slurs\, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches. We also welcome developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena.
\nProgram Committee \;(alphabetical\, as of November 2023)
\nBianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)\; Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)\; Leopold Hess (Jagiellonian University)\; Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)\; Natalia Karczewska (University of Warsaw)\; Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod)\; Chang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)\; Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)\; Eleonora Orlando (CONICET/University of Buenos Aires)\; André\;s Saab (SADAF/University of Buenos Aires)\; Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod)\; Dan Zeman (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
\nOrganizing committee
\nThe workshop is organized by Isidora Stojanovic and Dan Zeman\, and is part of the activities of the STAL Network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork).  \;
\nVenue
\nThe conference will be held at the Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences\, Klemensova 19\, 811 09 Bratislava. Bratislava is easy to reach by plane from all major cities in Europe. It has it own airport\, and is also very close to Vienna International Airport\, connection with which is assured by regular buses (length of trip: approx. 1 hour).
\nContact
\nAll questions about the workshop should be emailed to \;stalnetwork@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240517T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240517T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop on Jessica Keiser's 'Non-Ideal Foundations of Language' UID:20240319T102252Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:New Haven\, United States DESCRIPTION:Jessica Keiser's first book 'Non-Ideal Foundations of Language' challenges traditional\, highly idealized models for theorizing about language and presents a new\, non-ideal foundational theory (responding to the work of Grice\, Lewis and Stalnaker) which aims to better account for a diverse range of social and political linguistic phenomena. \;
\nThis workshop brings together some of the most prominent and influential philosophers of language to discuss features of Keiser's book and its impact in shaping the burgeoning field of social and political philosophy of language. \;
\nThere will be presentations from Luvell Anderson\, Nancy Bauer\, Elisabeth Camp\, Justin Khoo and Jennifer Saul as well as concluding remarks from Jessica Keiser.
\nIf you are interested in attending please RSVP on this PhilEvents page.
ORGANIZER;CN=Parris Sammut;CN=Rachel Maden: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20240529T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20240530T170000 SUMMARY:Alien Structure Workshop UID:20240319T102253Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Stockholm LOCATION:Thunbergsvägen 3H\, Uppsala\, Sweden DESCRIPTION:The Alien Structure Workshop will consist of eight talks\, four of which will be given by invited speakers\, and four of which will be filled via open call. Selection will be based on anonymous review of long abstracts (750-1000 words).
\nThe main themes of the workshop will be these: What sorts of languages can there be? More specifically\, what sorts of semantic differences can there be between languages? Can there be alien languages &ndash\; languages whose expressions have semantic functions radically different from those of expressions of familiar languages? This is relevant to metaphysics. Might some such unfamiliar languages better represent reality? Might reality have alien structure that can only be fully captured by such a language?
\nThe workshop will be held as part of the Alien Structure research project\, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council. Researchers within the project are Matti Eklund (principal investigator) and Daniel Berntson (postdoc). For more information\, see the following link \;(https://www.filosofi.uu.se/research/research-projects/alien-structure/).
ORGANIZER;CN=Daniel Berntson;CN=Matti Eklund: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240530T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240531T170000 SUMMARY:Experimental Semantics in Philosophy UID:20240319T102254Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Oslo LOCATION:Trondheim\, Norway DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Experimental Semantics in Philosophy:
\nTrondheim\, Norway.
\nMay 30-31\, 2024.
\nOrganized by EXLANG\, the Research Group for Experimental Philosophy of Language at NTNU Trondheim.
\nLocal organizers:
\nJussi Haukioja\, NTNU Trondheim\, jussi.haukioja@ntnu.no
\nJeske Toorman\, NTNU Trondheim\, jeske.toorman@ntnu.no
\nInvited speakers:
\nDaniel Cohnitz (Utrecht University)
\nMichael Devitt (CUNY)
\nJincai Li (East China Normal University)
\nEdouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
\nGenoveva Martí\; (University of Barcelona)
\nTopic:
\nSince the publication of Machery et al.&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Semantics\, Cross-Cultural Style&rdquo\; (2004)\, experimental methods have gained more and more foothold in philosophy of language. Different theorists have had very different aims in conducting experimental work: Machery et al. aimed to undermine the widespread reliance on intuitions about fictional cases as evidence in philosophy of language\, while more recently\, many philosophers of language have started to appeal to experimental data on ordinary speakers&rsquo\; usage and judgments about meaning and reference as evidence for and against philosophical theories. Despite this divergence in aims\, there is quite broad agreement among philosophers of language that experimental work can at least in principle be of relevance for philosophy of language. Most theorists agree that the facts that theories in philosophy of language attempt to get right &ndash\; for example\, the facts about reference or meaning &ndash\; are intimately connected to how language is in fact used. This makes experimental work potentially relevant to philosophy of language\, in a much more direct way than in other areas of philosophy.
\nAt the same time\, experimental philosophy of language is in many ways in its infancy\, not least methodologically. There is no general consensus regarding what kinds of experimental design are best fit for investigating reference\, meaning\, and other linguistic phenomena of interest to philosophers. Developing valid experimental designs requires first-order philosophical work on the foundations of reference\, meaning\, and other linguistic phenomena.
\nThis workshop will bring together both established names in experimental philosophy of language and more junior researchers\, and the contributions will include both papers presenting new experimental data\, and papers with a more methodological and metaphilosophical focus\, clarifying the relevance &ndash\; or lack thereof &ndash\; of experimental work in general as well as the results from particular types of experimental setups\, for philosophy of language.
\nCall for Abstracts:
\nIn addition to the invited speakers\, we will have space for 2-4 contributed papers on the programme. Submissions should include both a short abstract (max 200 words) and an extended abstract (max 1000 words). Please anonymize both the short and the extended abstract\, include them in a single pdf document\, and send the document as an attachment to an email with subject &ldquo\;Submission to Experimental Semantics Workshop&rdquo\;\, to Jeske Toorman (jeske.toorman@ntnu.no) by February 29. Please provide author and affiliation information in the body of the email.
\nThe authors of accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit their manuscripts to a Thematic Symposium on Experimental semantics in philosophy\, in Philosophical Studies\, edited by the workshop organizers.
\nImportant dates:
\nDeadline for submissions: February 29
\nNotification of acceptance: March 15
\nIf you would like to attend the workshop without presenting anything\, please notify us in advance before May 1\, due to limited space. All inquiries about the workshop should be sent by email to Jeske Toorman: jeske.toorman@ntnu.no.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jussi Haukioja;CN=Jeske Toorman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240603T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240603T090000 SUMMARY:Jason Stanley: The Politics of Language - 1st Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society UID:20240319T102255Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse\, Dortmund\, Germany\, 44137 DESCRIPTION:Call for Contributions
\nWe invite presentations on any aspect of Beaver and Stanley's book\, with potential topics including\, but not limited to:
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nRegistration and Additional Information
\nAccommodation and travel expenses for speakers will be borne by the organizers. For registration details\, conference program\, and additional information\, please visit our website or contact the organizing committee at peter.koenigs@tu-dortmund.de.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katja Crone;CN=Max Gab;CN="Peter Königs": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240606T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240607T170000 SUMMARY:Frege meets modern pragmatics UID:20240319T102256Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Essen\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Gottlob Frege is often considered the founding father of modern semantics\, but his work also contains numerous observations on pragmatic issues such as indexicals\, (illocutionary) force\, presupposition\, and colouring.
\nIt has often been assumed that Frege mentions these issues only to brush them aside and that his account of pragmatic phenomena therefore does not deserve much attention. More recently\, however\, scholars such as Laurence Horn (2007\, 2013) and Lauri Karttunen (2016) have argued that Frege offers a &ldquo\;versatile and subtle toolkit&rdquo\; (Horn 2007) for analysing pragmatic factors.
\nThe aim of the workshop is to take a fresh look at Frege&rsquo\;s toolkit and to evaluate the prospects for a &ldquo\;Fregean pragmatics&rdquo\;.
\nThe workshop is part of the project &ldquo\;Zur Aktualitä\;t von Freges Pragmatik&rdquo\;\, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
ORGANIZER;CN=Thorsten Sander: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20240610T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20240612T170000 SUMMARY:New approaches to evaluative discourse UID:20240319T102257Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Stockholm LOCATION:Umeå universitet\, Umeå\, Sweden\, 907 28 DESCRIPTION:What distinguishes evaluative discourse from non-evaluative discourse? By virtue of what meaning mechanisms are specific terms and phrases evaluative? What are the similarities and differences between different types of evaluative terms? \;
\n \;
\nThe last twenty years have given rise to a host of new approaches to these issues. For instance\, in the discussion of predicates of personal taste\, assessment relativism has been developed to accommodate phenomena such as faultless disagreement. In metaethics\, a variety of new formal semantic and metasemantic theories have been put forth as a response to embedding problems for expressivism about moral terms. In the surging discussion of slurring terms\, socio-linguistic aspects of meaning have been appealed to in order to explain their evaluative force. The aim of the conference is to explore how such new approaches to evaluativity in language can be developed\, criticized or generalized to other evaluative domains. \;
\nFor questions: \;
\n\nkatharina.felka@uni-graz.at
\nnils.franzen@umu.se
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Nils Franzén";CN=Katharina Felka: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240617T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240621T170000 SUMMARY:Summer School: A map through the land of dragons. Syntax\, Truth\, and Paradox UID:20240319T102258Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Via Giuseppe Buffi 13\, Lugano\, Switzerland\, 6900 DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the summer school "A map through the land of dragons. Syntax\, Truth\, and Paradox" taking place at USI\, Lugano \;from June 17 to June 21 under the guidance of Volker Halbach (University of Oxford) and Lorenzo Rossi (University of Turin).
\nDescription of content:
\nVolker Halbach and Lorenzo Rossi will provide an introduction to the theory of the semantic paradoxes and discuss their proposed solutions\, analyses\, and their philosophical relevance. The liar and related paradoxes do not only affect the notion of truth\, but others that are central to philosophy such as necessity\, apriority\, and future truth. We will study the properties of such sentences as The sentence in italic on this page is not true in a precise formal setting. Participants are not expected to be familiar with techniques such as arithmetization and diagonalization. Bypassing the unnecessary mathematical tools by using an axiomatic syntax theory\, we will still provide a formally precise account and proceed swiftly to the philosophical core of the discussions around the paradoxes. In particular\, we will discuss the effect of paradoxes on the expressive power of truth\, necessity\, and related notions\, as well as their impact on the foundations of semantics. We will also cover a wide variety of paradoxes such as the Visser-Yablo\, the Knower\, McGee's\, and the No Future paradox. We will critically discuss a gamut of conceptions of paradoxicality\, applying them to the study of the various kinds of paradoxes we have introduced\, and we will investigate their connection with some of the main formal theories of truth.
\nMost of the content will be based on Graham Leigh's and Volker Halbach's new book The Road to Paradox: A Guide to Syntax\, Truth\, and Modality\, which is scheduled to appear with Cambridge University Press in January 2024. The summer school\, however\, will be self-contained and all relevant teaching materials will be supplied to participants. Moreover\, the course givers are happy to adjust their plans to the wishes and preferences of the audience to some extent. Hence there may be some deviations\, especially in the later parts.
\nRegistration:
\nDeadline: \;February 15\, 2024
\nRegistration is open to graduate students and early career researchers.
\nPlease send a copy of your CV\, a one-page motivation letter and a reference letter from a supervisor or colleague to paradox.summerschool@usi.ch
\nAccepted participants will have the possibility to send a short abstract to present some of their research to the two instructors (time permitting).
\nFee:
\nThe fee for accepted participants is 400.- Swiss francs. It includes participation in the summer school\, coffee breaks\, 4 lunches and 2 drinks (one on the first evening and a second on another evening).
\nMore information:
\nwww.usi.ch/paradox
\nparadox.summerschool@usi.ch
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240618T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240619T170000 SUMMARY:Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics UID:20240319T102259Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Bâtiment de l’Horloge\, 25 avenue François Mitterrand\, Nice\, France DESCRIPTION:Workshop: \;New Work on the Ontology and Semantics of Events
\nUniversité\; Cô\;te d&rsquo\;Azur\, Nice\,
\nDate: 18-19 June 2024
\n
Events (in the broad sense) play a fundamental role in our interaction with the world: actions\, events\, processes\, states are crucial components of reality as we represent it. Research on events comprises disciplines as diverse as natural language semantics\, the syntax-semantic interface\, analytic metaphysics\, applied ontology and conceptual modeling. \;
Events have come to play a central role in natural language semantics since Davidson&rsquo\;s highly influential proposal\, which has led to a great range of developments including\, in its Neo-Davidsonian version\, in the syntax-semantic interface. There are a number of challenges that have received little attention\, though\, such as the distinction between events and acts\, events and abstract states\, as well as events and situations (as truthmakers). Moreover\, there are alternatives to Davidsonian events semantics that have been proposed\, but ask for further developments\, such as truthmaker semantics\, force semantics and radical decomposition of verbs in syntax (as light verb-noun complexes). Finally\, there are various interesting issues regarding events and syntactic structure\, including the decomposition of event predicates in syntactic structure and the relevance of cartography for event semantics.
\nRecently\, also the metaphysics of events have seen renewed interest. Several issues have been addressed such as that concerning nature of\, and the internal structure of\, processes and events\, the related issue that concerns the modal profile and the essential properties of events (and whether these features differ from the ones possessed by processes)\, the question of whether a theory concerning these entities has a descriptive or prescriptive import\, as well as the issue concerning the relations between events\, dispositions\, and causation\, and that concerning the nature of negative events and actions.
\nFinally\, the notion of event (in the broad sense)  \;is pervasive and plays a key role in applied ontology and conceptual modeling. It is a general category of the most widespread foundational ontologies such as UFO\, DOLCE\, and BFO. On the one hand\, these ontologies recently provided insightful accounts concerning the nature of events\, their part-whole structure\, and their difference from\, e.g.\, situations\, states\, and processes. On the other hand\, the notion of events played a key role in elucidating notions such as those of prevention\, risk\, production\, money\, and many others.
\nThis conference aims to bring together new research on events from different perspectives. \;
\nSubmission: If you want to contribute\, please submit an abstract of approximately 1000 words suitable for a 30-minutes presentation that should be prepared for blind review and include a cover page with the full name\, institution\, and contact information. Abstracts should be sent in PDF format to: enwosworkshop@gmail.com \;
\nFurther information:
\nConference Fees: 60&euro\; regular\; 40&euro\; students/unemployed
\nWebpage: https://sites.google.com/view/enwos
\nInformal queries: enwosworkshop@gmail.com
\nDeadline for submission: 30 March 2024
\nNotification of acceptance: 15 April 2024
\nReferences:
\nR. Casati and Varzi: &lsquo\;Events&rsquo\;. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online)
\nR. Casati and A. Varzi (eds.): Events. Darthmouth Publ. Company\, 1996
\nF. Moltmann: &lsquo\;Events in Contemporary Semantics&rsquo\; (forthcoming)\, in M. Cassina et al. (eds): 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic / Continental Divide. Edinburgh UP.
\nTruswell\, R. (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford UP\, Oxford\, 2019.
\nJ. Higginbotham\, F. Pianesi\, A. Varzi (eds.): Speaking of Events. Oxford UP\, 2000.
\nS. Rothstein (ed.): Events and Grammar\, Kluwer\, 1998
\nA. Williams (2021): &lsquo\;Events in Semantics&rsquo\;. In P. Stalmaszscuk (ed.): Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge UP.
ORGANIZER;CN=Nikos Angelopoulos;CN=Riccardo Baratella;CN=Lena Baunaz;CN=Ludger Jansen;CN=Friederike Moltmann;CN="Kalle Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240703T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240705T170000 SUMMARY:AEDE - Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience UID:20240319T102300Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Praça da Faculdade de Filosofia 1\, Braga\, Portugal\, 4710-297 DESCRIPTION:.
ORGANIZER;CN=Augusto Soares da Silva;CN=Filippo Batisti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240704T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240706T170000 SUMMARY:Wait\, what? A Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistakes UID:20240319T102301Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätsstraße 7\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\n
WAIT\, WHAT? A Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistakes \;
The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) welcomes submissions of abstracts for its 13th annual graduate conference: \;Wait\, what?! A Graduate Conference on Nonsense. The conference will take place in hybrid format July 4 &ndash\; 6\, 2024.
\nConference Venue: \;Department of Philosophy\, University of Vienna\, Austria (hybrid)
Dates: \;July 4 &ndash\; 6\, 2024
Abstract Deadline: \;April 1\, 2024
Notification of Success: \;May 31\, 2024
Keynote Speakers:
Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) &\; Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)
Ofra Magidor (Oxford)
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Topic:
Nonsense is a kind of a failure of engaging in rational discourse that seems more fundamental than saying a mere falsehood &mdash\; to utter nonsense is to have failed to say anything at all. This year&rsquo\;s WFAP graduate conference aims to bring together early career and advanced researchers in order to discuss questions such as: How is an illusion of sense even possible? How can one distinguish nonsense from sense? How do different theories of meaning account for nonsense? Are there distinct kinds of nonsense\, e.g. gibberish\, category mistakes\, ambiguities etc.\, or are all cases of nonsense due to the same kind of transgression? What is nonsense&rsquo\;s role in philosophical theorizing\, both as a target of criticism and as an argumentative device? Does nonsense occur in ordinary discourse or is it a phenomenon that is particular to philosophical theorizing?
We welcome submissions on any topic related to our theme including but not limited to:
\nSubmission information:
\n&ndash\; Length: \;Maximum of 500 words\, suitable for a 25-30min presentation (45min including Q&\;A)
&ndash\; \;Language: \;English
&ndash\; \;Deadline: \;April 1\, 2024
&ndash\; \;Submission: \;Please submit a PDF of your anonymized abstract to \;alina.sophie.jacobs@univie.ac.at \;with the subject line &ldquo\;WFAP 2024 Abstract Submission&rdquo\;\, along with a cover sheet containing your name\, email-address and institutional affiliation.
&ndash\; \;Funding: We aim to provide some funding for some of our invited graduate speakers. Please do let us know\, whether you would like to be considered for our funding.
This conference aims to foster dialogue among young researchers (advanced MA and PhD) interested in these topics\, providing a platform to present and discuss work in progress.
\nAll abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy. Accepted papers should be suitable for a 25-30min. presentation. It should be clear from your abstract which authors and debates your paper will address. Contributions relating to the work of the keynote speakers are particularly welcome.
\nIf you have any questions regarding our conference\, please do not hesitate to contact the Forum&rsquo\;s chairperson\, Martin Niederl (martin.niederl@univie.ac.at).
\nWe especially welcome and encourage submissions from members of under-represented groups in philosophy!
\nWebsite: \;https://wfap.philo.at/13th-wfap-graduate-conference/
\nWe look forward to your submissions!
\nCheers\,
The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy
Special Issue of Linguistics and Philosophy
\n
Guest Editors: Michael Glanzberg\, Chris Kennedy\, Daniel Lassiter\, Dejan Makovec\, Stewart Shapiro
Please announce intentions to submit to the special issue via email with the subject line &ldquo\;Open Texture and Semantics&rdquo\; to Dejan Makovec: dem161@pitt.edu
\n
Submission: https://www.springer.com/journal/10988
Please use the general &ldquo\;submit manuscript&rdquo\; link. During the submission process you will be asked if the paper is submitted for a special issue. Once you say yes\, you can select the relevant special issue. Submissions to the special issue will go through the standard review procedure of Linguistics and Philosophy. For inquiries about the special issue please contact Dejan Makovec: dem161@pitt.edu
Content Description:
A predicate is said to exhibit &ldquo\;open texture&rdquo\; if neither its history of application\, nor any attempt at defining it\, can determine its applicability to all new cases we may encounter in the future. According to the notion&rsquo\;s originator\, Friedrich Waismann\, most empirical concepts display open texture: their meanings may be clearly delimited in familiar contexts\, but do not determine their application in novel and surprising cases.
\nThe notion of open texture is found in debates on the semantics of vague predicates (Williamson 1994\, Shapiro 2006)\, but more broadly in the literature on the philosophy of science\, language and mathematics\, as well as in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and meta-philosophy (Will 1974\, Wilson 2006\, Yablo 2008\, Chalmers 2012\, Machery 2017\, Shapiro &\; Roberts 2021). In addition\, it has a bearing on deep issues in lexical semantics and pragmatics\, and on questions about language change.
\nPossibly due to its wide applicability\, this notion itself displays some open texture. Among the questions we envisage for this special issue are the extent to which open texture is a phenomenon of natural languages\, how the notion is best described\, and to what extent semantics (and logic) can and should accommodate it. This special issue also welcomes submissions that draw on Waismann&rsquo\;s related papers on analyticity\, meaning and conceptual change in science\, such as &ldquo\;Verifiability&rdquo\; (1945)\, &ldquo\;Are There Alternative Logics&rdquo\; (1945-1946) &ldquo\;Language Strata&rdquo\; (1946/1953)\, &ldquo\;The Decline and Fall of Causality&rdquo\; (1959) or his series &ldquo\;Analytic-Synthetic&rdquo\; (1949-1953).
\nChalmers\, David. 2012. Constructing the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
\nMachery\, Edouard. 2017. Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
\nMakovec\, Dejan &\; Shapiro\, Stewart. (eds.) 2019. Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy\, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
\nMcGuinness\, Brian. 2011. Friedrich Waismann&mdash\;Causality and Logical Positivism. Dordrecht: Springer.
\nShapiro\, Stewart. 2006. Vagueness in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
\nShapiro\, Stewart &\; Craige Roberts. 2021. &ldquo\;Open texture and mathematics&rdquo\;. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 62.1:173-191. DOI: 10.1215/00294527-2021-0007
\nWaismann\, Friedrich. 1977. Philosophical Papers\, ed. Brian McGuinness. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
\nWaismann\, Friedrich.1968. How I See Philosophy\, ed. Rom Harré\;. London: Macmillan.
\nWill\, Frederick L. 1974. Induction and Justification: An Investigation of Cartesian Procedure In the Philosophy of Knowledge. Ithaca\, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
\nWilliamson\, Timothy. 1994. Vagueness. London: Routledge
\nWilson\, Mark. 2006. Wandering Significance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
\nYablo\, Stephen. 2008. Thoughts: Papers on Mind\, Meaning\, and Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240815T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240815T234500 SUMMARY:Pragmatics: Current Developments in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics UID:20240319T102303Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Center for Logic\, Epistemology and History of Science (CLE) at The State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) invites submissions of articles for the special issue &ldquo\;Pragmatics: Current Developments in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics&rdquo\;\, to be published inManuscrito. The special issue provides an overview of recent developments and trends in pragmatic research and methodology. Papers should be written in English\, fit for blind review\, and should not exceed a maximum of 8500 words. The deadline for paper submission is August 15th\, 2024. More information about the special series and the submission process can be found below.
\n\nGuest Editors \;
\nEduarda Calado Barbosa &ndash\; CLE\, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
\necalado@unicamp.br \;
\nChris Genovesi &mdash\; Psycholinguistics and Cognition Lab\, Department of Psychology\, Concordia University
\ngenovesi.c@gmail.com \;
\n\nSpecial Series Description \;
\nPragmatics can be defined in many ways: the study of utterances\; aspects of meaning that go beyond truth-conditional semantics\; language as action\, etc. Following insights from influential 20th century philosophers\, like J.L. Austin\, H.P. Grice and Robert Stalnaker\, investigation in pragmatics has devoted much attention to speech acts\, common ground\, and context sensitivity. In the last few decades\, pragmatic research has been considering new ways to approach such foundational issues. At the same time\, the field is applying and developing the conceptual tools of pragmatics to address issues such as intercultural communication\, communicative injustice and harm. \;
\nThe issue aims to bring together contributions that shed light on current debates and themes\, and how they relate to other areas of language science\, including semantics\, psychology\, sociolinguistics\, etc. Although we welcome contributions from all areas of pragmatic research\, we are particularly interested in receiving contributions on the following themes: \;
\nRevisiting foundational issues
\nContext sensitive expressions
\nTruth\, reference\, meaning
\nCommon ground
\nPresupposition
\nFigurative uses of language\, indirect speech
\nCommunicative injustice and harm
\nSilencing and manipulation
\nSlurs\, expressives\, epithets
\nCounterspeech
\nCommunication and cooperation
\nJoint activity
\nCommunication breakdown
\nIntercultural pragmatics \;
\nApproaches to Pragmatics
\nRelevance Theory\, Critical Pragmatics
\nMinimalism\, situationalism\, contextualism
\nTruth-Conditional Semantics/Pragmatics \;
\nConfirmed contributors:  \;
\nLeonard Clapp (Northern Illinois University) \;
\nEros Corazza (ILCLI-UPV)
\nLaura Delgado (University of Lisbon)
\nEduardo Garcia-Ramirez (UBA-IIF/SADAF/CONICET)
\nNicolá\;s LoGuercio (UBA-IIF/SADAF/CONICET)
\nErnesto Perini-Santos (UFMG)
\nClaudia Picazo Jaque (UNED)
\n\nSubmission guidelines \;
\nWe accept submissions of full papers. The deadline for submissions is August 15th\, 2024. Papers should be written in English and respect a maximum of 8500 words (including footnotes and references)\, a short abstract (200 word maximum)\, and four to six keywords separated by semicolons. Submissions must be suitable for blind review. Papers are to be submitted online through the Manuscrito system\, foundhere. \;
\nPlease direct queries to one of the guest editors: Eduarda Calado Barbosa @ecalado@unicamp.bror Chris Genovesi @ genovesi.c@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20240826T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20240828T170000 SUMMARY:PLM7 - 7th Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference UID:20240319T102304Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Náměstí Jana Palacha\, Praha\, Czech Republic\, 11000 DESCRIPTION:1st Call for Papers
\nThe Seventh Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference (PLM7) will take place in Prague on 26&ndash\;28 August 2024. The plenary speakers for PLM7 are:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Sabrina Coninx (VU Amsterdam)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marie Guillot (University of Essex)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Jessica Pepp (University of Uppsala)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Krzysztof Posłajko (Jagiellonian University\, Cracow)
\nWe invite abstract submissions for 30-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion in a 40-minute slot) in the areas of:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; philosophy of language (broadly construed\, including philosophical logic and philosophy of linguistics)\, and
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; philosophy of mind (including philosophy of psychology and philosophy of cognitive science).
\nAbstracts should contain original research that\, at the time of submission\, has neither been published nor accepted for publication. One person can submit at most one abstract as sole author and one abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts). Some abstracts may be accepted for poster presentation.
\n
Abstracts should be anonymous\, should not exceed 1000 words (including the references)\, and must be submitted via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.org/plm2024/.
Submission opens: 1 December 2023
Submission closes: 29 February 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2024
Selection of abstracts will be carried out by the PLM board:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Derek Ball (Arché\;\, St. Andrews)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Corine Besson (Institute of Philosophy\, London)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Paul Dekker (ILLC\, University of Amsterdam)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Manuel Garcí\;a-Carpintero (LOGOS\, University of Barcelona)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Christopher Gauker (Department of Philosophy (KGW)\, University of Salzburg)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Kathrin Glü\;er-Pagin (CLLAM\, Department of Philosophy\, Stockholm University)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ferenc Huoranszki (Department of Philosophy\, CEU\, Vienna)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Max Kö\;lbel (Department of Philosophy\, University of Vienna)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Tomá\;&scaron\; Marvan (Department of Analytic Philosophy\, Czech Academy of Sciences)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Joanna Odrowaz-Sypniewska (Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Warsaw)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marí\;a de Ponte (ILCLI\, University of the Basque Country\, San Sebastian)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Franç\;ois Ré\;canati (Institut Jean Nicod\, Paris)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Pedro Santos (LanCog\, University of Lisbon)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Markus Werning (Institut fü\;r Philosophie II\, Ruhr University Bochum)
\n
Selected papers from five previous PLM conferences have been published in special issues of Synthese and Review of Philosophy and Psychology. A similar special issue with selected papers is intended for PLM7.
PLM7 is organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
\nVenue: building of the Faculty of Arts\, Charles University (ná\;m. J. Palacha 1/2\, Prague 1\, Czechia)
\nConference website: plm7.auletris.com
\nLocal organizing committee: Tomá\;&scaron\; Marvan\, Tomá\;&scaron\; Koblí\;žek\, Ví\;t Gvoždiak\, Jakub Mihá\;lik\, Vladimí\;r Havlí\;k\, Martin Zach\, Veronika Lorencová\;
\nFor any inquiries\, please contact: \;7plm2024@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Tomas Marvan;CN="Vít Gvoždiak";CN="Jakub Mihálik";CN=Tomas Koblizek;CN=Martin Zach: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240902T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240906T170000 SUMMARY:Jerzy Pelc and Polish Semiotics (at 16th World Congress of Semiotics) UID:20240319T102305Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Krakowskie Przedmiescie\, Uniwersytet Warszawski\, Warsaw\, Poland DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the Polish Semiotic Society and the organizers of the 16th World Congress of Semiotics (held under the auspices of The International Association for Semiotic Studies) that will take place in Warsaw 2-6 September 2024\, we invite you to submit abstracts for the panel dedicated to Polish semiotics\, with a special focus on the legacy of Jerzy Pelc and the issues addressed in his works. This year's World Congress of Semiotics is themed "Signs and Realities\," in reference to the title of the research project led by Jerzy Pelc for many years. The year 2024 marks the centenary of Jerzy Pelc's birth\, providing a good opportunity to commemorate his achievements. In his research\, Jerzy Pelc continued the philosophical traditions of the Lvov-Warsaw School\, especially its three representatives: Tadeusz Kotarbiński\, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz\, and Władysław Tatarkiewicz. Hence\, the proposal for a broader examination of the Professor's legacy\, its sources\, and its environment\, from both Polish and international perspectives\, which may (but not necessarily) include the following thematic threads:
\n\n- Theories of signs in Polish semiotics (Pelc\, Koj)\,
\n- Theories of meaning in Polish semiotics and philosophy of language (Twardowski\, Ajdukiewicz)\,
\n- History of Polish semiotics and philosophy of language (from the Lvov-Warsaw School to the present day)\,
\n- Approaches to fiction in Polish semiotics (Ingarden\, Pelc\, Paśniczek)\,
\n- Functional approach to semiotics and philosophy of natural language\,
\n- Occasionalness and contextual dependence in Polish semiotics (Kotarbińska\, Dąmbska\, Koj\, Pelc)\,
\n- Polish logical semiotics (Łukasiewicz\, Ajdukiewicz\, Tarski\, Hiż\, Suszko\, Zabłudowski\, Stanosz\, Nowaczyk\, Przełęcki\, Omyła\, Tokarz)\,
\n- Truth and meaning\,
\n- Logic and natural language (Stanosz\, Nowaczyk)\,
\n- Aesthetics and semiotics.
\n\nThe languages of the congress are English\, French\, Spanish\, and Polish. Abstracts should be submitted via the congress website by March 31st: https://www.semcon2024.com/submissions
ORGANIZER;CN=Filip Kawczynski;CN=Tadeusz Ciecierski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240915T170000 SUMMARY:Social Justice through Counter Speech\, Deplatforming\, and Silencing UID:20240319T102306Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:72 N Oval Mall\, Columbus\, United States DESCRIPTION:ften\, people&rsquo\;s words are harmful. Potential examples include: a classmate appealing to racist stereotypes in a class discussion\, a politician tweeting misogynistic rhetoric on family organization\, and an invited speaker promoting transphobic misinformation. When faced with harmful speech\, how should we respond? Is counterspeech efficacious\, or does it merely worsen the problem? When is protest permissible\, and against whom? Do companies have an obligation to &ldquo\;de-platform&rdquo\; or suspend the accounts of users spreading harmful speech? \;
\nWe are accepting abstracts from graduate students who have not yet received their degree at time of submission on these and related questions for our conference in Autumn 2024. OSU will offer modest travel stipends to accepted authors. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Ali Aenehzodaee;CN=Jacob MacDavid;CN=Layne Garrelts: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240916T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20240919T170000 SUMMARY:1st Baltic Workshop in the Philosophy of Language UID:20240319T102307Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Krynica Morska\, Poland DESCRIPTION:1st Baltic Workshop in the Philosophy of Language
\nKrynica Morska\, Poland
\nSeptember 16-19\, 2024
\nSubmission deadline: MAY 15\, 2024
\nNotification of acceptance: JUNE 1\, 2024
\nDeadline for paper drafts: SEPTEMBER 1\, 2024
\nTopics: philosophy of language\, philosophy of linguistics\, philosophical logic
\nOrganizers: Tadeusz Ciecierski\, Tomasz Puczyłowski and Dan Zeman
\nDescription
\nThe Baltic Workshop in the Philosophy of Language is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to showcase recent work on topics of interest in the current analytic philosophy of language. We welcome new theories from all fields of philosophy of language and of any aspects of language use\, as well as developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena. We welcome both theoretical and experimental approaches. There are no invited speakers at the workshop.
\nPractical matters
\nThe conference will be held in Krynica Morska at the Baltic Sea in Poland. We aim to cover accommodation for all participants as well as transportation by bus from Gdansk to Krynica Morska and back. We won't be able to cover other travel costs.
\nOrganizing committee
\nThe workshop is organized by Tadeusz Ciecierski (University of Warsaw)\, Tomasz Puczyłowski (University of Warsaw) and Dan Zeman (Slovak Academy of Sciences).
\nContact
\nAll questions about submissions should be emailed to taci@uw.edu.pl or danczeman@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Tadeusz Ciecierski;CN="Tomasz Puczyłowski";CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240918T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20240919T170000 SUMMARY:International Conference on Epistemic Injustice in Public Arguments UID:20240319T102308Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Colegio Almada Negreiros\, Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nInternational Conference on
\nEpistemic Injustice in Public Arguments
\nSeptember 18-19\, 2024
\nSubmission deadline: \;March 15\, 2024
\nWorkshop venue
Argumentation\, Cognition and Language Lab\, NOVA Institute of Philosophy\, NOVA University Lisbon\, Portugal
Keynote speakers
Miranda Fricker (New York University\, USA)
José\; Medina (Northwestern University\, USA)
Organisers
\nDima Mohammed\, Maria Grazia Rossi\, Federico Cella and Guido Tana \;
(ArgLab\, IFILNOVA\, NOVA University Lisbon)
Epistemic Injustice has been explored over the past 15 years\, in the two distinctive forms labeled by Miranda Fricker (2007) as testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice\, as well as in specific contexts such as in politics\, health\, education\, law\, etc. Scholars have described the specific harms caused by its systemic and structural manifestations in our contemporary societies and the potential strategies to resist the discrimination and oppression caused or reinforced by epistemic injustice. So much so that the epistemology of resistance (Medina 2012) is emerging as a fascinating new line of research.
\nWith this conference\, we are particularly interested in exploring the workings of epistemic injustice and the corresponding resistance strategies in public arguments from different contexts\, considering power dynamics in relation to institutions\, communication systems\, and groups and individuals. We aim to explore how public arguments may be strategically constructed to foster or consolidate different forms of epistemic injustice or\, on the contrary\, to curb and resist this phenomenon.
\nWe invite submissions exploring epistemic injustice and resistance in public arguments from any discipline (such as philosophy\, argumentation\, epistemology\, communication\, education\, social sciences\, etc.)\, taking into account various conceptual and discourse analysis methods (including argumentative analysis\, linguistic analysis\, cognitive analysis) and different contexts (politics\, health\, education\, the law\, etc.).
\nPossible topics include but are not limited to \;
\nSubmission guidelines
\nAbstracts (250-400 words\, title and reference excluded\, ready for blind reviewing)\, should be sent to epistemicinjustice[at]fcsh[dot]unl[dot]pt> by Friday\, March 15\, 2024. In the body of the email\, please include the author&rsquo\;s name\, affiliation and the title of the paper.
\nNotification of acceptance will be sent by April 15\, 2024. \;
\nFor any further questions\, please do not hesitate to get in touch with \;us \;at \;epistemicinjustice[at]fcsh[dot]unl[dot]pt
\nThe organisers:
\nDima Mohammed\, Maria Grazia Rossi\, Federico Cella and Guido Tana \;
(ArgLab\, IFILNOVA\, NOVA University Lisbon)
The Third Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association will take place at UMass Amherst on September 20-21\, 2024. The goal of the conference\, and of the association\, is to provide a venue for philosophers of language to discuss new work in all areas of the field.
ORGANIZER;CN=Guillermo Del Pinal;CN=Eliot Michaelson;CN=Alex Radulescu;CN=Katherine Ritchie;CN=Una Stojnic;CN=Emanuel Viebahn;CN=Julia Zakkou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20240927T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20240928T170000 SUMMARY:LLMs and Philosophy UID:20240319T102310Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Asia/Tokyo LOCATION:Kanazawa-shi\, Japan DESCRIPTION:" LLMs and Philosophy " is an international conference dedicated to exploring the profound connections between studies of language\, developments of large language models (LLMs)\, and philosophical inquiries. This interdisciplinary event seeks to bring together experts\, scholars\, and enthusiasts from various fields such as machine learning\, artificial intelligence\, linguistics\, philosophy\, and cognitive science to delve into the complexities and implications of language models in understanding human language\, communication\, and mind\, as well as ethical considerations in the digital age.
\nConference Description
\nIn recent years\, the advancement of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized our approach to processing and generating human language\, offering unprecedented opportunities for enhancing communication\, creativity\, and problem-solving. However\, this technological leap also poses significant philosophical questions regarding the nature of language\, the human mind\, and the ethical implications of artificial intelligence. This conference aims to foster a deep and multifaceted discussion on these topics\, encouraging a synthesis of ideas from both technical and philosophical domains.
\nObjectives:
\n- Exploring the Foundations: Examine the underlying principles of language and its representation in LLMs\, focusing on semantics\, syntax\, and philosophy of language.
\n- Linguistic\, Cognitive\, and Ethical Implications: Investigate the cognitive aspects of language understanding and generation by LLMs\, and their implications for human language\, cognition\, and ethics in AI.
\n- Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Bring together researchers in machine learning\, AI\, linguistics\, and various fields of philosophy to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue.
\nKey Topics:
\n- Philosophy of Language\, X-Phi\, and LLMs: Can philosophy of language learn from LLMs? For example\, if the truth-value judgments of one LLM about an utterance in fictional scenarios largely reflect people&rsquo\;s intuitions\, can we use the judgments as evidence? Alternatively\, if they deviate from people&rsquo\;s intuitions\, can we learn some lessons from such data\, say about what is said\, given that the LLM has been trained on huge data sets of people&rsquo\;s linguistic uses? Or\, if such a deviation is or becomes rare\, can we use LLMs to spare empirical studies in experimental philosophy in general?
\n- Multilingual LLMs and the Problem of Linguistic Diversity in Philosophy: Philosophical concepts seem to suffer from linguistic diversity\, since\, if a philosophical concept is captured differently in different languages with even some gap in extension\, this &ldquo\;disagreement&rdquo\; (if it is a disagreement at all) seems hard to be settled. If so\, philosophical discussions would be language-specific there. On the other hand\, multilingual LLMs are often said to have developed a language-neutral concept.
\n- Multimodal LLMs and Theory of Meaning: It has often been claimed that AI suffers from what is called the symbol grounding problem. However\, contemporary AIs based on deep learning such as LLMs have directly learned people&rsquo\;s actual uses of words in large corpora. The impressive linguistic performance of LLMs therefore seems to have already solved the problem\, because of the causal connection with the external world through actual human uses of linguistic expressions\, as long as the human users of languages are interacting with the external world. One might still argue that such LLMs only have translational semantics. But if so\, do recent multimodal LLMs solve this problem and have referential semantics? Or do AIs need to have a body to understand and mean anything by words?
\n- LLMs and the Nature of Linguistic Competence: One might think that recent LLMs have already achieved the quality of linguistic performance to qualify as being said to have linguistic competence. However\, some linguists\, as well as philosophers of mind and language\, may still claim that what is implemented in LLMs cannot be called linguistic competence. If so\, for what reason? Or can &ldquo\;linguistic competence&rdquo\; be considered to be multiply realizable\, whether in the human brain or in AI?
\n- LLMs and Ethical Challenges: \;The widespread adoption of LLMs presents various social\, political\, and ethical challenges that demand philosophers&rsquo\; attention. Some of the questions include: is it feasible to deploy LLMs in a fair manner\, free from biases\, particularly against groups underrepresented in training datasets? What should we make of the increasing reliance on LLM outputs for individual and political decision-making with respect to human agency? Does the integration of LLMs in decision-making processes diminish human autonomy? What are ethically appropriate relations between humans and artificial agents? Is it morally acceptable to mistreat artificial agents\, given their non-human status?
\nCall for Papers:
\nThis conference is a unique opportunity to contribute to a critical and evolving conversation at the intersection of machine learning\, linguistics\, and philosophy. We look forward to welcoming you to a stimulating and insightful event that promises to deepen our understanding of the digital and cognitive landscapes shaping our world.
\nIf you are interested\, please provide the title and abstract (up to 500 words) of your talk through the following link:
\nhttps://forms.gle/Vj2tVG9ChxEHSLyr7
\nUpcoming Schedule:
\nAbstract submission deadline: May 31\, 2024
\nNotification of results: by the end of June\, 2024
ORGANIZER;CN=Masaharu Mizumoto;CN=Yu Izumi;CN=Le Minh Nguyen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240927T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20240928T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop on Truth\, Definability and Quantification into Sentence Position UID:20240319T102311Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Can truth be defined? Frege argued that it couldn't. Ramsey argued that defining it would be easy if only we had an analysis of judgement. Today Horwich claims that truth cannot be defined explicitly because doing so would require quantification into sentence position and such quantification is not coherent. Instead he proposes a &ldquo\;minimal theory&rdquo\; of truth\, which comprises all the unproblematic instances of the equivalence schema. Künne\, by contrast\, argues that quantification into sentence position is coherent and may actually be part of some natural languages. Künne uses such quantification to define truth explicitly:
&forall\;x (x is true iff &exist\;p ((x is the proposition that p) &\; p)). Or in English: a representation (belief\, assertion etc) is true just if things are as it represents them as being. Künne claims also to find this definition in Frank Ramsey&rsquo\;s posthumous work\, which\, as an exegetical claim\, is not uncontroversial.
Is truth definable? Is propositional quantification coherent? Do natural languages involve propositional quantification\, and in what sense? What do the answers to these questions mean for philosophical attempts to define or explain truth? Is truth redundant if explicitly definable? Not redundant if not explicitly definable?
\nThis workshop is supported by the FWF Cluster of Excellence project "Knowledge in Crisis"\, the FWF project "Truth is Grounded in Facts" and the University of Vienna.
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Kölbel";CN=Julio De Rizzo;CN=Benjamin Schnieder: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241001T170000 SUMMARY:Jason Stanley: The Politics of Language - 1st Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society UID:20240319T102312Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse\, Dortmund\, Germany\, 44137 DESCRIPTION:Jason Stanley: The Politics of Language
\nThe Department of Philosophy and Political Science at TU Dortmund University is delighted to announce the 1st Dortmund 'Philosophy and Society' Conference\, taking place on October 1st\, 2024\, in Dortmund\, Germany. This inaugural event will feature Jason Stanley\, co-author of "The Politics of Language" (Princeton University Press\, 2023)\, as a distinguished guest.
\nConference Theme
\nThis year's conference centers on David Beaver and Jason Stanley&rsquo\;s "The Politics of Language." The book offers a novel account of how speech impacts audiences. On Beaver and Stanley&rsquo\;s account\, linguistic actions exemplify social practices and have so-called resonances (emotions\, social identities\, etc.)\, which carry ideological significance. Their analysis focuses specifically on more covert ways in which speech can inflict harm on groups.
\nCall for Contributions
\nWe invite presentations on any aspect of Beaver and Stanley's book\, with potential topics including\, but not limited to:
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nRegistration and Additional Information
\nAccommodation and travel expenses for speakers will be borne by the organizers. For registration details\, conference program\, and additional information\, please visit our website or contact the organizing committee at peter.koenigs@tu-dortmund.de.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katja Crone;CN=Max Gab;CN="Peter Königs": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240319T102211Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:29990101T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:29990201T120000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Creativity and Improvisation in Thought\, Practice\, and Mind: An Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20240319T102313Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, United States\, 68182 DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has officially been postponed. More information will be made available asap in the near future*
\nMany human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised. \; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:
\n- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?
\n- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?
\n- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?
\n- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?
\n- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?
\n- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.
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