The workshop \;Acquaintance\, Familiarity &\; Value \;will take \;place at the \;University of Barcelona \;&\; University Pompeu Fabra \;on \;November 6-7th\, 2025. \;
\nWe will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the &ldquo\;acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language. The use of aesthetic language to describe an object (e.g.\, predicates of personal taste\, aesthetic adjectives\, subjective attitude verbs) invites the inference that the speaker has \;first-hand acquaintance \;with that object. E.g.\, if I tell you that \;In a Roman Osteria \;is a wonderful painting\, you are likely to assume that I have seen \;In a Roman Osteria. This seemingly trivial observation has intrigued linguists\, aestheticians\, and philosophers of language\, especially in the last 10+ years (Pearson 2013\, Ninan 2014\, Franzé\;n 2018\, Anand &\; Korotkova 2018\, Khoo 2024). Recently\, researchers have turned their attention to other phenomena with similar features\, e.g.\, the "practical opinionatedness" inference of moral predicates (Willer &\; Kennedy 2020)\, the familiarity inference triggered by verbs like &lsquo\;consider&rsquo\; (Kennedy &\; Willer 2022)\, or acquaintance inferences triggered by other expressions\, e.g. appearance predicates (Rudolph 2020).
\nPROGRAM:
\nDAY 1: Seminari de Filosofia (Room 4100)\, Facultat de Filosofia\, University of Barcelona
\n10:30-10:45: Welcome
\n10:45-11:30: Nate Charlow \;(University of Toronto): \;Against Indeterminacy-Based Theories of Acquaintance
\n11:30-12:00 Coffee break offered by UB
\n12:00-12:45: Suchitra Srivastava \;(University of Burdwan): Emotionally Marked Acquaintance: Affective Authority and the Politics of First-Handness (online)
\n14:45-15:30: Nicolá\;s Lo Guercio \;(CONICET-IFF): \;The acquaintance inference: the epistemic view revisited
\n15:30-16:15: Noa Buckle \;(University of Toronto): \;Failing to Find (online)
\n16:15-16:45 Coffee break offered by UB
\n16:45-18:00: Natasha Korotkova \;(Utrecht University): \;Refining "find": Experience\, factivity\, categorical judgment
\nDAY 2: Room 52.121\, Roc Boronat Building\, Poblenou \;Campus\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
\n10:45-11:30: Elin McCready \;(ICREA-UAB): \;Somatic Acquaintance
\n11:30-12:00 Coffee break offered by UPF
\n12:00-12:45: Jiayi Zhou \;(University of Connecticut): \;A Scale of Acquaintance Inferences in Mandarin Intensifiers
\n14:45-15:30: Natalia Karczewska \;(Warsaw Univerisity): Acquaintance as a norm for evaluative speech acts
\n15:30-16:15: Samuel Cantor \;(UT Austin): Evidentially expressive adjectives
\n16:45-18:00: Nils Franzé\;n \;(Umeå\; \;University): On the experience requirement of certain mental states
\nProgram chair &\; organization: \;
\nAndré\;s Soria Ruiz \;(Universitat de Barcelona)
\nLocal organization
\nAndré\;s Soria Ruiz\, Teresa Marques\, Lucí\;a Gonzá\;lez Arias (U. Barcelona)
\nIsidora Stojanovic\, \;Morgan Moyer\, Michelle Stankovic (U. Pompeu Fabra)
\nAdvisory board:
\nTeresa Marques \;(Universitat de \;Barcelona)
\nIsidora Stojanovic \;(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
\nThis workshop is generously funded by \;ERC Advanced Grant 'Valence Asymmetries: the positive\, the negative\, the good and the bad in language\, mind and morality' (GA nº\; 101142133)\, \;research project 'New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations' (PID2023-150569NB-I00)\, the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona.
\nAll enquiries should be addressed at \;asoriaruiz@ub.edu.
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