Functions and functional roles of concepts

Functions and functional roles of words/concepts, University of Lisbon 28-30 May 2025

The LanCog group at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL) welcomes abstract submissions and participation at a workshop aiming to gather philosophers interested in non-representational semantic theories (like inferentialism) and non-representational functions of concepts.  

The latter have been proposed by Ramsey (universal quantifications as inference tickets), Sellars (on counterfactuals), Hare (on normative terms), Quine (on the truth-predicate), and many others, and has attracted renewed attention with Amie Thomasson's recent work on "linguistic functions". Abstracts with naturalistically-minded ideas on these topics are particularly welcome.  

CFA: Submit an anonymized long abstract of 500-1000 words no later than 1 Feb 2025 to [TBA]. Decisions will have been made by 1 March. For those unable to obtain funds for travel, CFUL will try its best to secure financial aid.  

Invited speakers:

Amie Thomasson

Huw Price

John Cantwell

Joshua Gert

Julian Schlöder

Luca Incurvati

Matthew Chrisman