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Functions and functional roles of concepts

May 28, 2025 - May 30, 2025

Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa

Room B112.D
Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon
Portugal

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

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John Cantwell

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Joshua Gert

College of William and Mary

Luca Incurvati

University of Amsterdam

Huw Price

Cambridge University (PhD)

Amie Thomasson

Dartmouth College

Organisers:

Arvid Båve

University of Lisbon

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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 [email protected]. 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