On Getting It Right

We are pleased to announce the workshop On Getting It Right, taking place at the Department of Philosophy at Lund University on June 12th - 13th, 2026. The theme of the conference has its origin in a dispute where Bernard Williams accuses Richard Rorty of failing to respect that, in philosophy, there must be something that counts as getting it right. The central question of the workshop is: what does it mean to get it right in philosophy? Or, more specifically, what can count as getting it right if we take worries about anti-foundationalism and the contingency of our concepts seriously? Of course, these worries might turn out to be misguided or not provide any obstacle to making sense of what it is to get things right.

The workshop aims to shed light on these questions by bringing together a variety of perspectives, such as pragmatism, conceptual ethics, and a broadly post-Wittgensteinian tradition, as well as views more critical to the underlying assumption that our concepts are sufficiently contingent for there to be any serious worry about what it can mean to get it right.

Confirmed speakers are:

Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College)

David Owens (University of Oxford)

Matthieu Queloz (University of Bern)

Sophie Grace Chapell (The Open University)

Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Academy)

Anton Emilsson (KU Leuven)

Niklas Dahl (Lund University)

An exact schedule with titles of the talks will be distributed once the event draws closer.

Additional guests are more than welcome to attend, but we ask that you fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/qBu2aYrMzzECosHJ9

We will, however, not be able to cover dinner and lunch costs for non-invited participants and cannot guarantee that there will be space at the conference dinners.

Hope to see many of you there!

The organisers, Niklas Dahl, Anton Emilsson, and Elsa Magnell.