Fiction, Literature and Beyond

May 2, 2023 - May 4, 2023
University of Barcelona, LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy

Sala de Juntes (& Online)
Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona 08001
Spain

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

This event is available both online and in-person

Sponsor(s):

  • Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy

Speakers:

Universidad de Murcia
Institut Jean Nicod
(unaffiliated)
Trinity University
Open University (UK)

Organisers:

Universitat de Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
Università degli Studi di Genova

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Barcelona Workshop 12

FICTION, LITERATURE AND BEYOND

LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona, 2–4 May 2023 (and online)

The Barcelona Workshop has been the signature event of the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy for over 20 years. It is a small-format conference, with no parallel sessions, that aims to provide ample space for discussion among participants.

PROGRAMME


Tuesday - 2 May 2023

 

Chair: Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona)

 

10.00 Carola Barbero (Turin), “Lost in (Literature’s) Translation”

11.00 Julia Langkau (Geneva), “Life and Literary Fiction”



12.00 Coffee



12.30 Keynote: Susan Feagin (Temple), “Artistic Functionality”




13.30 Lunch break


Chair: Carlota Serrahima (Barcelona)

 

15.30 Bruno Leclercq & Louis Rouillé (Liège), “When Fictive Objects Are Visualized: A Challenge for Descriptive Theories”

16.30 Merel Semeijn (Institut Nicod), “Common Belief and Make-Believe”

17.30 Elisa Paganini (Milan), “Fiction as Non-assertive Communication”

 

Wednesday – 3 May 2023

 

Chair: Daniel Gregory (Barcelona)



9.30 Keynote: Andrew Kania (Trinity), “The Meaning of Musical Works and Its Relation to Their Authentic Performance” (online)

10.30 Patrick Keating (Trinity), “Light and Time in the Hollywood Film Noir”



11.30 Coffee


Chair: Anaïs Giannuzzo (Geneva)

 

12.00 Mario Slugan (Queen Mary), “Potential Mechanisms Behind the Hypothesis That Fiction Influences Real-Life Beliefs” (online)



13.00 Keynote: María José Àlcaraz León (Murcia), “Autofiction in Film and Theatre”



14.00 Lunch break


Chair: Ryan Doran (Barcelona/Cambridge)


15.30 Amber Ross (Florida), “Silent Narratives—Searching for the Fundamentals of Narratives Beneath Their Linguistic Form”

16.30 Dana LaCourse Munteanu (Ohio State), “Affects for Shock or for Prosocial Behavior? What Journalists Can Learn From Aristotle and Novelists” (online)

17.30 Vanessa Brassey (King’s College London), “The Pictorial Narrator”



Thursday – 4 May 2023

 

Chair: Patrick Connolly (Barcelona)

 

10.00 Sean Clancy (East China Normal), “Imaginative Resistance as a Methodological Hazard”

11.00 Chiara Brozzo (Birmingham), “On the Proper Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Design”



12.00 Coffee



12.30 Keynote: Jérôme Dokic (Institut Nicod), “Disinterestedness and the Sublime”


13.30 Lunch break


Chair: Teresa Marques (Barcelona)



15.30 Jacopo Frascaroli (York), “Engineers of the Human Soul: The Moral Responsibility of Artists and Designers”



16.30 Keynote: Derek Matravers (Open), “On the Confusion Between Being a Representation and Being a Fictional Representation”



ACCESSIBILITY

The conference will be held at the University of Barcelona, in Barcelona (Spain), as well as online. The in-person conference venue will be wheelchair-accessible and wheelchair-accessible facilities will be available. Service animals are welcome. We regret not being able to offer nearby disabled parking or a hearing loop. Upon request, however, we can use microphones and provide a quiet room. More generally, we will do our best to improve accessibility, both online and in-person, including for caregivers, and we encourage you to check the relevant boxes on the registration form to discuss how we can do so.

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