Abstract:
\n\n\n\nConversational Diagnostic Artificial Intelligence promises to reduce opacity in medical AI by producing explanations that resemble human clinical reasoning. This presentation argues\, however\, that this promise gives rise to a trust&ndash\;alignment divide. AI-generated chains of thought can be highly persuasive\, making recommendations appear coherent and worthy of trust\, while remaining only weakly faithful to the processes that produced them. This divergence matters because\, as evidence shows\, users are more likely to rely on systems that can articulate reasons\, even when those reasons do not reliably disclose the basis of the recommendation. The presentation argues that the persuasiveness&ndash\;faithfulness gap is not merely a contingent failure of current systems\, but partly reflects the autoregressive and probabilistic architecture of large language models\, which generates reasons through the same sequence-based mechanisms that generate outputs. In clinical settings\, this creates the distinctive risk that persuasive but unfaithful explanations may reinforce automation bias by making reliance on AI appear not only convenient\, but epistemically justified. The challenge for explainable medical AI is therefore not simply to produce more fluent and human-like explanations\, but to distinguish explanations that merely elicit trust from explanations that can genuinely justify it.
\n \;\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Claudio Fabbroni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T160000 SUMMARY:The Sounds of Affect UID:20261009T233522Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home)\, an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs\, pejoratives\, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages\, invites you to the first talk of the 2026-2027 academic year to be given by Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University)\, entitled "The Sounds of Affect". \;The event will take place online on Monday\, OCTOBER 12\, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET)\, and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (program here: https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate\, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Below you can find the abstract of the talk.
\nAll welcome!
\nABSTRACT:
\nThe empirical goal of this talk is to explore the use of a set of emotive expressions in Spanish\, namely ah\, ay\, oh\, oy\, uh\, and uy. These expressions have been previously described as indicating both unexpectedness of an event (ah\, oh\, uh) as well as a subjective evaluation of the unexpected event (ay\, oy\, uy\; Montes 1999). Thus\, these forms encode both epistemic and affective content\, a defining property of emotive markers cross-linguistically. My analytical goal is to present an analysis of the form\, function and distribution of these markers. I argue that they belong to a set of categories that belong to the grammar of interaction (Wiltschko 2021). Specifically\, I analyze them as speaker oriented pro-forms which indicate the note-worthiness of the event\, object\, or utterance that triggered the utterance (Wiltschko 2024). This accounts for their epistemic content. As for their affective content\, I propose that it derives from the vowel-quality and hence is best analysed as an articulatory gesture with ideophonic meaning (Thompson &\; Do 2019). Specifically\, ah\, oh\, uh are associated with increasing noteworthiness (ah being neutral and uh being highest on the note-worthiness scale\, Montes 1999). This increase in noteworthiness is mirrored by the increase in effort in producing these vowels\, both in terms of tongue position and lip rounding. As for the subjective evaluation\, I argue that it\, too\, is ideophonically expressed through the glide\, which is produced by an inward movement of the articulators which in turn mirrors the inward character of a subjective evaluation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261013T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (OASIS 6) UID:20261009T233523Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguí\;stica da Universidade de Lisboa\, 13-16 October\, 2026.
\nThe OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics\, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building blocks get combined? 3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions? For more information\, see the OASIS credo.
\nWe welcome submissions from semantics and semantics-adjacent domains\, including philosophy and the cognitive sciences. We will host sessions bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss foundational questions in linguistics and their relation to broader philosophical issues. The sessions will introduce some of the central assumptions and frameworks of contemporary linguistic theory and provide informal opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. Philosophers and others interested in language\, mind\, or cognition are particularly encouraged to attend.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSatellite session: Creoles as windows on language and cognition This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole formation\, those contexts involve language contact and innovation through complex processes of language acquisition\, therefore providing a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.
\nAbstract submission:
\nAbstracts are due on May 15\, 2026. Submission will be via the conference Open Review page. Authors should be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles in the Call for Papers:
\nIf you are submitting for the satellite workshop\, please indicate this by including &ldquo\;[for satellite workshop]&rdquo\; under the title of your abstract.
\nAbstracts must be anonymous\, in pdf format\, 2 A4 pages\, in a font size no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be single author on only one.
\nLinguists and any others submitting very technical research: It is absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean eschewing all formalism\, but do pitch your abstract so that a non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.
\nImportant dates:
\nContact: oasis6lisboa@letras.ulisboa.pt
\nMeeting URL: https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-6
\nOrganizing Committee:
\nMotivation: \;
\nRecent advances in artificial intelligence&mdash\;especially large language models&mdash\;have renewed foundational philosophical questions about language\, inference\, and knowledge. These systems produce linguistically well-formed outputs and display patterns of reasoning\, yet their epistemic and semantic status remains unclear. Are we witnessing new forms of linguistic agency\, or merely sophisticated statistical artifacts? And what kinds of logical and formal tools are adequate to capture their behavior?
This workshop aims to bring together perspectives from logic\, linguistics\, and philosophy to address these questions. \;
This call for papers invites contributions to the Special Issue &ldquo\;Beyond Diagnostic Boundaries: Mentalizing\, Theory of Mind\, and Cognitive Heterogeneity in Neurodevelopmental Conditions\,&rdquo\; to be published in Reti\, saperi\, linguaggi &ndash\; Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences\, a prestigious international peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science&ndash\;ESCI.
\nThe Special Issue will explore mentalizing and Theory of Mind across neurodevelopmental conditions\, with particular attention to cognitive heterogeneity within and across diagnostic categories. We welcome empirical\, theoretical\, methodological\, and review contributions addressing topics such as autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions\, individual differences in social cognition\, language and interaction\, embodied and ecological approaches to mentalizing\, and innovative assessment methods.
\nResearchers interested in contributing should send a provisional title and a 300&ndash\;400-word abstract to paola.pennisi@unime.it by 18 October 2026. Preliminary decisions will be communicated by 2 November 2026. The deadline for full manuscripts is 30 May 2027\, with publication expected in July 2027.
\nManuscripts in English are especially encouraged. There are no submission or publication fees.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T183000 SUMMARY:Online Inner Speech Colloquium - Kasia Jaszczolt UID:20261009T233526Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:For the last inner speech colloquium of the year\, we are delighted to have Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) as our speaker. She will be giving a talk titled: "Self-reference and pragmatic indexicals". Further information and the abstract can be found below. Please note that we will be starting half an hour later than usual\, at 17:00.
\n
Date &\; Time: 22-10-26\, 17:00-18:30 CEST
Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/345014069399153?p=RWDfS3OrNuOdEmFgGE \;
\n
Abstract
Indexicals are philosophers&rsquo\; fiction &ndash\; what counts as an indexical expression engenders interminable debates. It is well-documented that both indexicals and non-indexicals have indexical and non-indexical uses\; languages without pronouns have referential nouns whose essential semantic/pragmatic properties are\, arguably\, not categorically different from those of indexicals. I argue that this lack of a principled distinction calls for regarding indexicality as a functional category &ndash\; indexicals are not expressions but at most functions of expressions. I take on board the case of markers of first-person reference and demonstrate\, using some cross-linguistic evidence\, that a generalised perspective using such a functional category comes with an added advantage of being able to capture the facts that (i) different de se concepts warrant different links to the &lsquo\;self-file&rsquo\; and that (ii) the cognitive access to oneself is a gradable property &ndash\; the characteristics of self-reference that are critical for explicating self-talk.
\nIf you would like to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list\, please contact:jonida.kodra@uni-osnabrueck.de.
\nWe hope to see many of you there!
\nBest regards\,
\nJonida Kodra\, Daniel Mü\;ller and Mathijs Geurts (University of Osnabrü\;ck and Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonida Kodra;CN=Mathijs Geurts;CN="Daniel Lennart Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261025T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261025T230000 SUMMARY:Negative Social Action: Silence\, Salience\, and the Politics of Absence UID:20261009T233527Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Gabelsbergerstraße 62\, Munich\, Germany DESCRIPTION:DEADLINE for Abstract Submission: 25 October 2026
\nLanguage is the specifically human alternative to physical violence. As speaking animals\, human beings are capable of inflicting harm through words alone\, and this capacity has driven scholars across philosophy of language\, linguistics\, and related disciplines to investigate verbal violence and hate speech: if we can do things with our words\, then we can also do harm with them (Austin 1962\; Langton 1993\; Maitra and McGowan 2012\; Kukla 2014\; Bianchi 2018\; Langton 2018).
\nYet what is said is only part of the picture. What happens when harm is produced not by what is said\, but by what is left unsaid\, unanswered\, unnoticed\, or absent? Silence is commonly understood as the mere absence of speech\, a neutral gap in communication\, or simply the failure to act. However\, scholars across different disciplines have increasingly challenged this conception\, arguing that silence and related forms of communicative absence are active\, socially structured\, and consequential phenomena (Maitra 2007\; Langton 2007\; Kurzon 2011\; Schrö\;ter 2013\; Tanesini 2018\; Klieber 2024). Silence can communicate\, subordinate\, exclude\, and harm (Bird 2002\; Langton 2007\; Maitra 2009\; Klieber 2024)\; it can be strategically deployed to maintain ambiguity or plausible deniability (Anthonissen 2008\; Schrö\;ter 2013\, 2019\, 2022)\, or emerge from socially organised patterns of inattention that marginalise certain voices\, perspectives\, and experiences (Fricker 2007\; Dotson 2011\; Pohlhaus 2012\; Medina 2013\; Smith and Archer 2020).
\nThis workshop takes as its starting point two converging lines of inquiry. The first concerns silence as a communicative act: a socially embedded practice capable of conveying meaning\, performing social functions\, and shaping relations (Langton 2007\; Schrö\;ter 2013\; Tanesini 2018\; Klieber 2024). The second concerns what we call the politics of absence: the socially structured forms of inattention\, non-response\, and selective salience through which collective patterns of noticing and overlooking are produced and maintained (Watzl 2017\; Wu 2024\; Kaeslin 2024\; Caprioglio Panizza 2022).
\nBy bringing these perspectives into dialogue\, the workshop extends questions traditionally associated with philosophy of language and communication studies towards philosophy of mind\, ethics and moral philosophy\, and philosophy of perception. Taken together\, they point towards a broader theoretical framework centred on negative social action: socially significant actions performed not through explicit speech or overt intervention\, but through absences\, omissions\, silences\, failures of uptake\, and organised forms of non-attention.
\nWe want to investigate cases in which harm is produced through what remains unsaid\, unacknowledged\, unanswered\, unnoticed\, or excluded from personal and collective awareness. Such harm frequently operates indirectly and diffusely\, with a high degree of deniability (Maitra 2007\; Zerubavel 2006\; Saul 2018). Rather than treating silence and inattention as passive phenomena\, the workshop examines their role in producing social meanings\, epistemic environments\, political realities\, and forms of harm.
\nWe ask how absences communicate\, how they shape what becomes collectively visible or invisible\, and how responsibility should be understood when harms arise not from what someone does or says\, but from what is omitted\, neglected\, or left unnoticed (Ayala-Ló\;pez and Vasilyeva 2016\; Smith and Archer 2020). We also welcome empirical work examining how patterns of silence\, non-response\, and inattention shape collective responses to harmful speech\, including their effects on perceived social norms and the recognition of harm (Zapata et al. 2024).
\nMore information:
ORGANIZER;CN=Irene Lo Faro;CN=Jimena Zapata: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261026T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Paris School on Conditionals UID:20261009T233528Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:65 rue des Grands Moulins\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:Conditionals &ndash\; Theory\, Typology\, Diachrony and Corpora
\nINALCO\, 65 rue des Grands Moulins\, Paris 13\, France
\nOcotbre 26-30\, 2026
\nFor centuries\, philosophers and logicians have examined conditional constructions&mdash\;statements of the form &ldquo\;if A\, then B&rdquo\;&mdash\;in natural languages\, yielding numerous insights. However\, we still do not have a complete understanding of conditional constructions and their fundamental relationship to reasoning\, specifically the process of inferring B from A. Recently\, scholars from fields such as logic\, linguistics\, cognitive science\, corpora\, and artificial intelligence have begun to shed new light on this area of research.
\nWe are organizing a thematic school with a strong interdisciplinary focus centered on linguistics\, logic\, the role of diachrony in conditional constructions\, and corpus studies. Following three successful thematic schools in \;2019\, \;2022\, and \;2024\, the upcoming Conditionals school will take place at INALCO in Paris from October 26 to 30\, 2026.
\nWhile the school primarily aims to provide French researchers with the latest developments in the logical\, linguistic\, and cognitive aspects of conditional constructions\, it is also open to researchers from around the globe. All are cordially invited to join us! All participants will have the opportunity to present their research work during the poster sessions.
\nThe faculty will include prominent academics such as \;Hadil Karawani \;(Konstanz)\, \;Stefan Kaufmann (Connecticut)\, \;Dean McHugh \;(Edinburgh)\, \;Ezra la Roi \;(Ghent and Leuven)\, and \;Alex Reuneker (Leiden). This comprehensive five-day training program will promote the development and dissemination of research on conditional constructions. The event is financially supported by \;CNRS\, InIdex-EFL\, \;INALCO \;and \;PLIDAM.
\nContact person: Ghanshyam Sharma: paris.conditionals@gmail.com \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Ghanshyam Sharma: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261026T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261027T170000 SUMMARY:Innovation and tradition: intersections\, interactions and disputes in culture UID:20261009T233529Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Mexico_City LOCATION:Cuernavaca\, Mexico DESCRIPTION:This colloquium emerges from the need to think and propose new epistemological positions to the cultural frame. From an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective\, our aim is to bring together researchers from fields like sociology\, communication science\, Cultural Studies\, anthropology\, history\, computational sciences\, political science\, and others\, to explore critical \;reflections on cultural tradition and cultural innovation. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Omar Cerrillo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T090000 SUMMARY:Special Issue of Análisis Filosófico: “Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation” UID:20261009T233530Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nSpecial Issue of Aná\;lisis Filosó\;fico: &ldquo\;Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation&rdquo\;
\nThis special issue aims to collect original articles in Spanish and English devoted to the analysis of oppressive discourses within our argumentative practices\, with a particular emphasis on those commonly found in Latin American contexts. Informal logic\, epistemology\, and gender studies will serve as the central&mdash\;though not exclusive&mdash\;perspectives guiding this special issue.
\nWe may understand &ldquo\;oppressive discourse&rdquo\; as a speech act that harms a person or group\, whose consequences contribute to the perpetuation of their conditions of subordination. One way in which oppression manifests itself is by depriving such individuals or groups of credibility (and\, consequently\, of epistemic authority)\, thereby reproducing discriminatory forms of subordination. This (epistemic) form of oppression typically accounts for the silencing of certain marginalized groups. This special issue will place particular emphasis on analyzing these forms of oppression\, as well as the discursive and argumentative mechanisms that sustain them.
\nLanguage is a powerful force\, deeply intertwined with social practices and ways of life: harmful stereotypes about individuals or groups are forged and reinforced through discursive activities. Thus\, in order to prevent epistemic injustices\, it is necessary to intervene in the discursive domain of power by critically reflecting on its influence on credibility\, epistemic authority\, and the prejudices associated with epistemic agents\, as well as on the fallacies and argumentative errors committed by those who produce oppressive discourses. Informal logic\, epistemology\, and gender studies have much to contribute to this area\, and this issue seeks to highlight contributions from these philosophical fields by examining recurring forms of discussion and argumentation in cases and examples drawn from everyday life. As a final outcome\, this collection aims to show how philosophical argumentation can both help mitigate situations of epistemic injustice and contribute to identifying and dismantling harmful prejudices that promote discrimination.
\nSubmissions are invited on topics including\, but not limited to:
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Discursive silencing and epistemic exclusion in argumentative contexts
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Epistemic injustice in practices of debate and deliberation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Epistemic authority in argumentation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Fallacies and argumentative errors in oppressive discourses
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Relations between social power\, language\, and argumentation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical analysis of oppressive speech in Latin American contexts
\nSubmissions must be made through the Aná\;lisis Filosó\;fico website (https://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/about/submissions)\, following the author guidelines (https://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/guia-autores). When submitting the manuscript\, authors should include a note in the &ldquo\;Comments for the Editor&rdquo\; field indicating that the submission is intended for this special issue. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by external referees. The deadline for submissions is October 31\, 2026. For inquiries\, please contact:pyrosuarezcaro@gmail.com.
\nThe guest editorial team is composed of Pyro Suarez (lead editor)\, Pamela Lastres (editorial supervisor)\, and Luz Muñ\;oz (editorial assistant)\, all members of the research project &ldquo\;Silencing and Discourses of Oppression in Peru: Intersections between Informal Logic\, Epistemology\, and Gender Studies&rdquo\; at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Central New York Philosophy of Language Workshop UID:20261009T233531Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of Rochester\, Humanities Center Conference Room D\, Rochester\, United States DESCRIPTION:Schedule:
9:30 - 10:00am: Coffee and pastries
10:00 am - 11:15 am: Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University)\, &ldquo\;True Ideological Generics?"
\n11:30 am - 12:45 pm: Anni Sun (Cornell University)\, &ldquo\;Inheritance\, Alternative Sensitivity\, and the Semantics of &lsquo\;Ought&rsquo\;"
\n12:45 pm - 1:45 pm: Lunch
\n1:45 pm - 3:00 pm: Rohan Sud (Virginia Tech)\, &ldquo\;The Erotetic-Expressivist Theory of Vagueness"
\n3:15 pm - 4:30 pm: Seth Yalcin (University of California\, Berkeley)\, Keynote Talk \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Zeynep Soysal;CN=Jens Kipper;CN="Martín Abreu Zavaleta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T113000 SUMMARY:True Ideological Generics? UID:20261009T233532Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Rochester\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Zeynep Soysal;CN=Jens Kipper;CN="Martín Abreu Zavaleta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T130000 SUMMARY:Inheritance\, Alternative Sensitivity\, and the Semantics of ‘Ought’ UID:20261009T233533Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Rochester\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Zeynep Soysal;CN=Jens Kipper;CN="Martín Abreu Zavaleta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T151500 SUMMARY:The Erotetic-Expressivist Theory of Vagueness UID:20261009T233534Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Rochester\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Zeynep Soysal;CN=Jens Kipper;CN="Martín Abreu Zavaleta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261128T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261129T170000 SUMMARY:Anti-Democratic Communication UID:20261009T233535Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Waterloo\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Manipulative language has played a vital role in the rise of authoritarian regimes and the undermining of democracy worldwide. This topic will be the focus of a two-day networking workshop to be held at the University of Waterloo (November 28-29\, 2026)\, on Anti-Democratic Communication. \;The workshop is intended to be the founding event of an international network in social and political philosophy of language. \;In addition to keynotes\, there will also be 6 papers chosen from submissions to a CFA. \;Six travel bursaries of up to $1000 CAD are available for presenters of accepted papers. \;It will be followed by a special journal issue including papers from the workshop. \;
\nThe event is sponsored by SSHRC\, the University of Waterloo\, Brock University\, and the University of Toronto.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jennifer Saul: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261208T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261209T170000 SUMMARY:Negative Social Action: Silence\, Salience\, and the Politics of Absence UID:20261009T233536Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Gabelsbergerstraße 62\, Munich\, Germany DESCRIPTION:DEADLINE for Abstract Submission: 25 October 2026
\nLanguage is the specifically human alternative to physical violence. As speaking animals\, human beings are capable of inflicting harm through words alone\, and this capacity has driven scholars across philosophy of language\, linguistics\, and related disciplines to investigate verbal violence and hate speech: if we can do things with our words\, then we can also do harm with them (Austin 1962\; Langton 1993\; Maitra and McGowan 2012\; Kukla 2014\; Bianchi 2018\; Langton 2018).
\nYet what is said is only part of the picture. What happens when harm is produced not by what is said\, but by what is left unsaid\, unanswered\, unnoticed\, or absent? Silence is commonly understood as the mere absence of speech\, a neutral gap in communication\, or simply the failure to act. However\, scholars across different disciplines have increasingly challenged this conception\, arguing that silence and related forms of communicative absence are active\, socially structured\, and consequential phenomena (Maitra 2007\; Langton 2007\; Kurzon 2011\; Schrö\;ter 2013\; Tanesini 2018\; Klieber 2024). Silence can communicate\, subordinate\, exclude\, and harm (Bird 2002\; Langton 2007\; Maitra 2009\; Klieber 2024)\; it can be strategically deployed to maintain ambiguity or plausible deniability (Anthonissen 2008\; Schrö\;ter 2013\, 2019\, 2022)\, or emerge from socially organised patterns of inattention that marginalise certain voices\, perspectives\, and experiences (Fricker 2007\; Dotson 2011\; Pohlhaus 2012\; Medina 2013\; Smith and Archer 2020).
\nThis workshop takes as its starting point two converging lines of inquiry. The first concerns silence as a communicative act: a socially embedded practice capable of conveying meaning\, performing social functions\, and shaping relations (Langton 2007\; Schrö\;ter 2013\; Tanesini 2018\; Klieber 2024). The second concerns what we call the politics of absence: the socially structured forms of inattention\, non-response\, and selective salience through which collective patterns of noticing and overlooking are produced and maintained (Watzl 2017\; Wu 2024\; Kaeslin 2024\; Caprioglio Panizza 2022).
\nBy bringing these perspectives into dialogue\, the workshop extends questions traditionally associated with philosophy of language and communication studies towards philosophy of mind\, ethics and moral philosophy\, and philosophy of perception. Taken together\, they point towards a broader theoretical framework centred on negative social action: socially significant actions performed not through explicit speech or overt intervention\, but through absences\, omissions\, silences\, failures of uptake\, and organised forms of non-attention.
\nWe want to investigate cases in which harm is produced through what remains unsaid\, unacknowledged\, unanswered\, unnoticed\, or excluded from personal and collective awareness. Such harm frequently operates indirectly and diffusely\, with a high degree of deniability (Maitra 2007\; Zerubavel 2006\; Saul 2018). Rather than treating silence and inattention as passive phenomena\, the workshop examines their role in producing social meanings\, epistemic environments\, political realities\, and forms of harm.
\nWe ask how absences communicate\, how they shape what becomes collectively visible or invisible\, and how responsibility should be understood when harms arise not from what someone does or says\, but from what is omitted\, neglected\, or left unnoticed (Ayala-Ló\;pez and Vasilyeva 2016\; Smith and Archer 2020). We also welcome empirical work examining how patterns of silence\, non-response\, and inattention shape collective responses to harmful speech\, including their effects on perceived social norms and the recognition of harm (Zapata et al. 2024).
\nMore information: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Irene Lo Faro;CN=Jimena Zapata: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress UID:20261009T233537Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Edinburgh\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS
\n--Professor Eileen John (Philosophy\, University of Warwick)
--Professor Pierre Bayard (Literature\, Université\; Paris 8 - Saint-Denis)
From Plato&rsquo\;s indictment of the tragic poets as misrepresenting the truth\, to Sir Philip Sidney&rsquo\;s famous claim in the Defence of Poesy that &lsquo\;the Poet\, he nothing affirms\, and therefore never lieth&rsquo\;\, to current debates about fictionality and factuality\, the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;has been a focus of scholarly attention. Both \;fiction-makers and liars make things up and misrepresent the truth. But it is traditionally assumed that with \;fiction\, the invention is non-deceptive. As Margaret Macdonald (1954\, 170) put the point\, &lsquo\;The conviction induced by a story is the result of a mutual conspiracy\, freely entered into\, between author and audience. A storyteller does not \;lie\, nor is a normal auditor deceived&rsquo\;. Macdonald proposed that instead\, \;fiction-makers engage in a non-deceptive pretence of assertion\; but other approaches also distinguish between fictionality and deception\, from philosophers who associate \;fiction \;with an invitation to make-believe rather than to believe to narratologists who treat fictionality as a rhetorical mode of communication that overtly signals fabrication. If \;lies \;are assertions aimed at deception\, perhaps \;fictions \;are incapable of \;lying.
Yet a sharp distinction between fictionality and deception confronts numerous challenges. Scholars across disciplines have considered the many ways in which \;fictions \;can affect our beliefs\, for good or ill. Even if \;fictions \;cannot \;lie \;in some technical sense\, they can certainly mislead\, insinuate\, obfuscate and so on. Works of \;fiction \;may be instances of propaganda which misrepresent the facts\; think of Oliver Stone&rsquo\;s film JFK (1991) or Michael Crichton&rsquo\;s \;novel \;State of Fear (2004). And the distinctions between the \;fictional \;and factual are under increasing pressure in the current culture of disinformation and &lsquo\;fake news&rsquo\; &ndash\; a category not so easy to distinguish from &lsquo\;fictional \;news&rsquo\;.
This three-day international conference aims to explore the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives\, including philosophy\, literary history and theory\, narratology\, film and media studies\, psychology and cognitive science. Proposals may address fiction in general\, or any historical period or cultural tradition. We also encourage studies of fictional works in a variety of media (including video games\, comics\, film\, and television series).
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
\n&bull\;The possibility of lying in/through fiction
\n&bull\;Other modes of deception and dissimulation in fiction (in particular works\, in different media\, etc.)
\n&bull\;Fiction and fictionality as (tools for) propaganda
\n&bull\;The relationship between fiction and fake news
\n&bull\;Differing historical or cultural conceptions of the relationship between fiction and lies
\n&bull\;Representations of deception within fiction (e.g.\, unreliable narrators\, lying protagonists\, forgers)
\n&bull\;Fictions that (seem to) deceive about their own status (e.g.\, mockumentary)\, and more generally\, questions of &lsquo\;framing&rsquo\;
\n\nPlease note: There may be a conference registration fee (discounted for students) depending on the outcome of grant funding applications.
\n\nSubmission guidance
\n&bull\;All submissions should be sent by attachment in Word or pdf to fictionlies2026@gmail.com by 15 December 2025. \;
\n&bull\;Papers: Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words\, in English or French. Bear in mind that sessions scheduled for paper presentations will be 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes questions and answers). \;
\n&bull\;Symposia: Proposals\, in English or French\, should be no longer than 500 words and should include a description of the topic/theme\, the names/affiliations of participants and brief abstracts of the papers. Sessions for symposia will be 1.5 hours or 2 hours depending on the schedule and thus should typically have no more than three speakers. \;
\n&bull\;We encourage submissions from\, and symposia including\, members of groups underrepresented in their disciplines\, including women in philosophy. Symposia in philosophy should ensure that the proposal follows the Good Practice Policy of the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy (see bpa.ac.uk/resources/women-in-philosophy/good-practice). Please also take note of the BPA&rsquo\;s Environment/Travel Guideline Scheme (bpa.ac.uk/policies).
\n&bull\;Funding may be available towards the cost of arranging childcare for speakers who may require it. Please ask for details.
\n&bull\;Participants in the conference will be expected to become members of the Association if they are not already (www.fictionstudies.org).
\nEarly career prize
\nThe ASIFF/SIRFF will offer a prize for the best paper by an early-career scholar (doctoral student or scholar who has received their PhD within the last 3 years)\, to be presented at the conference. The winner will receive a monetary award of &euro\;1\,000 (euros). If you would like to be considered for this award\, please submit your completed conference paper (no more than 3\,500 words/20\,000 characters) by 28 February 2026 to fictionlies2026@gmail.com. The article must be unpublished.
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Stacie Friend: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261219T170000 SUMMARY:2027 University of Kentucky Graduate Philosophy Conference: Language and World UID:20261009T233538Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:218 E Maxwell Street\, Lexington\, United States DESCRIPTION:We invite you to submit to this year's installment of our annual graduate conference\, held in person at the University of Kentucky in Lexington\, KY on Saturday\, February 27\, 2027. Our conference theme is Language and World.
\nConference Details:
\nOur theme is to be broadly construed\, and we welcome submissions from all philosophical traditions\, including but not limited to ancient\, medieval\, and modern philosophy\; non-Western philosophy\; and continental philosophy\, pragmatism\, and analytic philosophy. Topics of interest for the event include (but are not limited to) the nature of the gap between our concepts and the world\, whether the world fixes the meanings of our words\, how we navigate the world in light of breakdowns of meaning\, how our linguistic practices affect the world\, and how language discloses being. The event is open to a wide variety of subfields\, including feminist philosophy\, deconstruction\, history of philosophy\, metaethics\, phenomenology\, existentialism\, philosophy of religion\, and so on.
\nWe are happy to be joined by keynote speaker Dr. James Conant. Dr. Conant's many titles include Chester D. Tripp Distinguished Service Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago\, co-director of the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism in Leipzig\, and director of the Center for German Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
\nSubmission details:
\nPapers should be no longer than 3\,500 words (excluding footnotes and references) and suitable for a 20-30 minute presentation. Presentations will be followed by 15-30 minute Q&\;A sessions.
\nPlease send anonymized submissions via email to James[dot]Chadwell[at]uky[dot] edu. Head your submission with an abstract of no more than 250 words. Please include your paper title\, abstract\, and word count in your submission email. Papers should be attachments in Word or PDF format.
\nSubmission deadline: December 19\, 2026. We will notify authors of acceptance by January 16\, 2027. \;
\nFor more information\, contact James[dot]Chadwell[at]uky[dot]edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=James Chadwell;CN=Nanda Harish: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261231T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261231T230000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics: Historical\, Systematic\, and Contemporary Perspectives_CfP UID:20261009T233539Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics: Historical\, Systematic\, and Contemporary Perspectives
Few claims in Ludwig Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s philosophy are as influential and enigmatic as the remark in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus that &ldquo\;ethics and aesthetics are one.&rdquo\; From the early notebooks and the Tractatus through the Lecture on Ethics\, the Lectures on Aesthetics\, the Philosophical Investigations\, On Certainty\, and Culture and Value\, questions of value\, meaning\, art\, judgment\, responsibility\, and religious experience remain central to his thought.
\nWittgenstein\, however\, develops neither an ethical system nor a traditional theory of aesthetics. Instead\, his reflections concern forms of life\, practices of judgment\, modes of perception\, and ways in which value becomes manifest without being reducible to theoretical propositions. Ethics and aesthetics thus touch upon fundamental questions concerning language\, world-understanding\, education\, attention\, culture\, and the limits and possibilities of philosophy itself.
\nThe planned volume seeks to bring together historical and exegetical studies with systematic\, comparative\, and contemporary approaches to Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s ethics and aesthetics. Contributions may examine continuities and transformations between his early and later philosophy\, explore connections between ethics\, aesthetics\, religion\, mysticism\, philosophical anthropology\, and cultural criticism\, or bring Wittgenstein into dialogue with thinkers such as Kant\, Kierkegaard\, Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Tolstoy\, Weil\, Murdoch\, Anscombe\, Cavell\, Sontag\, Arendt\, Levinas\, Taylor\, and Adorno.
\nParticularly welcome are contributions investigating the contemporary significance of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s thought. Possible areas include artificial intelligence and digital forms of life\, environmental ethics\, deep disagreement\, political ethics\, visual culture\, moral education\, the ethics of attention\, the aesthetics of the ordinary\, and the role of art\, literature\, music\, architecture\, and film.
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nContributions from philosophy\, art history\, literary studies\, religious studies\, and related disciplines are welcome.
\nSubmission
\nPlease submit an English abstract of no more than 350 words\, together with a brief academic biography\, by 31 December 2026 to moritzpretzsch@uni-kassel.de.
\nAuthors will be notified following the peer-review process. Completed chapters are due by 1 April 2027.
\nThe volume is planned for publication in early 2028 with a leading international academic publisher. Detailed information concerning length\, citation format\, style\, and editorial guidelines will be provided upon acceptance.
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270107T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270107T090000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers - PAMBA 2027 UID:20261009T233540Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS
The Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behaviour Association (PAMBA) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2027 biennial meeting\, which will be held at the University of Warwick on April 27th-29th 2027. Abstracts can be on any topics in the field of philosophy of animal minds to be presented as a paper or poster. Abstracts must be fully anonymized\, no longer than 1000 words and submitted by January 7th 2027 to PAMBA.Warwick@gmail.com.
All submissions will be considered for both talk and poster presentations. If you do not wish your submission to be considered for one of the formats\, please make this clear in your submission email. \;
The subject line of your email must read 'PAMBA abstract submission'.
If you qualify for the PAMBA Prize and also wish to submit a full paper\, please follow the instructions below. \;
PAMBA PRIZE
We are also pleased to invite submissions for the PAMBA Prize essay in any area of the philosophy of animal minds. The winning essay will be published in Biology &\; Philosophy and the winner will be awarded an invitation to present the paper as a keynote talk at the PAMBA meeting at Warwick. We will additionally cover travel expenses of up to £\;1500 to offset travel costs to the PAMBA conference. The paper must be unpublished\, under 10\,000 words\, and meet the Biology &\; Philosophy submission guidelines.
The competition is open to early-career researchers\, defined as PhD students or those who are within five years of receiving their PhDs (i.e.\, the PhD should have been received in January 2022 or later).
Submissions on all aspects of the philosophy of animal minds are welcome. \;
Please send submissions with the subject line 'PAMBA Prize submission' to PAMBA.Warwick@gmail.com. For any questions\, please email us at the same address. \;
If you want your PAMBA prize submission to be considered for a poster or talk at the PAMBA conference\, please also submit an abstract to the main conference email as above.
The deadline is by January 7th 2027.
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
\nCLINICAL PRAGMATICS AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Language\, Mind\, and Communication Across the Lifespan
Edited by Paola Pennisi
University of Messina\, Italy
Proposed for the Springer series
Perspectives in Pragmatics\, Philosophy &\; Psychology
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\nABOUT THE VOLUME
\nClinical pragmatics offers a privileged perspective on the relationships between language\, meaning\, cognition\, and social interaction.
\nThis edited volume will bring together clinical\, linguistic\, philosophical\, psychological\, neuropsychological\, and cognitive-scientific approaches to pragmatic communication across the lifespan.
\nWe particularly welcome contributions that begin with the description or analysis of clinical and atypical pragmatic-linguistic profiles and use this evidence to develop\, refine\, or challenge broader theories of language\, meaning\, cognition\, and interaction.
\nThere are no submission or publication fees for contributors.
\n────────────────────────────────────────
\nTOPICS MAY INCLUDE
\n&bull\; Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
&bull\; Social and pragmatic communication disorders
&bull\; Developmental language disorder and intellectual disability
&bull\; Genetic and rare syndromes
&bull\; Schizophrenia\, psychosis\, and psychiatric conditions
&bull\; Aphasia and right-hemisphere communication disorders
&bull\; Traumatic brain injury
&bull\; Parkinson&rsquo\;s disease\, dementia\, and other neurodegenerative conditions
&bull\; Hearing loss\, visual impairment\, and multimodal communication
&bull\; Pragmatic development and pragmatic changes across the lifespan
&bull\; Theory of mind\, mentalizing\, and social cognition
&bull\; Executive functions\, memory\, attention\, emotion\, and cognitive flexibility
&bull\; Pragmatic inference\, implicature\, presupposition\, and speech acts
&bull\; Metaphor\, irony\, humour\, sarcasm\, and indirect language
&bull\; Narrative\, discourse\, conversation\, prosody\, gesture\, and gaze
&bull\; Embodied\, enactive\, phenomenological\, ecological\, and interactional approaches
&bull\; Pragmatic assessment\, diagnosis\, intervention\, and rehabilitation
&bull\; Cross-linguistic\, cross-cultural\, and multilingual perspectives
&bull\; Digital technologies\, computational methods\, and artificial intelligence
Related proposals are also welcome.
\n────────────────────────────────────────
\nTYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
\nThe volume welcomes:
\n&bull\; Experimental and observational studies
&bull\; Descriptions of pragmatic-linguistic profiles
&bull\; Qualitative\, quantitative\, and mixed-method studies
&bull\; Conversation\, discourse\, narrative\, and multimodal analyses
&bull\; Clinical case studies and case series
&bull\; Comparative and transdiagnostic studies
&bull\; Assessment and intervention studies
&bull\; Methodological contributions
&bull\; Theoretical and philosophical papers
&bull\; Systematic\, scoping\, and narrative reviews
&bull\; Meta-analyses and interdisciplinary position papers
Contributions may address any age group\, from early childhood to older adulthood.
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\nSUBMISSION
\nPlease submit:
\n&bull\; A provisional title
&bull\; An abstract of approximately 300&ndash\;500 words
&bull\; Five keywords
&bull\; Authors&rsquo\; names\, affiliations\, and contact details
&bull\; A short biographical note
&bull\; The proposed type of contribution
Abstracts should be sent to:
\nPaola Pennisi
University of Messina
paola.pennisi@unime.it
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\nIMPORTANT DATES
\nAbstract submission: 31 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2027
Full chapter submission: 7 January 2028
Peer-review reports: 28 February 2028
Final manuscript submission to Springer: June 2028
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\nAll chapters will undergo scholarly peer review. Acceptance of an abstract does not automatically guarantee publication of the final chapter.
\nProspective contributors are welcome to circulate this call among interested colleagues.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20270210T090000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20270212T170000 SUMMARY:Conspiracies\, Facts\, and Truth III UID:20261009T233542Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Pacific/Auckland LOCATION:Knighton Road Hamilton 3240\, Hamilton\, New Zealand DESCRIPTION:In February of 2027 we (Joe Ulatowski [University of Waikato] and myself\, M R. X. Dentith [Beijing Normal University]) will be running the third "Conspiracies\, Facts\, and Truth&rdquo\; workshop at the University of Waikato\, Aotearoa New Zealand.
\nDates: February 10\, 2026 - February 12\, 2027
\nThe aim of this workshop series is to share new work on the philosophy of conspiracy theory theory\, the value of truth and facts in public discourse more generally\, and related topics. We are interested in philosophical talks (both full presentations as well as shorter work-in-progress talks) concerning conspiracy theory theory\, fake news\, post truth\, mis-\, dis- and malinformation (and other related subjects).
\nWe are accepting proposals for both in person and online presentations\, with a preference towards in person talks.
\nIf you are interested in joining us and sharing your work\, please email either Joe Ulatowski (joe.ulatowski@waikato.ac.nz) or M R. X. Dentith (m.dentith@bnu.edu.cn) with the title and short 150-word abstract of your work\, as well as an indication as to whether this is a full paper or a work-in-progress\, by the 1st December\, 2026. Space is limited\, so please contact the organisers as soon as possible.
ORGANIZER;CN=M R. X. Dentith;CN=Joseph Ulatowski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Lima:20270222T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Lima:20270228T170000 SUMMARY:Thinking the Unthinkable: The Logic and Philosophy of Paradox UID:20261009T233543Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Lima LOCATION:Lima\, Peru DESCRIPTION:Thinking the Unthinkable is a session within CAELO 1 (Lima\, 22&ndash\;28 February 2027) dedicated to the logical and philosophical study of paradox. This symposium will explore the nature\, origins\, and significance of paradoxes across logic\, philosophy\, mathematics\, language\, and the sciences. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which paradoxes challenge established notions of truth\, consistency\, rationality\, meaning\, and inference\, as well as to the formal and philosophical strategies developed to understand\, resolve\, or accommodate them.
\nThe session aims to bring together formal\, philosophical\, and historical approaches to paradox\, fostering dialogue on the role of paradox in the development of logic and its broader philosophical significance.
\nTo learn more about CAELO 1 and discover its other special sessions\, please visit the main event website.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270227T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270227T170000 SUMMARY:2027 University of Kentucky Graduate Philosophy Conference: Language and World UID:20261009T233544Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:218 E Maxwell Street\, Lexington\, United States DESCRIPTION:We invite you to this installment of our annual graduate conference\, held in person at the University of Kentucky's Bingham Davis House in Lexington\, KY on Saturday\, February 27\, 2027. Our conference theme is Language and World.
\nOur theme is to be broadly construed\, and the event is open to all philosophical traditions\, including but not limited to ancient\, medieval\, and modern philosophy\; non-Western philosophy\; and continental philosophy\, pragmatism\, and analytic philosophy. Topics of interest for the event include the nature of the gap between our concepts and the world\, whether the world fixes the meanings of our words\, how we navigate the world in light of breakdowns of meaning\, how our linguistic practices affect the world\, and how language discloses being. The event is open to a wide variety of subfields\, including feminist philosophy\, deconstruction\, history of philosophy\, metaethics\, phenomenology\, existentialism\, philosophy of religion\, and so on.
\nWe are happy to be joined by keynote speaker Dr. James Conant. Dr. Conant's many titles include Chester D. Tripp Distinguished Service Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago\, co-director of the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism in Leipzig\, and director of the Center for German Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
\nFor more information\, contact James[dot]Chadwell[at]uky[dot]edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=James Chadwell;CN=Nanda Harish: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T000000 SUMMARY:Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism (Special Issue of JCCP) UID:20261009T233545Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Mind without Inner Representation?
\nPsychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism
\nSpecial Issue of \;Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (JCCP)
\nGuest Editor: Rusong Huang
\nContact: rusongh@gmail.com
\nSubmission deadline: March 1\, 2027
\nTopic areas: Philosophy of Mind\; Philosophy of Language\; Metaphysics\; Normativity\; Philosophy of Psychology
\nDescription
\nWhen we attribute beliefs\, desires\, intentions\, fears\, memories\, imaginings\, sensations\, or experiences to someone\, what are we doing?
\nMuch of modern philosophy of mind has assumed that psychological sentences are representational: they describe mental states\, properties\, events\, or processes belonging to a subject. This assumption generates familiar metaphysical pressures. If psychological sentences represent mental facts\, then we must explain how such facts fit into the physical world. This gives rise to what has been variously called the location problem\, the placement problem\, the accommodation problem\, or the problem of how mind can be at home in nature.
\nThis special issue invites papers that examine whether the representational assumption about psychological discourse should be rejected\, revised\, or defended. It focuses on a family of views that challenge\, in different ways\, the idea that psychological sentences primarily function to represent inner mental facts. These include fictionalism\, eliminativism\, error theory\, illusionism\, and mental anti-representationalism &mdash\; what we may call\, for convenience\, the FEEL theories and MAR. The issue welcomes both sympathetic and critical treatments of these views\, as well as papers that defend more traditional representationalist approaches.
\nA central aim of the issue is to explore the relations among these positions. Are the FEEL theories and MAR competing alternatives\, or can they be combined? Does MAR collapse into one of the FEEL theories\, or does it offer a distinct way of rejecting inner-fact representationalism? Can these approaches preserve the explanatory\, rational\, and normative roles of psychological discourse while avoiding the metaphysical burdens of inner-object models of mind?
\nPossible topics
\nSubmissions may address\, but are not limited to:
\nPapers may be sympathetic\, critical\, historical\, systematic\, or comparative.
\nSubmission instructions
\nSubmissions should be original articles not currently under consideration elsewhere.
\nManuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review and should not exceed 10\,000 words\, including quotations and footnotes but excluding reference lists.
\nPlease submit manuscripts in the Editorial Manager for JCCP: \; https://www.editorialmanager.com/jccp/default.aspx \;
\nYou may see submission instructions here.
\nPlease indicate that the paper is intended for the special issue &ldquo\;Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism.&rdquo\;
\nSubmission deadline: March 1\, 2027
\nExpected publication: Fall 2027 / early 2028
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270303T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270305T170000 SUMMARY:Semantic Indeterminacy UID:20261009T233546Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Konstanz\, Germany DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our workshop on Semantic Indeterminacy\, to take place at the University of Konstanz\, from the 3rd to 5th March 2027. \;
\nSemantic indeterminacy constitutes a rich area of research that brings together different philosophical branches. In spite of the deep conceptual connections between the philosophical subdisciplines within the study of semantic indeterminacy\, the proposals in the different areas rarely crossed boundaries\, resulting in less discussions and exchange. At our conference\, we will bring together researchers working on semantic indeterminacy and related topics in the areas of Logic\, Philosophy of Language\, Philosophy of Mathematics to present their novel work on these issues.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Pablo Dopico;CN=Ludovica Conti;CN=Matteo Zicchetti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270723T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270725T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophical Threads in the Work of Marcia Muelder Eaton UID:20261009T233547Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Galesburg\, United States DESCRIPTION:Marcia Muelder Eaton (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, emerita) is former President of the American Society of Aesthetics\; her work in philosophical aesthetics is of lasting significance. Her early work in the philosophy of language informs her later accounts of meaning\, interpretation\, and communication in art. Her contributions to debates about the ethical dimensions of aesthetic experience have shaped discussions on the role moral concerns should inform our responses to artworks\, while her work in environmental aesthetics has expanded the scope of aesthetic inquiry beyond fine art to include everyday and natural environments. This conference offers a new opportunity to further the understanding of Marcia Muelder Eaton&rsquo\;s philosophical contributions\, while advancing contemporary debates in aesthetics\, ethics\, and environmental thought. The conference will be held at her almamater\, Knox College\, in Galesburg\, IL\, from July 23&ndash\;25\, 2027. The conference is generously supported by Knox College and the American Society for Aesthetics.
\nThere will be two keynote speakers for the conference: Noë\;l Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center) and Carolyn Korsmeyer (SUNY at Buffalo\, emerita). In addition\, environmental photographer Regina Flanagan\, whose work has been deeply influenced by Eaton&rsquo\;s theories\, will make a presentation. We also have three confirmed invited speakers: A. W. Eaton (University of Illinois\, Chicago)\, Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities)\, and Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)\, as well as the organizers\, James Harold (Mount Holyoke College) and Brandon Polite (Knox College).
ORGANIZER;CN=James Harold;CN=Brandon Polite: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270723T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270723T140000 SUMMARY:Philosophical Threads in the Work of Marcia Muelder Eaton UID:20261009T233548Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Galesburg\, United States DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: Philosophical Threads in the Work of Marcia Muelder Eaton
\n\nMarcia Muelder Eaton (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, emerita) is former President of the American Society of Aesthetics\; her work in philosophical aesthetics is of lasting significance. Her early work in the philosophy of language informs her later accounts of meaning\, interpretation\, and communication in art. Her contributions to debates about the ethical dimensions of aesthetic experience have shaped discussions on the role moral concerns should inform our responses to artworks\, while her work in environmental aesthetics has expanded the scope of aesthetic inquiry beyond fine art to include everyday and natural environments. This conference offers a new opportunity to further the understanding of Marcia Muelder Eaton&rsquo\;s philosophical contributions\, while advancing contemporary debates in aesthetics\, ethics\, and environmental thought. The conference will be held at her almamater\, Knox College\, in Galesburg\, IL\, from July 23&ndash\;25\, 2027. The conference is generously supported by Knox College and the American Society for Aesthetics.
\n\nThere will be two keynote speakers for the conference: Noë\;l Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center) and Carolyn Korsmeyer (SUNY at Buffalo\, emerita). In addition\, environmental photographer Regina Flanagan\, whose work has been deeply influenced by Eaton&rsquo\;s theories\, will make a presentation. We also have three confirmed invited speakers: A. W. Eaton (University of Illinois\, Chicago)\, Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities)\, and Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)\, as well as the organizers\, James Harold (Mount Holyoke College) and Brandon Polite (Knox College).
\n\nPapers in any area of philosophical aesthetics to which Eaton contributed are welcome\, including but not limited to: definitions of art\, the relationship between ethics and aesthetics\, environmental aesthetics\, beauty\, the nature of aesthetic properties\, fictionality\, and philosophy of literature. We especially encourage submissions that specifically comment on or engage with Eaton&rsquo\;s scholarship. Members of traditionally underrepresented groups are especially welcome to apply. The deadline for abstracts (500&ndash\;750 words) is February 1\, 2027. Final papers should be under 4000 words\, suitable for a 30 minute presentation. Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and submitted to mmeaton2027@googlegroups.com.
\n\nTwo spots on the program will be reserved for graduate students or early career scholars\, for whom travel and lodging costs will be subsidized. If you belong to one of these groups\, please identify yourself as such in your submission email. Decisions will be made by March 31\, 2027.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=James Harold;CN=Brandon Polite: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261006T184323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:29990101T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:29990201T120000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Creativity and Improvisation in Thought\, Practice\, and Mind: An Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20261009T233549Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:e0e7:9bff:fe34:7695%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, United States\, 68182 DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has officially been postponed. More information will be made available asap in the near future*
\nMany human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised. \; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:
\n- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?
\n- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?
\n- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?
\n- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?
\n- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?
\n- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.
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