A few decades ago, it felt like almost the entire field of philosophy of mind was focused on a pretty narrow range of questions (the mind-body problem, consciousness, the nature of intentionality, etc.). Insofar as anyone wanted to work on anything else, they often justified those interests by trying to explain how what they are…
Brief Changes to the Situation Don’t Have Much Impact on Judgments
There’s a certain kind of study we used to see all the time. The researchers ask all participants to make a judgment regarding the exact same question, but then they vary something in the external situation. They change the temperature in the room. Or the song that is playing in the background. Or they do…
Call: “EPITHETS & STAL-2025 Workshop”
The next workshop by the project “Explaining Pejoratives in Theoretical and Experimental Terms” (EPITHETS) and the “Slurring Terms Across Languages” (STAL) network will take place in Genoa, Italy, from May 7 to 8, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted until December 10. The call reads:
Call: “The Puzzle of Social Behavior – Game Theory and Beyond”
Mantas Radzvilas and Wolfgang Spohn organize a workshop on “The Puzzle of Social Behavior – Game Theory and Beyond” at the University of Bielefeld. It will take place from April 3 to 5, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted until January 6, 2025. The call reads: There are up to 5 further slots of 40 minutes…
Talk: “Maximize Expressivity!” (Nicolás Lo Guercio)
On Monday, November 4, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+2), the Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network will present Nicolás Lo Guercio’s talk “Maximize Expressivity!” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: In interpreting utterances language users frequently compare the sentence used by the speaker with a set of alternative sentences that she could have…
Workshop: “Methodological Trends and Challenges in Contemporary Philosophy”
From October 25 to 26, the workshop “Methodological Trends and Challenges in Contemporary Philosophy”, organized by Martin Justin, Maja Malec, Olga Markič, Nastja Tomat, and Borut Trpin, will take place at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The announcement reads: Contemporary analytic philosophers have expanded their methodological toolkit beyond traditional philosophical inquiry, embracing a wide array…
Talk: “In the Thick of It” (Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani)
On Monday, October 14, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+2), the Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network will present Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani’s talk “In the Thick of It – Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-Charged Language?” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: Words like “courageous”, “clever”, “gullible”, “smelly” and…
Call: “Agency and Intentions in Language”
The fifth instalment of “Agency and Intentions in Language” (AIL) is coming. Hosted by the University of Göttingen, it will take place online from January 29 to 31, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted until December 18. The call reads: Call for Papers On the linguistic side, we welcome submissions examining any grammatical phenomena sensitive to…
Workshop: “XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series”
The “XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series”, organized by James Andow and Eugen Fischer, continues. They write: We are looking forward to the next series of our monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy. The workshop is held via Teams, the second Wednesday of each month, 16:00-18:00 UK…
Talk: “Slurs Across Syntactic Realizations” (Bianca Cepollaro, Filippo Domaneschi, and Isidora Stojanovic)
On Monday, September 23, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+2), the Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network will present Bianca Cepollaro, Filippo Domaneschi, and Isidora Stojanovic’s talk “Slurs Across Syntactic Realizations – Experimental Evidence on Predicative vs. Ad-Nominal Uses of Slurs” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: The research on slurs has been largely…