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…
Category: Philosophy of Language
Call: “Agency and Intentions in Language”
The fifth instalment of Agency and Intentions in Language 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 the…
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…
Hot Off The Press: “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy – Volume 5”
Volume 5 of the “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy”, edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, just hit the shelves! It comprises a total of 16 chapters on no less than 480 pages. See below for the table of contents. Literature Knobe, Joshua, and Shaun Nichols (eds.) (2024): Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. Volume 5….
Hot Off The Press: “The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy”
“The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy”, a new entry into the De Gruyter Reference series, brings together experimental philosophers from around the globe to provide interested readers with insights into many topics currently researched in x-phi. See below for the table of contents. Part 1 – The Philosophy of Experimental Philosophy Part 2 – Topics…