Functions and Functional Roles of Words/Concepts

May 28, 2025

Functions and Functional Roles of Words/Concepts

University of Lisbon

28-30 May 2025


The LanCog group at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL) welcomes abstract submissions and participation at a workshop aiming to gather philosophers interested in non-representational semantic theories (like inferentialism) and non-representational functions of concepts.

 

The latter have been proposed by Ramsey (universal quantifications as inference tickets), Sellars (on counterfactuals), Hare (on normative terms), Quine (on the truth-predicate), and many others, and has attracted renewed attention with Amie Thomasson’s recent work on “linguistic functions”. Abstracts with naturalistically-minded ideas on these topics are particularly welcome.

 

CFA: Submit an anonymized long abstract of 500-1000 words no later than 1 Feb 2025 to functionalrolesworkshop@gmail.com. Decisions will have been made by 1 March. For those unable to obtain funds for travel, CFUL will try its best to secure financial aid.

 

Invited speakers:

Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College)

John Cantwell (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Joshua Gert (College of William and Mary)

Julian Schlöder (University of Connecticut)

Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam)

Arvid Båve (University of Lisbon)