Functions and Functional Roles of Concepts

Functions and Functional Roles of 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.

 

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)

Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh)

Christine Tiefensee (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

 

Refereed speakers:

Niklas Dahl (Lund University)

Sebastian Köhler (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) & Herman Veluwenkamp (University of Groningen)

Stephen Barker (Nottingham University)

Carmela Vieites Figueiras (University of València), Ana Rosa López Rodríguez (University of Granada), and Andrea Rodríguez Gómez (University of Granada)

Matthew Simpson (University of Cambridge)