36.956, Confs: Applied Issues in Current Epistemology and Philosophy of Language (Portugal)

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Subject: 36.956, Confs: Applied Issues in Current Epistemology and Philosophy of Language (Portugal)

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Date: 19-Mar-2025
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: Applied Issues in Current Epistemology and Philosophy of Language


Applied Issues in Current Epistemology and Philosophy of Language

Date: 20-Mar-2025 - 21-Mar-2025
Location: Porto, Portugal
Contact: Dan Zeman
Contact Email: danczeman at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/workshop-applied-issues-current-epistemology-philosophy-language

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics

Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto
Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto
​​DESCRIPTION
In recent years, work in analytic epistemology and philosophy of
language has witnessed an increased interest in applied, or
socially-relevant issues, such as various social aspects of knowledge,
epistemic injustice, linguistic tools for discrimination and
propaganda, non-ideal communication and reasoning, biases, etc. Such
issues are tightly connected with moral, political and legal
considerations and can shape our views in those areas by getting clear
on the epistemic and linguistic aspects they incur. This ensemble of
work thus belongs to what has come to be known as the "political turn
in analytic philosophy". This workshop is part of that movement and
can be seen as a small-scale illustration of the main topics such
applied projects focus on. The objectives of the workshop are to bring
together international researchers working on socially-relevant issues
in current epistemology and philosophy of language and to introduce
students and local researchers to these.
ORGANIZATION
The workshop is organized by Dan Zeman and Tim Kenyon. The organizers
acknowledge the financial and administrative support of the following:
Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other
Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (2023.05952.CEECIND project)
Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto – UID/00502
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto/Caixa Geral de Depósitos
PROGRAM
(All times are in Western European Time)
Thursday, March 20, room 310
15.15: Welcome
15.30-16.45: Tim Kenyon (Brock University), "Greasy Speech"
17.00-18.15: Giulia Terzian (NOVA University Lisbon), "Illocutionary
Manipulation, Plausible Deniability and Epistemic Fallout"
Friday, March 21, room 203
10.00-11.15: Dan Zeman (University of Porto), "Forms of Reclamation
and Derogatory Content: In Search of a Unitary Approach"
11.45-13.00: Claudia Picazo (UNED Madrid), "Protests and Meaning
Change"
Lunch
14.30-15.45: Alba Moreno Zurita (University of Santiago de
Compostela/University of Porto) & Sergio Guerra (University of
Granada), "The Perks of Being Fusioned"
15.45-17.00: Dima Mohammed (NOVA University Lisbon), "Political
Argumentation: The Public Reason-Giving between Persuasion and
Epistemic Resistance"
17.30-18.15: Domingos Faria (University of Porto), "A ‘Collective
Turn’ in Religious Epistemology"
For more information, including the abstracts of the talks, please
visit
https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/workshop-applied-issues-current-epistemology-philosophy-language.



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