36.3295, Confs: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value (Spain)

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Subject: 36.3295, Confs: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value (Spain)

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Date: 28-Oct-2025
From: Andrés Soria Ruiz [asoriaruiz at ub.edu]
Subject: Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value


Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value

Date: 06-Nov-2025 - 07-Nov-2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Andrés Soria Ruiz
Contact Email: asoriaruiz at ub.edu

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

The workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value will take place at the
University of Barcelona & University Pompeu Fabra on November 6-7th,
2025. We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the
“acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language.
Program:
Day 1: Seminari de Filosofia (Room 4100), Facultat de Filosofia,
University of Barcelona
-10:30-10:45 Welcome
-10:45-11:30    Nate Charlow (University of Toronto): Against
Indeterminacy-Based Theories of Acquaintance
-12:00-12:45    Suchitra Srivastava (University of Burdwan):
Emotionally Marked Acquaintance: Affective Authority and the Politics
of First-Handness (online)
-14:45-15:30    Nicolás Lo Guercio (CONICET-IFF): The acquaintance
inference: the epistemic view revisited
-15:30-16:15    Noa Buckle (University of Toronto): Failing to Find
-16:45-18:00    Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University): Refining
"find": Experience, factivity, categorical judgment
Day 2: Room 52.121, Roc Boronat Building, Poblenou Campus, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
-10:45-11:30    Elin McCready (ICREA-UAB): Somatic Acquaintance
-12:00-12:45    Jiayi Zhou (University of Connecticut): A Scale of
Acquaintance Inferences in Mandarin Intensifiers
-14:45-15:30    Natalia Karczewska (Warsaw University): Acquaintance
as a norm for evaluative speech acts
-15:30-16:15    Samuel Cantor (UT Austin): Evidentially expressive
adjectives
-16:45-18:00    Nils Franzén (Umeå University): On the experience
requirement of certain mental states
If you are interested in attending, please register here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdA4orzqNVy0VQxS5uZ1lOfQyqDddu4--V8BFop9I4FQSbDVA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=110748928821974063966
More info here:
https://sites.google.com/view/andressoriaruiz/workshop-acquaintance-familiarity-value
Program chair & organization:
 - Andrés Soria Ruiz (Universitat de Barcelona)
Local organization
 - Andrés Soria Ruiz, Lucía González Arias (U. Barcelona)
 - Isidora Stojanovic, Morgan Moyer, Michelle Stankovic (U. Pompeu
Fabra)
Advisory board:
 - Teresa Marques (Universitat de Barcelona)
 - Isidora Stojanovic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
This workshop is generously funded by ERC Advanced Grant 'Valence
Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in
language, mind and morality' (GA nº 101142133), research project 'New
Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations'
(PID2023-150569NB-I00), the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department
of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona. All enquiries should be
addressed at asoriaruiz at ub.edu.



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