Applied Issues in Current Epistemology and Philosophy of Language

Date: 20-Mar-2025 - 21-Mar-2025
Location: Porto, Portugal
Contact: Dan Zeman
Contact Email: [email protected]
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.