Functions and Functional Roles of Concepts
28 MAY '25
The LanCog group at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL) welcomes anyone interested to participate at a workshop gathering 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”.
Schedule
Wednesday 28 May
9.50-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.30 Matthew Chrisman, “Alienation from Normativity (and Logic?)”
11.30-11.50 COFFEE BREAK
11.50-13.00 Matthew Simpson, “Inferences and Dispositions”
13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00-15.30 Amie Thomasson, “Yeah to Truth, or: The Functions of Truth Talk”
15.30-15.50 COFFEE BREAK
15.50-17.20 Luca Incurvati, “Imperatives and deontic modality: an inferential expressivist perspective”
Thursday 29 May
10.00-11.30 Christine Tiefensee, “Ought and Good”
11.30-11.50 COFFEE BREAK
11.50-13.00 Sofia Bokros, “Meaning-Constitutive Inference and Semantic Competence”
13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00-15.10 Arvid Båve, “The function of nominalizations”
15.15-16.25 Niklas Dahl, “Some Necessary Revisions: From Belief Revision to Modality”
16.30-17.40 Carmela Vieites Figueiras, Ana Rosa López Rodríguez, and Andrea Rodríguez Gómez: “The Swiss Knife”
19.30- DINNER
Friday 30 May
10.00-11.30 John Cantwell, “A meaning theoretical framework for expressivism”
11.30-11.50 COFFEE BREAK
11.50-13.00 Herman Veluwenkamp, “Designing Concepts: A Normative Framework for Conceptual Ethics”
13.00-14.10 LUNCH BREAK
14.10-15.40 Joshua Gert, “Inferentialism, Meaning, and Rules”
15.40-16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.00-17.30 Julian Schlöder (videolink), “Semantic Crises”