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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2025-26

LanCog’s main seminar regularly takes place on Friday afternoons, from 4 PM to 6 PM, in room Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Department of Philosophy), with 50 minutes dedicated to a talk by a member or invited speaker, followed by a 10-minute break, and an hour for Q&A. After each session, there is usually a dinner with the speaker.

 

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Previous Sessions:

 

Session 27 5 June 2026

Common Knowledge and Publicity

Sena Bozdag (University of Bayreuth)

 

Responding to Reasons and Virtue 28-29 May 2026, Room B112.D

Orgs. Erasmus Mayr (University of Erlangen) & David Horst (University of Lisbon)

 

Session 26 29 May 2026

Abstraction Principles and Part-Whole: a Retrospective Survey

Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Session 25 22 May 2026

X Is Essentially F

Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University)

 

Session 24 15 May 2026

The Difference Semantics for Conditionals

Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich)

 

Session 23 8 May 2026

Becoming Something Else

Elia Zardini (Complutense University of Madrid)

 

Petrus Hispanus Lectures Tim Crane (Central European University, Vienna)

Session 1, “What is Intelligence?” 28 April 2026, Room A201 Anfiteatro III

Session 2, “What Can Computers Do?” 30 April 2026, Room B112.D, Library Building

 

UPPER Seminar & LanCog extra Session  28 April 2026

TBC

Javier Belastegui (University of Basque Country)

 

Session 22 24 April 2026

Concept Learning As Opening a Mental File

Nico Orlandi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

 

Self-versus-Self Conflicts 23 April 2026, 18h30-20h00, Sala Empreender TTC@Ulisboa

Barry Lam (University of California, Riverside)

 

Barry Lam (University of California, Riverside) Visiting 21-24 April 2026

 

Session 21 17 April 2026

The Neglect of Micro-observers

Ana-Maria Cretu (University of Bristol)

 

Session 20 10 April 2026

The Naturefactual: Metaphysical and Normative Aspects

Patrik Engisch (University of Geneva)

 

Session 19 27 March 2026

Scientific Understanding as Dependency-Grasping

Robert Michels (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Second Workshop of the Indeterminacy in Science Project 23-24 March 2026, Room B112.B

Orgs. Ana Escher (LanCog, University of Lisbon) & Robert Michels (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 18 20 March 2026

Patterns of Truth: Location and Modality

Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California)

 

Conference on Senses of Self 11-13 March 2026

Org. Jeremy Pober (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 17 6 March 2026

Questions in the Language and Logic of Thought

Salvador Mascarenhas (École Normale Supérieure, Institut Jean-Nicod)

 

Session 16 27 February 2026

Primitivist Views of Belief and Knowledge

Pascal Engel (EHESS, Paris)

 

Session 15 20 February 2026

Fashion Statements: Sartorial Communication and Common Ground

Sanna Hirvonen (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 14 13 February 2026

AI Art and Artists: What They Are, What They Could Be, What They Should Be

Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)

 

Session 13 19 December 2025

Metaphysical Indeterminacy of Causal Relations: the Case of the Quantum Switch

Laurie Letertre (University of Munich)

 

Contemporary Debates about Fiction 4 19 December 2025, 13h00-15h00, Manuel García-Carpintero (LOGOS, University of Barcelona; LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Contemporary Debates about Fiction 3 18 December 2025, 14h00-17h00, Manuel García-Carpintero (LOGOS, University of Barcelona; LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 12 12 December 2025

Deflationism: From Semantics to Ontology

Thomas Schindler (University of Amsterdam)

 

Contemporary Debates about Fiction 2 11 December 2025, 10h00-13h00, Manuel García-Carpintero (LOGOS, University of Barcelona; LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Contemporary Debates about Fiction 1 10 December 2025, 14h00-17h00, Manuel García-Carpintero (LOGOS, University of Barcelona; LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 11 5 December 2025

“A Goblin Walking Quietly Over the Universe”: Artifactual Events and Musical Experience

Simon Evnine (University of Miami)

 

Session 10 28 November 2025

Some Problems of Normal Form in Logical Metainferentialism

Bogdan Dicher (University of Witwatersrand)

 

Session 9 21 November 2025

Prime Numbers and Periodical Cicadas: The Case for Mathematical Platonism?

Luca Caiti (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 8 14 November 2025

Against Norms of Knowledge

David Papineau (King’s College London)

 

Session 7 7 November 2025

What is Purely Epistemic Normativity, and Why? A Study in Wolfian Epistemology

Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol)

 

Session 6 31 October 2025

A Puzzle Concerning Reason and the Emotions

Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

Session 5 24 October 2025

The Overcoming of Dynamical Explanations by Geometrical Explanations in Three Scientific Revolutions

Mauro Dorato (Roma Tre University)

 

Session 4 17 October 2025

Tasting Together

Giula Martina (TU Dortmund University)

 

Session 3 10 October 2025

Upper Logicist Ordinals

Bruno Jacinto (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 2 3 October 2025

The Substrate Flexibility of Consciousness

Jeremy Pober (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

Session 1 26 September 2025

Topic, Focus, and Relevance Properties in First-Order Relevant Logic

Nicholas Ferenz (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

LanCog Planning Meeting 19 September 2025

 

Commemorating Frege: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics 10-12 September 2025

Org. Bruno Jacinto (CFUL, LanCog), Fernando Ferreira (CEMS.UL), Joan Bertran-San-Millán (CFUL, LanCog)

 

Constitutivism in Ethics and Epistemology 4-6 September 2025

Org. Luca Ferrero (University of California, Riverside), Jeremy David Fix (University of Oxford), David Horst (University of Lisbon)

 

6th International Congress of Philosophy of the Portuguese Philosophical Society 1-3 September 2025

 

Upcoming Sessions:

 

Session 28 12 June 2026

Is Understanding a Source of Epistemic Justification?

Célia Teixeira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

 

Upper Logicism: Opening Workshop 17-19 June 2026

Org. Bruno Jacinto (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

The 2026 LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop 22-24 June 2026, Room A201 Anfiteatro III

Orgs. Hugo Luzio (LanCog, University of Lisbon) & Ned Markosian (UMass Amherst, LanCog)

 

LanCog Day 26 June 2026

 

The Harms of Interrogation 24-25 September 2026

Org. Giada Fratantonio (LanCog, University of Lisbon)

 

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