ECAP12: 12TH EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, August 24th Tuesday, August 25th Wednesday, August 26th Thursday, August 27th Friday, August 28th

Monday, August 24th

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09:30-11:20 Session R: Registration

Registration desk opens for participants

11:30-13:25 Session APL1: Presidential Address

Opening Remarks: TBA (11:30-11:35)

Presidential Address: María Cerezo, President, European Society for Analytic Philosophy (11:35-13:20)

11:30
Tractarian Metaphilosophy: Rethinking Elucidation and Nonsense (abstract)
13:30-14:55Lunch Break
15:00-16:55 Session B1: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Conceptual Engineering
15:00
Reference, Representation, and Engineering Singular Concepts (abstract)
15:40
Conceptual Engineering, the Subject-Change Challenge, and Metalinguistic Awareness (abstract)
16:20
The Expressive Dimension of the Pain Concept (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session C1: Philosophy of Science: Confirmation and Explanation
15:00
How to Confirm Theories Without Considering Rival Theories (abstract)
15:40
Carnapian Explication and the Social Sciences: a Pragmatic Model of Conceptual Replacement (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E1: Epistemology: Competences, Vices and Reliabilism
15:00
Against the SkShSi Structure of Competence (abstract)
15:40
The Hearer’S Role in Testimonial Knowledge (abstract)
16:20
Reliabilism and the Normativity of Vice (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session G1: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Inferentialism and Determinacy

Honourable Mention: Gioia Susanna

15:00
Is Answering Determinacy Worries Trivial? Logical and Mathematical Inferentialism and Semantic Ascent (abstract)
15:40
Model-Theoretic Inferentialism: the Best of Both Worlds (abstract)
16:20
Feferman on the Indeterminacy of the Continuum Hypothesis (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session G1b: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Modal Issues and Impossible Worlds
15:00
Can Rigidity Be Expressed Within the Object Language? an Analysis of Various Attempts to Express Rigid Designation in First-Order Modal Languages (abstract)
15:40
A New Perspective on Impossible Worlds (abstract)
16:20
Compositional Synonymies via Linguistic Ersatz Worlds (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L1: Philosophy of Language: Speech Acts and Illocution
15:00
Illocutionary Rules: Proper Function, Rational Cooperation, and the Evolution of Communicative Norms (abstract)
15:40
The Proper Function of Assertion and the Mosaic of Norms (abstract)
16:20
How to Fix Illocutionary Force? (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L1b: Philosophy of Language: Definitions and Identity Criteria

Honourable Mention: Carla Peri

15:00
Beyond Equivalence: Identity Criteria as Because-Claims (abstract)
15:40
A Nomic Approach to the Paradox of Analysis (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session M1: Metaphysics: Causation
15:00
Naturalized Grounding and the Fate of Causal Exclusion (abstract)
15:40
Against Causal Events: Inclusion, Paraphrase, and the Boundaries of Kim'S Framework (abstract)
16:20
Refining the “Right Kind of Cause”: an Interventionist Account of Relation R (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session P1: Social and Political Philosophy: Artificial Intelligence
15:00
Fixity and Fluidity of Moral Blameworthiness in Artificial Agents (abstract)
15:40
Vulnerability and AI (abstract)
16:20
“ChatGPT Write like Me”: Epistemic Violence in the Time of Chatbots. (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session TK: Ethics: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Bart Streumer

15:00
How to Be a Self-Effacing Consequentializing Quasi-Realist (abstract)
17:00-17:25Coffee Break
17:30-19:25 Session B2: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Dispositions
17:30
Rethinking Hexis: Habits as Dispositional Properties (abstract)
18:10
Pain, Dispositions, and the Problem of Parts (abstract)
18:50
Superficialism and Chatbots (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session B2b: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Emotions and Feelings
17:30
Why Emotions Are Not Perceptions (abstract)
18:10
Emotions in Perception: a Case for the Rich Content View (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session C2: Philosophy of Science: Scientific Models
17:30
The Limitations of the Notion of 'Observable' in Diffeomorphism-Invariant Models (abstract)
18:10
Accuracy of Causal Theoretical Models: Idealizations and Scope of Model Use (abstract)
18:50
On the Evaluation of Multi-Scale Models (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session E2: Epistemology: Inquiry, concepts and questions

Honourable Mention: Zhengxi Jin

17:30
Gradable Answers and Inquisitive Progress (abstract)
18:10
Concepts as Interrogative Skills (abstract)
18:50
The Epistemic Importance of Narratives (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session HK: History of Philosophy. History of Analytic Philosophy: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Kordula Świętorzecka

17:30
Infinite Proofs for Contingent Truths: from Leibniz to Infinitary Modal Logics (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session L2: Philosophy of Language: Understanding and Artificial Intelligence
17:30
Unconscious and Conscious Linguistic Understanding (abstract)
18:10
How to Assess Whether AI Is Capable of Providing Explanations? (abstract)
18:50
Facing the Shoggoth. Apophatic Language and the New Inferential Opacity of Contemporary AI (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session M2: Metaphysics: Causation and Laws of Nature
17:30
Mechanistic Causal Infinitism (abstract)
18:10
How to Quantify the Informativeness of Laws of Nature? (abstract)
18:50
Reciprocal Causation in EES Is Still Unidirectional and Diachronic (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session M2b: Metaphysics: Metametaphysics

Honourable Mention: Pietro Lampronti

17:30
Metametaphysics and the Relativity of Linguistic Functions (abstract)
18:10
How the Hyperintensional Nature of Fundamentality Refutes Quantifier Variance (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session P2: Social and Political Philosophy: Discourse in the Public Sphere
17:30
Political Manipulation and Equal Opportunity of Influence. (abstract)
18:10
Deliberative Silence (abstract)
18:50
Weak Social Ties as a Ward Against Political Polarization (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session T1: Ethics: Motivation and Guidance
17:30
Why Ethical Theory Should Not Guide (as Much as It Could) (abstract)
18:10
Why Moral Motivation by Rightness de Dicto Is (Still) a Fetishism (abstract)
18:50
Do Moral Beliefs Motivate Action? (abstract)
19:30-20:45Wine Reception

The Wine Reception will take place at the Law Building Terrace.

Tuesday, August 25th

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09:00-10:55 Session B3: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Cognition in Plants and Microbes
09:00
Plant Cognition: Ontological Endorsement, Epistemological Critique (abstract)
09:40
Beyond the Mark of the Cognitive: an Explanation-Centred Heuristic for Plant Cognition (abstract)
10:20
The Collective Mind of Bacteria? on the Role of Concepts in Explaining Bacterial Behaviour (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session C3: Philosophy of Science: Quantum Mechanics
09:00
The Problem with the Measurement Problem (abstract)
09:40
Is There a Mechanism That Produces Many Parallel Worlds? (abstract)
10:20
Which Inferentialism for Quantum Mechanics? (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session C3B: Philosophy of Science: Concepts and Scientific Understanding
09:00
Elision, Disambiguation, and Pliant Distinctions (abstract)
09:40
Scientific Understanding and Scientific Disagreement (abstract)
10:20
Understanding-for Climate Change Extreme Events (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session E3: Epistemology: Defeat
09:00
Evolutionary Debunking, Propositional Justification, and Higher-Order Defeat (abstract)
09:40
Debasing Effects of Higher-Order Defeat (abstract)
10:20
Normative Defeaters in Reasoning (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session E3b: Epistemology: Artificial Intelligence
09:00
Confronting Knowledge Collapse (abstract)
09:40
Debunking Without Understanding. Why Chatbots Fail Against "Doing Your Own Research" (abstract)
10:20
Architects and Dwellers: Addressing the Designer-User Asymmetry in Digital Epistemology (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session G3: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Formalization and its Limits
09:00
On the Formalization of Ideals of Proof (abstract)
09:40
Formal Commitment of Formal Systems and Philosophical Fruitfulness (abstract)
10:20
“There Is No Mathematical Substitute for Philosophy.” On the Importance of the Informal in Formal Philosophizing (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session H2: History of Philosophy: Carnap and Quine

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Benjamin Zayton

Honourable Mention: Javier Arango

09:00
Not Theory, but Method: Redeeming Carnap’S Deflationism (abstract)
09:40
Carnap'S Notion of Translation (abstract)
10:20
Quine'S Debt to American Linguistics (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session L3: Philosophy of Language: Metasemantics
09:00
Metaphysical Realism and Semantic Externalism (abstract)
09:40
Rethinking Metasemantics Between Linguistic Functions and Vocabularies (abstract)
10:20
Metametasemantics Without Semantic Facts (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session M3: Metaphysics: Persistence and Time
09:00
Powerful Persistence Made More Powerful (abstract)
09:40
Actualist Five-dimensionalism (abstract)
10:20
Future Contingents: Gaps or Gluts? (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session P3: Social and Political Philosophy: Philosophy of Law
09:00
Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Law (abstract)
09:40
Legal Transplants, Legal Irritants, Legal Transfers: Identical but Different (abstract)
10:20
Dworkinian Semantics (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session R3: Philosophy of Religion: Open Questions

Honourable Mention: Dominik Odermatt

09:00
Is Silence a Mental Action? Zhiyi’S Critique of Content-Delivery Accounts of Mental Action (abstract)
09:40
Life Seeking Understanding: a Theology for the Religious Seeker (abstract)
10:20
The Doctrine of the Imago Dei: Meeting Two Challenges for No-Norm Theism (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session S3B: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Symposium

Symposium: Representational Vehicles in the Mind and Brain Sciences

09:00
Representational Vehicles in the Mind and Brain Sciences (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session T2: Ethics: Practical Reasoning
09:00
A Deprivation Account of Transformative Experience (abstract)
09:40
Infectious Incomparability: a Threshold View (abstract)
10:20
Absolute Prohibitions as Logoi-Constraints: an Anscombean Account of Just Deliberation (abstract)
11:00-11:25Coffee Break
11:30-13:25 Session B4: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Consciousness and Phenomenal Character
11:30
Phenomenal Knowledge First (abstract)
12:10
Relations Without Relata? Metaphysical Phenomenal Structuralism and the Lonely Experience Argument (abstract)
12:50
Phenomenal Schema: Grasping What It Feels like Without Feeling It (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session B4b: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Cognitive Science
11:30
Curb Your (Brain-Model Alignment) Enthusiasm (abstract)
12:10
The Many Faces of the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session C4: Philosophy of Science: Scientific Representation and Conceptual Engineering
11:30
What'S Wrong with the Semantic Conception of Theories (abstract)
12:10
Model-Based Semantics and Conceptual Engineering (abstract)
12:50
Forward-Looking Concept Functions and Conceptual Engineering (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session E4: Epistemology: Expressing Attitudes
11:30
Expressing Suspension of Belief (abstract)
12:10
“Because” and Epistemic Reasons (abstract)
12:50
Williefs: What We Want but Fail to Believe (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session GK: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Massimiliano Carrara

11:30
Varieties of Neutrality in Logic, Varieties of Neutral Logics (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session H3: History of Philosophy: Logical Empiricism and Naturalism
11:30
A Problem for Davidson'S Non-Reductive Naturalism (abstract)
12:10
The Concepts of Self in Logical Empricism and the Arguments from Telepathy (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session L4: Philosophy of Language: Pragmatics and Epistemology; Linguistic Individuation

Honourable Mention: Ross Patrizio

11:30
Gricean Maxims as Epistemic Norms (abstract)
12:10
Pragmatic Acceptance and Conversational Tone (abstract)
12:50
Identities, Words, and Languages (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session M4: Metaphysics: Grounding
11:30
Is There Grounding Indeterminacy? Yes (abstract)
12:10
Should Groundhogs Be Qualitativists? (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session P4: Social and Political Philosophy: Discourse in the Public Sphere
11:30
From Expecting Deference to Engendering Understanding. Or How to handle the Epistemic Agency of the General Public (abstract)
12:10
Deliberative Journalism: a Defence (abstract)
12:50
Visual Arguments in Times of Postfactual Societies (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session R4: Philosophy of Religion: Metaphysical Issues
11:30
Ockham on Material Substances’ Persistence over Time: the Case of Resurrection (abstract)
12:10
Defending the Existence of Religious Artifacts from an Intentionalist Point of View (abstract)
12:50
What Kind of Kind Is Religion? (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session S4B: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Symposium

Symposium: Reconceptualizing Empathy: an Interdisciplinary Discussion of Empathy in Humans, Nonhuman Animals and AI Systems

11:30
Reconceptualizing Empathy: an Interdisciplinary Discussion of Empathy in Humans, Nonhuman Animals and AI Systems (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session S6E: Epistemology: Symposium

Symposium: New Directions in the Philosophy of Risk

11:30
New Directions in the Philosophy of Risk (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session T3: Ethics: Normativity
11:30
Creating Normativity and Responding to It: How Metaethical Constructivists Must and Can Have It Both Ways (abstract)
12:10
Normative Authority, Formal Normativity, and the Question of What to Do (abstract)
12:50
Weight Pluralism, Weight Monism, and the Functions of Normative Reasons (abstract)
13:30-14:55Lunch Break
15:00-16:55 Session B5: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Action
15:00
The Primacy of Guidance in the Metaphysics of Agency (abstract)
15:40
Transitivity Differences Between 'Because' and 'Cause‘ and Deviant Causal Chains (abstract)
16:20
Towards an Informational Theory of Reasons for Forward-Looking Action (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session C5: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
15:00
Multispecies and Epistemology: the Case of Messor Ibericus (abstract)
15:40
Towards a Realist Evolutionary Epistemology: Concerns from Contemporary Approaches to Evolutionary Theory (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E5: Epistemology: Ignorance and Scepticism
15:00
On Ignorance (abstract)
15:40
The Communicative Functions and the Normativity of Ignorance Attributions (abstract)
16:20
A Competence-First Epistemological Disjunctivism (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E5b: Epistemology: Reasons
15:00
On the Need for Appreciation (abstract)
15:40
Apparent Reasons for Genuine Rationality: a New Version of the Attraction Account (abstract)
16:20
Rational Regret as an Epistemic Tool: the Weight of Defeated Reasons (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session G4: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Historical Perspectives
15:00
Gauging Quantities: Hume’S Standard of Numerical Equality Revisited (abstract)
15:40
Weak Impredicativity and Frege’s Grundgesetze (abstract)
16:20
Legitimate Dissensus in Mathematical Practice (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session G4b: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Abstract and Arbitrary Objects
15:00
The Determinacy Challenge for Moderate Mathematical Realism (abstract)
15:40
Epistemic Challenges for Abstractionism. from Good Company to Generosity (abstract)
16:20
A Typed Theory of Arbitrary Objects (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session H4: History of Philosophy: Origins of Analytic Philosophy
15:00
A Critique of the Logical-Psychological Dualism in Frege’S Conception of Judgment (abstract)
15:40
Reason and Intuition: Louis Couturat and the French Spiritualist Tradition (abstract)
16:20
Old, Contemporary, and New Transparency: from Moore and Beyond. (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L5: Philosophy of Language: Logicality and Inferentialism

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Ana López Rodríguez

15:00
The Importance of Being Trivial: Common Ground’S Defeasibility and Language Logicality (abstract)
15:40
Carnap'S Information Paradox and Logicality (abstract)
16:20
Nonmonotonicity as a Critique of the Ideal of Neutrality (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session M5: Metaphysics: Metaphysics of Biology
15:00
Pregnancy as Agency (abstract)
15:40
Temporal Dynamism in Biological Organization: a New Argument for Real Time (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session P5: Social and Political Philosophy: Intergenerational Justice
15:00
Borrowing Earth: Inter- Vs. Intragenerational Justice (abstract)
15:40
My Descendants Are Strangers to Me. Why We Should Care About Some, but Not All, Future People (abstract)
16:20
Moral Contractualism and Potentially Future People (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session S5B: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Symposium

Symposium: Grounding Representational Content in Artificial Neural Networks

15:00
Grounding Representational Content in Artificial Neural Networks (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session T4: Ethics: Responsibility

Honourable Mention: Patricia Sánchez Oliva

15:00
Responsibility for Emotions (abstract)
15:40
Answerability and Emotional Closure (abstract)
16:20
Apologies and Responsibility (abstract)
17:00-17:25Coffee Break
17:30-19:25 Session B6: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Actions
17:30
The Planning Fallacy and the Agent’S Perspective (abstract)
18:10
Towards a Multidimensional Spectrum of Agency (abstract)
18:50
Mental Causation and Epistemic Agency (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session CK: Philosophy of Science: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Alyssa Ney

17:30
Disentangling John Wheeler’S Vision of Quantum Reality: the Participatory Universe, It-from-Bit, and Law Without Law (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session E6: Epistemology: Formal Epistemology: Rationality and Reasons
17:30
Gnosticism, Epistemic Bribes and the Myth of Full Belief (abstract)
18:10
Semantic Constraints on the Logic of Reasons from Hierarchical Conceptual Spaces (abstract)
18:50
Higher-Order Evidence in Non-Ideal Epistemology (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session G5: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Inferentialism and Abstraction
17:30
Logical Expressivism and First-Order Language (abstract)
18:10
Abstraction Principles, Generalised Identity, and Objecthood (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session H5: History of Philosophy: History of Metaphysics
17:30
Margaret Cavendish on Perception and Causation (abstract)
18:10
Bolzano on the Persistence of Substances (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session M6: Metaphysics: Artifacts and Virtual Objects
17:30
Authorship and Artifacts: the Case of Cumulative Artifacts (abstract)
18:10
Virtual Affordance Realism (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session P6: Social and Political Philosophy: Language in the Social Sphere
17:30
Strategic Use of Conversational Implicatures in Legal Discourse (abstract)
18:10
Deniability as a Superficial Kind (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session R5: Philosophy of Religion: Logic and Epistemology

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Monika Morkūnaitė

17:30
The Logic of Theistic Metaphysics (abstract)
18:10
A "Collective Turn" in Religious Epistemology (abstract)
17:30-19:25 Session T5: Ethics: Moral Scepticism and Abolitionism
17:30
The Futility of Moral Scepticism and the Cultural Evolution of Moral Certainties (abstract)
18:10
Is It Terrible to Abolish Morality?— Addressing Two Concerns About Moral Abolitionism (abstract)
Wednesday, August 26th

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09:00-10:55 Session A7: Aesthetics: Fiction and Narratives
09:00
Entering Vicious Perspectives in Fiction: Moral Character and First-Personal Understanding (abstract)
09:40
Perspectivist Philosophy and Narrative Point of View in Contemporary Television Series (abstract)
10:20
The Ontology of Narratives. an Enactivist Proposal for a New Artifactualist Account (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session C6: Philosophy of Science: Teleosemantics and Information

Honourable Mention: Minato Asari

09:00
Proper Functions as an Etiological Kind: Core and Modules (abstract)
09:40
Information-Theoretic Account of Misinformation (abstract)
10:20
The Dual Role of Symmetry in Content Determination (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session E7a: Epistemology: Metaphilosophy, Intuitions and Thought Experiments
09:00
“Problems First” in Metaphilosophy! (abstract)
09:40
On the Nature of Philosophical Intuitions: Against Loev’S Affectivism (abstract)
10:20
Re-Designing Thought Experiments: the Challenge from Experimental Philosophy (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session G6: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Logical Pluralism
09:00
(Don’T Fear) the Collapse (abstract)
09:40
Truth Pluralism, Designated Values, and the Riddles of Validity (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session L7: Philosophy of Language: Harmful Speech
09:00
Subordinating Speech Without Authority (abstract)
09:40
What Is Fear Speech? An Account in Terms of Emotional Fittingness and Manipulation (abstract)
10:20
Verbal Figleaves Generalized (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session M7: Metaphysics: Essence and Hyperintensionality
09:00
Non-Naturalism, Supervenience, and Essentialism About Modality (abstract)
09:40
Essentialism and Downward Essential Constraints (abstract)
10:20
Non-Representational Hyperintensional Metaphysics (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session M7b: Metaphysics: Open Questions
09:00
Multilocation Within the Framework of Theories of Location (abstract)
09:40
Why We Intuitively Perceive Truth as Valuable (abstract)
10:20
Natural Kind Pluralism (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session PK: Social and Political Philosophy: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Emanuela Ceva

09:00
The Architecture of Institutional Action (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session S7E: Epistemology: Symposium

Symposium: The Epistemic and the Zetetic: New Perspectives

09:00
The Epistemic and the Zetetic: New Perspectives (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dario Mortini
09:00-10:55 Session S7L: Philosophy of Language: Symposium

Symposium: Logical Expressivism and Semantic Inferentialism: Understanding its Past to Gain its Future

09:00
Logical Expressivism and Semantic Inferentialism: Understanding Its past to Gain Its Future (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session T6: Ethics: Moral Diversity
09:00
Non-Naturalism and Normative Symmetry (abstract)
09:40
A Guide to Reliable Extrapolation in Cross-Cultural Conceptual Ethics (abstract)
10:20
How Moral Disagreement Can Be Faultless Without Relativism (abstract)
11:00-11:25Coffee Break
11:30-13:25 Session A8: Aesthetics: Aesthetic Experience
11:30
The Aesthetics of Consciousness (abstract)
12:10
The Epistemic Value of Sad Music: Reflection as a Motivation to Listen to Sad Music (abstract)
12:50
Beyond the Text? Literature as a "Project for Imagination" (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session B7b: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Panpsychism and Consciousness
11:30
The Evolutionary Emergence of Consciousness: Neither Gradualist Puzzles nor Panpsychist Consequences (abstract)
12:10
Panmentalism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness (abstract)
12:50
A Posteriori Physicalism and an Epistemic Gap (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session C7: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Physics

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Marta Pedroni

11:30
The Centre of Momentum as a Privileged Frame: Towards a Primitive Conception of Motion (abstract)
12:10
The Location of Black Hole Singularities (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session EK: Epistemology: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Maria Lasonen (Subject to confirmation)

11:30
Feasibilist Inquiry (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session G7: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Commitment
11:30
Structural Ontological Commitment (abstract)
12:10
On the Neutrality of Formal Philosophical Theories (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session L8: Philosophy of Language: Metasemantics, meaning and overfitting
11:30
Generalism and Particularism About Predication (abstract)
12:10
Meaning Eliminativism and Dynamic Conventionalism: an Austin-Inspired Approach to Conceptual Dynamics and Conceptual Change (abstract)
12:50
Against the Quantificational Account of Generics: a Case Study in Overfitting and Heuristics. (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session L8B: Philosophy of Language. Pragmatics, Sex and Gender
11:30
A Dispositional Account of Sexual Consent (abstract)
12:10
What Does It Mean to Be „Babygirl”? (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session M8: Metaphysics: Properties
11:30
The Property-Inheritance Problem (abstract)
12:10
Analogy and Determination (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session M8b: Metaphysics: Complexity and Reduction
11:30
Three Birds with One Stone (or) How One Can Be a Reductionist, Emergentist and Realist About Chemical Bonds (abstract)
12:10
Complexity Without Metaphysics: a Pragmatist Interpretation for Scientific Pluralism (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session P7: Social and Political Philosophy: Liberty
11:30
Why Do We Need a Theory of Civil Disobedience for Non-Democratic Regimes? (abstract)
12:10
Do Vaccine Passports Interfere with Freedom or Increase It? the Problem of the Baseline for Comparison in Ethical Justification of the Public Health Policy (abstract)
12:50
What Can We Learn About Theories of Justice and Present-Day Populism from Triumph of the Will? (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session P7b: Social and Political Philosophy: Propaganda

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Levani Sikharulidze

11:30
Deepfakes and the Power of Propaganda (abstract)
12:10
Trusting Authoritarian Propaganda or Pretending to Trust It? (abstract)
11:30-13:25 Session T7: Ethics: Ethics and the Digital
11:30
Enhancing Self-Control with New Technologies: a Kantian Perspective (abstract)
12:10
Take Your AI Avatar to School Day: Academic Enhancement or a New Form of Plagiarism? (abstract)
13:30-14:55Lunch Break
15:00-16:55 Session AK: Aesthetics: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture: Elisabeth Schellekens

15:00
The Noetic Theory of Aesthetic Experience and Conceptual Mapping (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session B8: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Consciousness

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Jacopo Pallagrosi

15:00
Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (abstract)
15:40
The Acquaintance Trilemma: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Mental Qualities (abstract)
16:20
Reconsidering Neural Replacement Scenarios Clarifies the Commitments Biological Naturalism (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session C8: Philosophy of Science: Rationality, Values and Ethics
15:00
Is Scientific Rationality Moribund? Kitcher and Siegel on Scientific Rationality (abstract)
15:40
On the Futility of the Sisyphean Ideal of Science (abstract)
16:20
Philosophical Stances in Bioethics? (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E8: Epistemology: Inquiry I

Honourable Mention: Zofia Zacharova

15:00
Constitutive Norms of Inquiry (abstract)
15:40
Instrumental Reasons and the Aim of Inquiry (abstract)
16:20
Knowledge and the Inquisitive Inquirer (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E8b: Epistemology: The A Priori
15:00
Understanding as a Source of Epistemic Justification (abstract)
15:40
Proof, Cognition, and the a Priori (abstract)
16:20
Logical Disagreement, Ineliminable Perspective, and anti-Exceptionalism (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L9: Philosophy of Language: Lying, Misleading and Silence
15:00
When Asserting What One Believes to Be False Is Not Lying (abstract)
15:40
Silence as a Choice for Inclusive Language (abstract)
16:20
Gay Silence (abstract)
15:00-16:05 Session L9b: Philosophy of Language: Reference and Singular Thought
15:00
Reference, Conflicting Intentions, and the Madagascar Pr (abstract)
15:40
Relationism, Coordination, and the Limits of Congruence (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session M9: Metaphysics: Essence and Natural Kinds

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Milenko Lasnibat

15:00
Essence and Explantion-Based Justification (abstract)
15:40
Essence as Non-Entitative Forms (abstract)
16:20
Natural Kinds and Neural Networks (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session M9b: Metaphysics: Processualism and Emergentism
15:00
Value in the World: Perspectives from a. N. Whitehead’S Process Metaphysics (abstract)
15:40
Synchronic and Diachronic Composition: Towards a Unified View of Emergence (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session P8: Social and Political Philosophy: Philosophy of Mental Health
15:00
Mental Health as Capability: Towards a Positive Account (abstract)
15:40
Can Mental Suffering Justify Euthanasia? Understanding Types of Suffering in the Context of Physician Aid-in-Dying. (abstract)
16:20
Social Ontology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and a Challenge for Explanatory Pluralism (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session S9E: Epistemology: Symposium

Symposium: Perspectives and Explanatory Work. From Relativism to Frames

15:00
Perspectives and Explanatory Work. from Relativism to Frames (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session T8: Ethics: Consequentialism and Deontologism
15:00
Value Conservatism and the Preconditions of Agency (abstract)
15:40
Sellarsian Moral Inferentialism, Entitlement Preservation and the Moral “Ought” (abstract)
16:20
Truth in Suffering (abstract)
17:00-17:25Coffee Break
17:30-18:45 Session A9: Aesthetics: Meaning and Authenticity
17:30
Interpretive Authenticity and Electronic Versions (abstract)
18:10
Authentic Self-Creation Through the Encounter with Art (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session B9: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Extended Mind
17:30
From Extended Mind to Extended Person (abstract)
18:10
The Cognitive Power of Document Acts (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session B9B: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Imagination
17:30
The Primacy of Pretence - Defending a Distinction Between Pretence and Imagination (abstract)
18:10
Imagining Oneself in a Parallel World: the Role of Imagination in Dissociative Identity Disorder and Maladaptive Daydreaming (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session G9: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Logic and Science
17:30
Philosophical and Formal Abduction: a Comparative Study (abstract)
18:10
Quantum Propositions: the Logic of Quantum Logics Beyond Speech (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session G9b: Logic and Philosophical Mathematics: Times
17:30
{A Strong Completeness Theorem for the Branching Logic of Change in a System with Infinite Rules (abstract)
18:10
Temporal Parts and Non-Linear Time (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session H9: History of Philosophy: Wittgenstein
17:30
Beyond the Schism: Recovering a Convergence in the Later Wittgenstein and Later Carnap (abstract)
18:10
The Significance of Wittgenstein'S Remarks on Agreement (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session L10: Philosophy of Language: Derogatory Language
17:30
Reclamation and Polysemy in Pejorative Terms (abstract)
18:10
On Slurring: Defending a Conversational Implicature Theory of Slurs (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session M10: Metaphysics: Natural Language Ontology
17:30
Fragile Ships (abstract)
18:10
A Positionalist Alternative to the Notion of a Variable Embodiment (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session P9: Social and Political Philosophy: Political Normativity
17:30
“The Analytical Family in Dispute”: the Bobbio and Rawls Cases (abstract)
18:10
The Plurality of Political Normativity (abstract)
Thursday, August 27th

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09:00-10:55 Session A10: Aesthetics: Authorship and Creativity

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Erik Wöller

09:00
Creating Abstract Artefacts (abstract)
09:40
Author'S Authority (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session B10: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Ecological and Enactive Approaches to Mind
09:00
Perceptual Assemblages as an Enactive Ground of Scientific Knowledge (abstract)
09:40
Meaning as Final Causation in Ecological Psychology. Affordances, Functions, and Teleodynamic Organization (abstract)
10:20
Can Usage Account for the Modality of Information? (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session B10b: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Belief
09:00
On the Problems of the Liberal Dispositionalist Account of Belief (abstract)
09:40
The Nature of Belief: the a-B-C of Believing Within a Theory of Flexible Belief Construction (abstract)
10:20
Non-Propositional Beliefs and Why We Need Them (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session C10: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Honourable Mention: Vuk Kolarevic

Honourable Mention: Johannes Brinz

09:00
Assessing Deflationary Representationalism (abstract)
09:40
Does Formalising Psychological Theories Advance Scientific Understanding? (abstract)
10:20
What Are Neurocomputational Models (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session G10: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Non-Classical Logics
09:00
Determinateness and Its Limits (abstract)
09:40
A Classical Validity Theory Fully Expressible in Its Object Language (abstract)
10:20
Motivating Logics of Indicative Conditionals (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session G10b: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: New Challenges
09:00
What Practices Cannot Tell Us. A Problem for Aposteriorism About Mathematical Knowledge (abstract)
09:40
Towards an Epistemology of Artificial Mathematical Reasoning (abstract)
10:20
How Feminist Logic Transforms Logical Abductivism (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session L11: Philosophy of Language: Propositions I
09:00
Propositions and Their Truth Conditions (abstract)
09:40
Truth Conditions and Propositional Content: a Type/Token Approach (abstract)
10:20
Lewis'S Dilemma and Propositional Structure (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session MK: Metaphysics: Keynote Lecture

BioKoinos Keynote Lecture: Tuomas Tahko

09:00
Natural Kind Fundamentalism (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session P10: Social and Political Philosophy: Injustice
09:00
Standpoint Know-How (abstract)
09:40
A Recognition-First Analysis of Testimonial Injustice (abstract)
10:20
Self-Illness Ambiguity and Identity: the Role of Hermeneutical Resources (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session S10E: Epistemology: Symposium

Symposium: Inquiry in the Image of Epistemic Agency

09:00
Inquiry in the Image of Epistemic Agency (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session T10: Ethics: Blame and Forgiveness

Honourable Mention: Rachel Frenette

Honourable Mention: Nicola Zetti

09:00
Are There Degrees of Moral Responsibility? (abstract)
09:40
Full Excuses Negate Wrongdoing (abstract)
10:20
A Plea for Silent Forgiveness (abstract)
11:00-11:25Coffee Break
11:30-13:25 Session PL2: Plenary Lecture

Plenary Lecture: Catarina Dutilh-Novaes

11:30
The ‘Force of the Better Argument’ and the Limits of Discursive Rationality (abstract)
13:30-14:55Lunch Break
15:00-16:55 Session A12: Aesthetics: Ethical Issues
15:00
An Aesthetic Argument for Supererogatory Actions (abstract)
15:40
Equanimity and Aesthetic Experience (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session B11: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Artificial Intelligence
15:00
Cognitive Autonomy and AI Overreliance (abstract)
15:40
Defining Strategic LLM Deception (abstract)
16:20
Inferring the Presence (or Absence) of Consciousness in Artificial Systems (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session C11: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Biology
15:00
Against an Etiological Approach to Teratology: the Case of "Evolutionary Dead-Ends" (abstract)
15:40
Waismann’S Open Texture: the Many Faces of a Biological Mechanism Concept (abstract)
16:20
A Dispositional Account of Biological Agency (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E11: Epistemology: Limits and Problems of Inquiry
15:00
Knowledge Without Inquiry (abstract)
15:40
The Epistemic and Zetetic Irrationality of Incessant Checking in OCD (abstract)
16:20
Sycophancy as Defeater: a Tension in LLM-Assisted Inquiry (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session E11b: Epistemology: Formal Epistemology and Authority

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Francesco di Betta

15:00
Probability, Normality, and Learning from Experience (abstract)
15:40
The Stability-Conferring Role of Explanations (abstract)
16:20
The Autonomy Puzzle: a Preemptionist Solution (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session G11: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Truthmaker Semantics

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Niccolò Rossi

Honourable Mention: Pablo Valencia Equy

15:00
A Non-Boolean Semantics for First Degree Entailment (abstract)
15:40
A Truthmaker Semantics for Positive Free Logic (abstract)
16:20
Truthmaker Semantics for Epistemic Justification (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L12: Philosophy of Language: Misinterpretaton and Bullshit
15:00
Deliberate Misinterpretation (abstract)
15:40
The Pressure to Have Something to Say: on the Quality of Discourse (abstract)
16:20
The Limits of Intellectual-Vice Accounts of Bullshit (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session L12b: Philosophy of Language: Rule-following and Normativity
15:00
Rule-Following and Finitude (abstract)
15:40
Anscombe on 'Natural Unintelligibility' and the Normativity of Meaning (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session M11: Metaphysics: Hylomorphism and Essentialism
15:00
Constructive Hylomorphism (abstract)
15:40
Holistic Hylomorphism as a Solution to Kim’S Problem of Causal Overdetermination (abstract)
16:20
Why Essentialism Does Not Require Plenitude (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session P11: Social and Political Philosophy: Sex and Gender
15:00
The Affective Dimension of Misogyny (abstract)
15:40
Grey Areas of Sexual Violence: Consent to Sex in Long-Term Romantic Relationships (abstract)
16:20
Legal Gender as a Contextual Concept: Ameliorating Away the Real Gender Assumption (abstract)
15:00-16:55 Session P11b: Social and Political Philosophy: Historical Issues
15:00
Mythos as a Performative Utterance in Early Greek Epic (abstract)
15:40
Cugoano on Collective Obligation and Reparative Duties (abstract)
17:00-17:25Coffee Break
17:30-18:45 Session B12: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Inner Speech
17:30
The Puzzle of Talking to Oneself (abstract)
18:10
What Is Inner Speech? and What Does It Represent? (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session B12b: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Perception

Honourable Mention: Jonida Kodra

17:30
Control and Sense of Agency in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (abstract)
18:10
Experience and Judgment in Mind and World: Against Awareness Without Endorsement (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session C12: Philosophy of Science: Historical Sciences
17:30
Hacking’s Retroactive Redescriptions and Historical Methodology (abstract)
18:10
From Traces to Possibilities: Modal Reasoning and Plausibility in Historical Sciences (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session C12b: Philosophy of Science: Evidence
17:30
How Good Is Your Evidence of Mechanisms? a Framework for Its Assessment (abstract)
18:10
Anti-Ageing Medicines: an Alternative to the Alternatives (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session E12: Epistemology: Normativity
17:30
Epistemic Norms as Relational Duties (abstract)
18:10
Nobody Cares? Instrumentalism, Clutter Avoidance and Epistemic Proportionality (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session G12: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Convention and Adoption
17:30
Logical Consequence in Signalling Systems (abstract)
18:10
From Adoption to Abandonment: Can a Solution to the Adoption Problem Be Replicated? (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session M12: Metaphysics: Time

Honourable Mention: Florian Gatignon

17:30
Instantaneous Stages in Instantless Worlds (abstract)
18:10
Is Temporal Existence a Relational Way of Being? (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session P12: Social and Political Philosophy: Ethical Issues

Honourable Mention: Oskari Sivula

17:30
Pure Risk and Harm (abstract)
18:10
Moral Enhancement as Moral Progress? (abstract)
17:30-18:45 Session T12: Ethics: Moral Perception
17:30
Loving Attention and Moral Vision: Iris Murdoch and the Grammar of Ethical Attention (abstract)
18:10
Moral Perception Without Thick Ethical Concepts (abstract)
20:00-22:30Cocktail Dinner
Friday, August 28th

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09:00-10:55 Session B13: Philosophy of Mind and Action: Memory

Honourable Mention: Elena Ostos

Honourable Mention: Juan F. Álvarez and Lou Thomine

09:00
A Process Metaphysics of Memory and Consciousness (abstract)
09:40
From Generic to Generalised Remembering (abstract)
10:20
A Normative Account of Forgetting (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session C13: Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychiatry
09:00
The Functional Ambivalence of Mental Symptoms: Insights from Restrictive Eating and Other Clinical Phenomena (abstract)
09:40
From Statistical Deviation to Biological Dysfunction: a Critique of the Biostatistical Definition of Disease (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session E13: Epistemology: Inquiry II
09:00
Rational Uncertainty and Epistemic Obligations to Inquire (abstract)
09:40
Incoherence in Zetetic and Epistemic Normativity (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session E13b: Epistemology: Practical Knowledge and Self-Knowledge
09:00
Know-How-First View and Tasks (abstract)
09:40
The Epistemology of Lived Experience (abstract)
10:20
Objectivity and Self-Knowledge (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session G13: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics: Concepts and Applicability
09:00
A Game of Counterexamples: Conceptual Analysis as Definitional Revision (abstract)
09:40
The Problem of Open Texture in Mathematics: How Rigour Can Be Restored by Blocking out Intuition (abstract)
10:20
From Miracle to Method: Rethinking Wigner’S Applicability Problem (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session H13: History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy
09:00
Relations in Plato: a New Line on a Long-Lasting Problem (abstract)
09:40
Plato'S Forms: Neither Universals nor Particulars (abstract)
10:20
Aristotle’S Conception of Rationality: Additive, Not Transformative (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session M13: Metaphysics: Presentism and Relativistic Time

Honourable Mention: Paolo Lattanzi

09:00
Presentism Precludes Explanation (abstract)
09:40
Relativistic Presentism (abstract)
10:20
A Dynamic Tense-Logical Model for Relativistic Time (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session M13b: Metaphysics: Modality and Powers
09:00
Modal Distributional Properties (abstract)
09:40
The Challenge of Alien Possibilities for Potentialism (abstract)
10:20
Revelation, Phenomenal Powers and Powerful Qualities (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session P13: Social and Political Philosophy: Theory of Punishment
09:00
When Justice Becomes Welfare: the “Cobra Effect” and the Normative Limits of Non-Punitive Criminal Justice (abstract)
09:40
Punished Twice? Legal Accountability and the Legitimacy of Social Punishment (abstract)
10:20
Social Punishment as a Right to Do Wrong (abstract)
09:00-10:55 Session T13: Ethics: Emotions, Feelings and Practices

Early-Career Scholar Prize: Michael Vollmer

09:00
A Contrastive Account of Fittingness (abstract)
09:40
Love as a Practice (abstract)
10:20
Discrimination and Social Meaning: Revisited (abstract)
11:00-11:25Coffee Break
11:30-13:25 Session PL3: Plenary Lecture

Dialectica Lecture: Sven Rosenkranz

11:30
On What There Presently Is (abstract)