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20.-21. October 2022. The Acquaintance Inference – Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Konstanz  (with Natasha Korotkova).

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The proposed interdisciplinary confernce (linguistics and philosophy), to take place at the University of Konstanz on October 20-21, 2022, is devoted to the Acquaintance Inference, a phenomenon whereby utterances with certain expressions are only felicitous when the speaker has firsthand experience with the object of the predication. For example, we typically call an item “tasty” "or beautiful"  only if we have tried or seen/heard it. This fact raises questions about (a) the epistemological and metaphysical source of the Acquaintance Inference, (b) the nature of linguistic expressions that give rise to it, and (c) properties of such discourses more broadly. Several recent accounts, developed within linguistics and philosophy, address those questions. Each account has important consequences as to how we theorize about knowledge, evidence and speech acts in relation to predicates like “tasty” or "beautiful". However, rarely have been both philosophical and linguistic aspects of the problem examined together as a whole. The proposed conference seeks to redress this by bringing together leading experts on the topic from both disciplines. Its goal is to foster a dialogue that will reconcile different approaches and that will help better understand the acquaintance phenomenon at the intersection of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, formal semantics and formal pragmatics. 

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Speakers: 

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Pranav Anand (Linguistics Department, University of Santa Cruz)

Jochen Briesen (Philosophy Department, University of Konstanz/FU Berlin)

Fabrizio Cariani (Philosophy Department, University of Maryland)

Alexander Dinges (Philosophy Department, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) [cancelled]

Katharina Felka (Philosophy Department, University of Graz)

Elsi Kaiser (Linguistics Department, University of Southern California)

Christopher Kennedy (Linguistics Department, University of Chicago)

Natasha Korotkova (Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz)

Dilip Ninan (Philosophy Department, Tufts University)

Hazel Pearson (Linguistics Department, Queen Mary University of London)

Malte Willer (Philosophy Department, University of Chicago)

Julia Zakkou (Philosophy Department, University of Bielefeld) [cancelled]

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Program & Abstracts: 

https://natasha-korotkova.github.io/ai2022-program.html

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Program: pdf-file 

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Poster/Program: pdf-file

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Supported by: German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Contact: jochen[dot]briesen[at]uni-konstanz[dot]de

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Previous:

 

10/ 2022. Aesthetic Testimony – Systematic and historical perspectives. Conference, University of Konstanz (with Achim Vesper). More information: here.

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08/2022 Art, Knowledge and Art Mediation. Symposium. documenta 15, Kassel (with Jelena Toopeekoff). More information: here.

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11/2019  Talking Morality – Moral Terms, Slurs, and Hybrid Expressvism. Workshop, University of Konstanz (with Stefan Fischer)

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06/2017  Kant and the Power of Imagination. Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin (with Dina Emundts) 

 

07/2015  Epistemic Consequentialism. Conference, University of Konstanz (with Anna-Maria Eder) 

 

2014–2016  Early Lunch Philosophy, Lecture Series, University of Konstanz (with Verena Wagner)

 

06/2013  Beauty is valid only for human beings – Kant's Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgment. Workshop, University of Konstanz (zusammen mit Dina Emundts)

 

12/2012  Im Zweifel für den Zweifel? – Neue Arbeiten zum Skeptizismus. Conference, University of Konstanz

 

05/2012  A Passion for Reason, Kant-Workshop with Paul Guyer (Brown University), University of Konstanz (zusammen mit Dina Emundts)