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PROGRAMME
DAY I
9:00 Conference Opening + Coffee
9:30 – 10:30 David Plunkett (Dartmouth College): Reflections on Some Varieties of Metalinguistic Negotiation
10:30 – 11:30 Philippe de Brabanter & Bruno Leclercq (U. Bruxelles, U. Liège): From semantic deference to semantic externalism to a classification of disagreements
11:30 – 12:30 Poppy Mankowitz (U. Bristol): Metalinguistic mechanisms
—- LUNCH BREAK —-
14:00 – 15:00 Pedro Abreu (NOVA Lisboa): The borders and objects of metalinguistic disagreement
15:00 – 16:00 Antonin Thuns (U. Bruxelles): Externalistic functions rather than externalistic contents: The case for a (moderately) anti-realist and (radically) naturalistic account of meaning and metalinguistic disagreement
—- COFFEE BREAK —-
16:30 – 17:30 Matt Shields (Wake Forest U. & UC Dublin): Making conceptual disputes explicit [online]
17:30 – 18:30 Delia Belleri (U. Lisboa): Conceptual engineering, representational skepticism, and defeaters [online]
DAY II
(Coffee available outside the venue starting from 9:00)
9:30 – 10:30 Sarah Sawyer (U. Sussex): External consraints on metalinguistic disagreement in the context of conceptual engineering
10:30 – 11:30 Mark Pinder (Open U.): Semantic amelioration as a cause for optimism about conceptual engineering
11:30 – 12:30 Cyrill Mamin (U. Jena): Realism and social kinds in conceptual amelioration
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14:00 – 15:00 Alexander Kocurek (Cornell U.): Verbal disagreement and semantic plans
15:00 – 16:00 Joanna Odrowaz-Sypniewska (U. Warsaw): Negotiating boundaries
—- COFFEE BREAK —-
16:30 – 17:30 Erich Rast (NOVA Lisboa): Discussing word meaning: The question of internalism vs. externalism
17:30 – 18:30 Mark Richard (Harvard U.): Conceptual engineering: Be careful what you wish for [online]
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER at Marisqueira Valbom, Av. Conde Valbom 114 (maps link)