New approaches to Evaluative Discourse

Welcome to a conference in Philosophy: New approaches to Evaluative Discourse. 

Schedule

Room: HUM. D. 220 

Monday the 10th

10.00 – 11.10 Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh) – The descriptive and the absolute conception

11.30 – 12.40 Edward Schwartz (Berkeley) – Thick as thin

Lunch

14.00 – 15.10 Alice Damirjian (Stockholm) – The social significance of slang

15.30 – 16.40 Matteo Colombo (Tilburg) – In the thick of it

Conference Dinner

Tuesday the 11th

10.00 – 11.10 Malte Willer (Chicago) – Grounding acquaintance inferences

11.30 – 12.40 Rachel Maden (Yale) – An absolute epistemology of subjectivity

Lunch

14.00 – 15.10 Dilip Ninan (Tufts) – Lightweight expressivism about taste

15.30 – 16.40 Anouch Bourmayan (Sorbonne) – Axiologically thick terms

Wednesday the 12th

09.00-10-10 Matt Bedke (UBC) – Explaining the normative mode of presentation

10.30-11.40 Isidora Stojanovic (Jean Nicod) – Asymmetric inference patterns over value scales: the interplay between semantics and pragmatics

Organizer

Nils Franzén