Philosophy's EXPERIMENTAL TURN and the challenge from ordinary language

Berlin, June 22–24, 2022

Conference Topic and Goals

This conference will bring together philosophers working in the ordinary language tradition, experimental philosophers, and empirically and historically-informed linguists, psychologists, and legal theorists to study how people use and interpret ordinary language in a variety of real-world contexts. The event seeks to acquire a philosophically and empirically informed understanding of the following issues:

how ordinary language philosophy poses challenges to the experimental investigation of meaning;
how insights from ordinary language philosophy can improve the ecological validity of experimental philosophy of language;
how, conversely, methods and findings from experimental philosophy of language can help develop theory and practice of ordinary language philosophy;
how empirical investigation can help us understand and pursue intentionally normative enterprises such as metalinguistic negotiation and conceptual engineering.

Organizers

Eugen Fischer (East Anglia)

Nat Hansen (Reading)

Venue

Freie Universität Berlin, International Research Center at 34 Grunewald Straße

Speakers

Avner Baz (Tufts)

Leda Berio (Bochum)

Fenna Blom (Tilburg)

Siobhan Chapman (Liverpool)

Matteo Colombo (Tilburg)

Rachel Dudley (Central European University)