The workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value will take place at the University of Barcelona & University Pompeu Fabra on November 6-7th, 2025. We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language.
PROGRAM:
DAY 1: Seminari de Filosofia (Room 4100), Facultat de Filosofia, University of Barcelona
11:45-12:00 Welcome
12:00-12:45 Suchitra Srivastava (University of Burdwan): Emotionally Marked Acquaintance: Affective Authority and the Politics of First-Handness (online)
14:45-15:30 Nicolás Lo Guercio (CONICET-IFF): The acquaintance inference: the epistemic view revisited
15:30-16:15 Noa Buckle (University of Toronto): Failing to Find (online)
16:45-18:00 Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University): Refining "find": Experience, factivity, categorical judgment
18:00-18:45 Nate Charlow (University of Toronto): Against Indeterminacy-Based Theories of Acquaintance
DAY 2: Room 52.121, Roc Boronat Building, Poblenou Campus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10:45-11:30 Elin McCready (ICREA-UAB): Somatic Acquaintance
11:30-12:00 Coffee break offered by UPF
12:00-12:45 Jiayi Zhou (University of Connecticut): A Scale of Acquaintance Inferences in Mandarin Intensifiers
14:45-15:30 Natalia Karczewska (Warsaw University): Acquaintance as a norm for evaluative speech acts
15:30-16:15 Samuel Cantor (UT Austin): Evidentially expressive adjectives
16:15-16:30 Coffee break offered by UB
16:45-18:00 Nils Franzén (Umeå University): On the experience requirement of certain mental states
If you are interested in attending, please register here.
Program chair & organization:
Andrés Soria Ruiz (Universitat de Barcelona)
Local organization
Andrés Soria Ruiz, Teresa Marques, Lucía González Arias (U. Barcelona)
Isidora Stojanovic, Morgan Moyer, Michelle Stankovic (U. Pompeu Fabra)
Advisory board:
Teresa Marques (Universitat de Barcelona)
Isidora Stojanovic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
This workshop is generously funded by ERC Advanced Grant 'Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality' (GA nº 101142133, PI: Isidora Stojanovic), research project 'New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations' (PID2023-150569NB-I00; PI: Teresa Marques), the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona. All enquiries should be addressed at asoriaruiz@ub.edu.
