Workshop: Philosophy of Language

21. Juli 2025, 10:00 Uhr

You are cordially invited to the Hamburg Philosophy of Language Workshop 2025, which will take place July 21–22, 2025.

To register, please email emanuel.viebahn@uni-hamburg.de by July 16. You are also welcome to attend if you can’t make it to all of the talks. 

Venue: Philturm, Room A 12006

Organisers: Bahadir Eker, Alex Radulescu and Emanuel Viebahn

Funded by the University of Hamburg and the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie – GAP. 

Provisional Schedule

July 21, 2025

10.00–11.15: Zoe Walker: Jokes, Trivialization and the Common Ground

11.45–13.00: Louis Kohlmann & Emanuel Viebahn: Coining a slur: The pejoration of “fake news”

14.30–15.45: Eliot Michaelson: Meaning Restrictions

16.15–17.30: Indrek Reiland: Conversational Scoreboards: Semantics, Pragmatics, or Both?

July 22, 2025

10.00–11.15: Bahadir Eker: The Myth of Empty Names

11.45–13.00: Alex Radulescu & Emanuel Viebahn: Art, language, and the limits of intentionalism

14.30–15.45: Lucy McDonald: Normativity and Speech

16.15–17.30: Emanuel Viebahn: Truth and commitment in fiction