OFA’14 – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The fourteenth edition of the Oficina de Filosofia Analítica (OFA) will take place in Braga, on November 7th 2025, at the University of Minho, hosted by the Center for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), a research unit of the School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences (ELACH).
OFA is a graduate workshop in #analytic #philosophy (broadly construed), aimed at providing a stimulating environment for graduate students and young researchers (i.e., having obtained their PhD in the last 3 years) in the #Portuguese philosophical community (i.e., either Portuguese or based in Portugal). The workshop is an initiative of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (SPFA), also supported by the Portuguese Society of Philosophy (SPF), with its first edition taking place in 2006.
We invite submissions from all graduate students and young researchers who fulfill the criteria listed above. The working languages of the workshop are Portuguese and English. We invite submissions in the various areas of analytic philosophy including, but not limited to:
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Critical Philosophy of Race
Epistemology
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
We particularly encourage submissions by philosophers from groups currently underrepresented in the discipline.
Papers should have no more than 500 words (excluding references), be prepared for blind review and in .pdf format. Submit them to oficinadefilosofiaanalitica@gmail.com by July 20th 2025, with the subject "Submission OFA 14". Information about the author should be in the body of the e-mail and include: author's name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by September 15th 2025.
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail oficinadefilosofiaanalitica@gmail.com.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
I am a philosopher who works on philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.
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Words can be appropriated for the better and their meaning can change over time. But words can also be stolen. This happens when useful words get taken up by bad actors in ways that that distort their meaning, so that we can no longer use them to think and communicate. It’s happening with “efficiency”, “merit”, and many others. How does this happen and what can we do about it? Nico Orlandi and I wrote about it here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-are-stolen/ #politics #musk #philosophy #language
@pjw You could consider scholar.social.
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My server, fediphilosophy, is sadly shutting down. So I have to migrate. Any server suggestions?
I'm a philosopher, academic, leftist, living in Israel/Palestine (but American)
I post a lot of Israel/Palestine politics from a left/not-anarchist-but-adjacent angle, but also some academic stuff and philosophy stuff - I mainly research perception, metaethics, and ethics. And almost exclusively post in English.
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In an academic job interview, what are the best questions to ask about teaching?
A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.
I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses
@HugoHeagren I find Travis hard to read.
@RareBird15 I think that you might be missing --citeproc from the pandoc command. Does it work if you add it?
@felwert Here it is: https://gist.github.com/twsh/6e18354c5323a847486c70779117f0c2
The idea is that my Markdown has things like:
* 2013, PhD Philosophy, University of St Andrews
And the filter turns that in to:
\cventry{2013}{PhD Philosophy}{University of St Andrews}{}{}{}
It does that by splitting on commas, and then inserting some raw LaTeX.
I use the default Pandoc template with the moderncv class including my information in the header.
I'm using the version of moderncv that you get if you install texlive on Ubuntu 24.04.
@pjw My first thought about this is that I would conclude that the theory doesn't typically cause its holders to have bad ethical beliefs. That seems like a virtue of a theory. I'm not sure that it's a (strong) epistemic reason in favour of it.
I have a question for the philosophers, ethicists, and adjacent people reading this.
Suppose you discovered that all of the people you most ethically admire in the world shared the same metaethical view.
Would you take this as a reason, even a small one, in favor of that metaethical view?
If yes, would you take this to be an *epistemic* reason?
I admit I can't sort out for myself what to think about this, and don't know of any work on it.
@felwert I had a similar wish. I didn't find anything great. I did experiment a bit with my own filter so that I could write moderncv compatible LaTeX from a Markdown source. I have something that works OK for my CV, which I could share. I'm also interested in other responses that you get.
Koch, Steffen. n.d. ‘Babbling Stochastic Parrots? A Kripkean Argument for Reference in Large Language Models’. Philosophy of AI. Accessed 2 June 2025. https://philarchive.org/rec/KOCBSP.
My department has just opened a call for a professor in Philosophy (area of philosophical expertise pretty much open).
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/professor-of-philosophy_822386/
Is there a guide to contemporary vanilla #rstats without tidyverse? Thanks :boost_requested:
My research group in Montreal is hiring a postdoctoral fellow!
Very interdisciplinary, focus on bioethics
:boost_requested: Circulate widely!
Details: https://www.translationalethics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAR2025-PDF-Ad-P2-Revised.pdf
Nefdt, Ryan M. 2023. ‘Are Machines Radically Contextualist?’ Mind & Language 38 (3): 750–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12429.