Barcelona (Spain) and online, 2-4 May 2023. The Barcelona Workshop has been the signature event of the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy for over 20 years. It is a small-format conference, with no parallel sessions, that aims to provide ample space for discussion among participants.

LOGOS, Barcelona

Sala de juntes (& Online)
Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain

Speakers/

Universidad de Murcia
Institut Jean Nicod
Temple University
Trinity University
Open University (UK)

Organisers/

Universitat de Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
Università degli Studi di Genova

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME/

Tuesday, 2 May 2023

10.00 Carola Barbero (Turin), “Lost in (Literature’s) Translation”

11.00 Julia Langkau (Geneva), “Life and Literary Fiction”

12.00 Coffee

12.30 Susan L. Feagin (Temple), “Artistic Functionality”

13.30 Lunch break

15.30 Bruno Leclercq & Louis Rouillé (Liège), “When Fictive Objects are Visualized: A Challenge for Descriptive Theories”

16.30 Merel Semeijn (Groningen/Institut Nicod), “Export of Fictional Truth and Analogical Reasoning”

17.30 Elisa Paganini (Milan), “Fiction and Immorality”

Wednesday, 3 May 2023

9.30 Andrew Kania (Trinity), “The Meaning of Musical Works and Its Relation to Their Authentic Performance”

10.30 Patrick Keating (Trinity), “Light and Time in the Hollywood Film Noir”

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Dana LaCourse Munteanu (Ohio State), “Affects for Shock or for Prosocial Behavior? What Journalists can Learn from Aristotle and Novelists”

13.00 María José Alcaraz León (Murcia), “Autofiction in Film and Theatre”

14.00 Lunch break

15.30 Amber Ross (Florida), “Silent Narratives—Searching for the Fundamentals of Narratives Beneath Their Linguistic Form”

16.30 Mario Slugan (Queen Mary), “Potential Mechanisms Behind the Hypothesis that Fiction Influences Real-life Beliefs”

17.30 Vanessa Brassey (KCL), “The Pictorial Narrator”

Thursday, 4 May 2023

10.00 Sean Clancy (East China Normal), “Imaginative Resistance as a Methodological Hazard”

11.00 Chiara Brozzo (Barcelona/Birmingham), “On the Proper Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Design”

12.00 Coffee

12.30 Jérôme Dokic (Institut Nicod), “Disinterestedness and the Sublime”

13.30 Lunch break

15.30 Gerard Vilar (Autònoma Barcelona), “Cognitivism and Artistic Research of the Future”

16.30 Jacopo Frascaroli (York), “Engineers of the Human Soul: The Moral Responsibility of Artists and Designers”

17.30 Derek Matravers (Open University), “On the Confusion Between Being a Representation and Being a Fictional Representation”

ACCESSIBILITY/

The conference will be held at the University of Barcelona, in Barcelona (Spain), as well as online. The in-person conference venue will be wheelchair-accessible and wheelchair-accessible facilities will be available. Service animals are welcome. We regret not being able to offer nearby disabled parking or a hearing loop. Upon request, however, we can use microphones and provide a quiet room. More generally, we will do our best to improve accessibility, both online and in-person, including for caregivers, and we encourage you to check the relevant boxes on the registration form to discuss how we can do so.

Register/

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