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"Empirical Methods of Linguistics in Philosophy", Dortmund (Germany), 13-14 March 2014 [Deadline: 1 Dec 2013]

2nd CfP Workshop
Empirical Methods of Linguistics in Philosophy

International Workshop on Empirical Methods of Linguistics in Philosophy

13-14 March 2014, TU Dortmund University (Germany)

The "experimental philosophy" movement has recently gained some momentum in the 
philosophical community. The movement?s basic idea is to introduce experimental 
methods (other than thought experiments) or, more broadly conceived, empirical 
methods to philosophy. Appropriated from the experimental paradigm in 
psychology, the method most often employed in experimental philosophy arguably 
is the use of questionnaires. Using experimental studies of this kind in 
philosophy may serve a number of purposes. A prominent one is to supplement the 
more traditional tools of analytic philosophy which are used in conceptual 
analyses of philosophically interesting terms. However, there is also a variety 
of other (at least partially) empirical methods in linguistics, e.g. corpus 
analysis, etymology, discourse analysis or field studies, which could also be 
used for a variety of similar purposes. The guiding questions of the workshop 
are: Which empirical methods from linguistics have been applied in philosophy 
already? To which end? Where and how could such methods be applied? What are 
the potential benefits, what are the limits of their application?

The workshop brings together researchers who implement empirical methods from 
linguistics in philosophical research. Although the focus of the workshop is on 
the use of such methods in philosophy, both philosophers and linguists will be 
involved. Each of the workshop sessions will open with a paper demonstrating 
the application of a specific linguistic method in philosophy. This paper will 
be followed by two peer commentaries, one by a linguist, the other by a 
philosopher.

The primary purpose of the workshop is exploratory: The potential applications, 
the benefits and the limits of linguistic methods in philosophy stand in need 
of clarification. The secondary purpose is to create a networking opportunity 
for researchers who employ (and those who intend to employ) empirical methods 
from linguistics in philosophy.

Call for Papers

At this stage, we are looking for philosophers or linguists interested in 
contributing papers to open the workshop sessions (peer reviews will be 
solicited at a later stage).

We invite contributions from philosophers or linguists in all stages of their 
career. Please send us an abstract of a paper suitable for a presentation of 30 
to 40 minutes. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be submitted in 
.pdf,.doc or .rtf format. In order to facilitate blind reviewing, the abstract 
should be anonymous. But please let us have your name, affiliation and contact 
details in the cover email. Abstracts should be e-mailed to Roland.Bluhm [at] 
tu-dortmund.de. Receipt of submission will be confirmed by e-mail.

The extended deadline for receipt of submissions is 1st December 2013. We will 
notify authors of the decision regarding their papers by the 15th of December.

Organiser

For any further questions, please contact the workshop organiser, Roland Bluhm, 
via Roland.Bluhm [at] tu-dortmund.de.

Call for papers at PhilEvents: http://philevents.org/event/show/11886.

The workshop at PhilEvents: http://philevents.org/event/show/11885.