12-14 May 2017
Lodz, Poland
The Fifth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang 2017), University of Lodz (Poland), 12-14 May 2017 The Department of English and General Linguistics at University of Lodz announces the Fifth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (http://filologia.uni.lodz.pl/philang/) As in previous years, the principal aim of our Conference is to bring together philosophers, linguists and logicians. PhiLang2017 will be concerned with "objects of inquiry" (or on "what there is") in language, philosophy, logic, argumentation theory, and literature. We also invite contributions investigating the general and more specific relations between philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and philosophy of mind. Other possible areas of inquiry include (the list is not exhaustive): - Philosophical background of semantic and pragmatic theories - Metaphilosophy and philosophy of language - Philosophical and linguistic background of argumentation theory The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as plenary speakers: Brendan S. Gillon (McGill University) Peter Pagin (Stockholm University) Göran Rossholm (Stockholm University) Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin) Maciej Witek (University of Szczecin) Selected conference proceedings will be published in monographic volumes in the new series of Peter Lang "Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics". Abstracts of papers, in MS Word format, of max. 300 words (followed by 5-7 key terms) should be forwarded by e-mail to: philang2017@uni.lodz.pl <javascript:;> Deadline for submission is 30 November 2016. Presentations should last maximum 30 minutes (including discussion and questions). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2017. Further details (including information on the conference fee) will be provided in the second circular. Organizing committee: Prof. dr Piotr Stalmaszczyk Dr Martin Hinton, Ms Aleksandra Majdzinska, Dr Wiktor Pskit, Mr Ryszard Rasinski, Department of English and General Linguistics, University of Lodz http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZJAiO? -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam