Krakow 30 September - 3 October 2021

30 September: Get-together [recomended arrival]
1-3 October: Conference [1 October; starts at 9:00]

This conference aims to bring together scholars from contemporary analytic philosophy and legal theory, working on connected issues with the hope of allowing for a lively interchange of ideas across those disciplines.
The themes we would like to particularly explore are: metaphysics of law, social ontology, nature of normativity, pragmatics of legal language, philosophy of language etc. We encourage submissions from both philosophers and legal theorists.

Keynote Speakers:
David Enoch (Jerusalem)
Timothy Endicott (Oxford)
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Francois Recanati (Jean Nicod, Paris)
Stephen Neale (CUNY)

Invited Speakers
Luka Burazin (Zagreb)
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University)
Francesca Poggi (Milan)
Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco  (Surrey)

Venue:
The conference will be held in Hotel Wolski conference center – located in a quiet forest, just 15 minutes away from central Krakow.

Registration:
To register for the conference, please use Evenbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/analytic-philosophy-meets-legal-theory-krakow-2021-tickets-167878151069

The conference will take place at the Wolski Hotel in Krakow. If you are going to stay there during the conference (which is the default and strongly recommended option for people from outside Krakow) you need to go to the following page:

https://booking.profitroom.com/en/wolskidomgoscinny/details/offer/200182?code=KRAKOW2021&currency=PLN

There you will able to buy the package that best suits you: either a place in double or a triple room or a single room for yourself. The code for reservations should activate automatically, but just in case the system demands this code from you it is: “krakow2021”.

IMPORTANT NOTE: the system will show you that you are buying 2 places, but this is only a bug of the hotel reservation system: you will buy one place by clicking on the relevant package. So, if you want to buy two places you need to go through the procedure twice. If you want to buy a single room then just change the number of people to one (the price is the same) at the top of the page.
If you want to stay in a double or triple room and wish to share your room with someone who is buying their package separately then just tick “I have comment” section during the booking process and write a comment about your room-sharing preferences there (it is the Hotel which is responsible for room allocation, not the organizers).

The deadline for registration is: 13.09.2021

Programme:

The current, work-in-progress, version of the programme can be found HERE

Book of abstracts is HERE

Practical information can be found HERE

Organizers:
The conference is organized by Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy. The event is part of the project “Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network”, which includes Insitut Jean Nicod, Surrey Univeristy, University of Milan, Zagreb University along with the Jagiellonian University Krakow.
The local organizing team are:
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
Krzysztof Poslajko
Pawel Banas
Iza Skoczen
Adam Dyrda

Please send all inquiries to Krzysztof Poslajko (krzysztof.poslajko[at]uj.edu.pl)

This project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under Grant No. PPI/APM/2018/1/00022

Untruth and deception have always been a topic of great interest to philosophers, as well as being of obviously central importance to jurists and legal theorists. Still, recent years have seen a stark increase of interest in concepts and theories of deceptive and misleading utterances. Old definitions are being reconsidered and novel topics emerge, such as the variety of non-assertive acts that might or might not be characterized as lies (questions, implicatures, explanations etc.) or, more puzzlingly still, the possibility of lying or misleading utterances produced by non-human, artificial agents. Moreover, theoretical debates are being supported with an unprecedented wave of empirical research.

These new developments are the main theme of the workshop “Deceptive Speech Acts in Philosophy and Law” organized by the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy. The workshop will take place in Kraków, on October 5-6th. See the program below. The workshop is taking place in person, but it's possible to listen to the talks and submit questions for the Q&A online. To receive the link for the online transmission, please register at leopold.hess@uj.edu.pl.

Venue: Larisch Palace, 12 Bracka Street, room 203.

All times are local (GMT+2)

Thursday, October 5^th

Friday, October 6th

This research was funded by the Priority Research Area Heritage under the program Excellence Initiative – Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Law, Language, Philosophy Research Network is happy to invite young scholars, including graduate students, to participate in the Law, Language and Philosophy Summer School, to be held in Dubrovnik (Croatia) at the Inter University Centre, 16-21 August 2021.

Since this edition of Summer School had to be re-scheduled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic regulations, priority is given to last year's applicants.

Still, however, we have ca. 10 open slots for new participants. This call is open to everyone interested in the intersection of philosophy of law/philosophy of mind and language/social ontology. Our preference, however, is for highly motivated students and young scholars.

In order to apply, please send your CV and a short project description (research interests, dissertation abstract, paper draft etc) to pawel.banas@uj.edu.pl.

Visit also: https://sites.google.com/view/llprn-summer-school-2021/about

The aim of the summer school is to offer a number of courses to highly motivated students and young scholars working at the intersection of legal theory and analytic philosophy. Our teachers include:

    Luka Burazin (Zagreb)
    Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Surrey)
    Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Paris)
    Kenneth M. Ehrenberg (Surrey)
    Mario Krešić (Zagreb)
    Ira K. Lindsay (Surrey)
    Stephen Neale (New York/London)
    Francesca Poggi (Milan)
    Krzysztof Posłajko (Krakow)
    Izabela Skoczeń (Krakow)

Our courses will be dovoted to i.a. artifact theory of law; connections between philosophy of language/philosophy of mind/social ontology and law; experimental philosophy of law and language; theories of interpretation.

Due to generous funding by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange [International Academic Partnerships Programme 0001/2018], Law, Language and Philosophy Summer School participants are expected to cover only their travel, accommodation and catering costs. The estimated costs of six nights full board at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik are 400-500 EUR (https://www.iuc.hr/dormitory.php).

For additional information please contact school directors:

Luka Burazin (University of Zagreb), lburazin@pravo.hr

Paweł Banaś (Jagiellonian University), pawel.banas@uj.edu.pl

This project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under Grant No. PPI/APM/2018/1/00022

We would like to invite you for the conference The Nature of Law (again). The conference will be a hybrid meeting. It will be held both in the room 110 in Pałac Larisha (Bracka 12, Kraków) and on Zoom [link will be provided after a registration] on May 23, 2022.

Registration for the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nature-of-law-again-may-23-2022-both-krakow-and-on-line-tickets-329596460887

Programme:

10:00  – Opening

10.00  – 11.00  Miodrag Jovanović (University of Belgrad):  

Prototype Theory of Concepts and analytical account of law- Methodological Crossroads. 

11.00 – 11:30  - Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30  David Duarte (University of Lisbon):

Identification of normative systems: the “three norms” theory.

12.30  - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00  Wojciech Załuski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):  

Kant's Apriorical Idea of Law: The Problem of Its Justification

15:00-16:00  Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):

Necessary Features of Law

The conference is part of Krakow Seminars in Law, Language and Philosophy, organized by Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy. The event is part of the Philosophy of Language, Social Ontology, and Contemporary Legal Theory Research Platform (POB Heritage JU Grant) which includes team members from Insitut Jean Nicod, University of Milan, University of Lisbon, Zagreb University along with the Jagiellonian University Krakow.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars working on contemporary problems in the philosophy of language and mind. The central issues to be discussed include, but are not limited to:

• the role of context in the determination of the content expressed by natural language utterances;
• enrichment viewed as a pragmatic process whose function is to develop the content expressed by natural language utterances in order to arrive at fully determinate concepts and thoughts;
• the mental representation of content expressed by natural language utterances.

Programme:

9:15-9:40 Coffee, Registration

9:40-9:45 Opening

9:45-11:00 François Recanati (Paris); Fictional Characters [invited speaker] (room 13)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Daniel Milne-Plückebaum (Bielefeld); Species Predicates in Virtual Semantics (room 28)

12:00-12:45 Sebastian Petzolt (Oxford); Compounds in Context (room 28)

12:45-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:45 Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (Warsaw); Subsentential Speech Acts [invited speaker] (room 28)

15:45-16:30 Antonin Thuns (Brussels); Modulation or Substitution? (room 28)

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:30 Tadeusz Ciecierski (Warsaw); Utterances, sub-utterances and token-reflexivity (room 28)

17:30-18:45 Michael Murez (Nantes); The Transparency of Mental Representations [invited speaker] (room 28)

invited speakers:

Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paryż): Fictional Characters

Abstract: Fictional uses are the uses of fictional proper names (e.g. ‘Sherlock Holmes’) one finds in the fiction in which the names in question are introduced. Such uses are not genuinely referential : they rest on pretence — the pretence that there is an individual the author is referring to. Metafictional uses of proper names (‘Sherlock Holmes was created by Doyle in 1887’) are genuinely referential : they refer to a cultural object, arguably a variety of abstract artefact. In the talk I will discuss a third type of use of fictional names : parafictional uses, illustrated by ‘In the story, Holmes is a clever detective who solves cases for a variety of clients, including Scotland Yard’. I will discuss two approaches to such uses, one that assimilates them to metafictional uses, and another one that assimilates them to fictional uses. I will try to steer a middle course between the two approaches, by exploiting the linguistic notion of a dot-object. In the last part of the talk I will reframe the issue in terms of mental files.

can be watched here

Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw): Subsentential speech acts

Abstract: The most commonly given examples of subsentential speech acts are expressions such as “Nice dress”, “Both hands”, “Where?” spoken in such circumstances in which speakers uttering them are regarded as “making moves in a language game”, e.g., stating, asking, promising, etc. To deal with such acts I’ll suggest an account which is based on Recanati’s moderate relativism (2007). Pace Recanati and following Perry (1986) I’ll claim that, at least in the case of subsentential speech acts, we have to postulate unarticulated constituents in contents as well as in the situations of evaluation. I’ll argue that this view allows replying to the argument from connectivity, which is one of the most important arguments for the claim that such utterances – contrary to appearances – are in fact ellipses, i.e. sentential speech acts. I’ll also criticize certain aspects of Corazza’s (2012) unenriched subsentential illocutions view, which similarly relies on Perry’s insights.

Michael Murez (Université de Nantes): The Transparency of Mental Representations

Abstract: Concepts are said to be "transparent" if a subject can discern solely through introspection whether or not they are deploying the same one. While there has been much discussion of threats to transparency stemming from semantic externalism, another threat to transparency has garnered somewhat less attention, viz. the identification of concepts with mental representations construed as psychological vehicles. In this talk, I explain why this view of concepts is potentially at odds with transparency, provide an empirical illustration which suggests the tension is real, and critically examine attempts to defend the transparency of mental representations by appealing to metaphysical principles about their conditions of individuation. I sketch a competing "modest" view of transparency, according to which the extent to which a given class of representations is transparent is an empirical issue.<br><br>

The workshop is organized in collaboration with Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University

Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University

more information here

Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network (LLPRN) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Conference held on May 8-10, 2020. The event is open for young scholars - both undergraduate, graduate students and PhD candidates.

The conference is organized by Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy, which is a joint institution of Faculty of Law and Administration as well as Faculty of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. It aims at initiating, organizing and coordinating different forms of activity that fits the wide scope of interdisciplinary research within the fields of legal theory/philosophy of law and philosophy of language with a strong leaning towards analytic background. The event is part of the project “Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network”, which includes Institut Jean Nicod, Surrey University, University of Milan, University of Zagreb, along with the Jagiellonian University Krakow.

Submission Guidelines

The conference aims to bring together young scholars interested in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Organizers intend to enable a space for a lively interchange of ideas and broaden horizons of young scholars and this event will be a great opportunity to achieve this aim, as well as establishment of better connection between students.

The conference’s themes are not strictly limited. We are open for talks from general jurisprudence and its specific themes, as positivist and non-positivist approaches, such as: Critical Legal Studies; Law and Culture, realism and naturalism in law, analytical tradition; Gender & Law.

We welcome submissions of abstracts up to 500 words via easychair [the webpage will be provided soon] in anonymized pdf. The submission deadline is March 4, 2020. Decisions would be made within two weeks

Each contributed paper would be given 30 minutes – about 20 minutes for a talk and 10 minutes for a discussion.

The conference will be held in English

List of Topics

•     law and language (speech acts, pragmatics of legal language, normativity of legal language);
•     metaphysics of law, (artifactual theories of law and social ontology);
•     metaphilosophy of law;
•     nature of normativity;
•     experimental philosophy of law (i.e. Law & Mind);
•     theories of interpretation;
•     theories of legal and democratic institutions;
•     positivism vs. non-positivism revisited;
•     rule of law;
•     mutual impacts of law and culture;
•     feminist legal theory and rights of minorities;
•     post-positivism (i.e. neoconstitutionalism);
•     history of the philosophy of law;
•     theories of legislation.

Keynote Speakers

TBA

Fees

The conference fee is 40 EUR. The fee includes meals and social programs.

The fee does not include accommodation, however organizers will provide special discounts in local hostels.

Venue

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (Pravni fakultet u Zagrebu)

Organizers

The conference is organized by Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy. The event is part of the project “Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network”.

The student organizing team are:

Karolina Gawron

Karlo Kožina

Stanisław Wielopolski

Bartosz Biskup
 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to llfzagreb2020@gmail.com

We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions.

This project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under Grant No. PPI/APM/2018/1/00022

Law, Language, and Social Ontology workshop co-organized by the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy and the Centre for Law, Language, and Philosophy, Jagiellonian University

The event took place in Toulson Law Library, School of Law, Frank Whittle Building (level 5), University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus

June 17–18 2019

Program:

Mon June 17

9:45pm Morning coffee/tea

10:15pm Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York), “Law as a Social Kind”

11:45pm Lunch

12:45pm Paweł Banaś (Jagiellonian U.) & Krzysztof Posłajko (Jagiellonian U.), “Two kinds of social kinds”

Tue June 18

9:45am Morning coffee/tea

10:15am George Pavlakos (Glasgow) & Samuele Chilovi (Barcelona), “The Explanatory Demands of Grounding in Law”

11:45am Lunch

1:00pm Francesca Poggi (Milan), “Meaning in Law”

2:30pm Coffee/tea

2:45pm Kathryn Lindeman (St Louis; soon, South Carolina), ““Can planning functions explain the normativity of law?””

4:15pm Closing coffee/tea

This project is co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under
Grant No. PPI/APM/2018/1/00022

Call for Abstracts: The conference invites submissions in all areas of experimental philosophy. Submissions related to experimental philosophy of law, experimental ethics, experimental philosophy of language, and experimental political philosophy are especially encouraged. There will be opportunities for presentations in both talk and poster sessions. To submit an abstract (up to 500 words) for anonymous review, visit https://openreview.net/group?id=EXPhi/2024/Conference. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2024, with decisions communicated on February 29th.

Keynote speakers:

Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston)

Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada)

Katarzyna Parzycka-Hausman and her team (University of Warsaw)

The conference will start with a poster session / reception in the evening on the 30th of May and finish in the early afternoon on the 2nd of June. We’ll also host a pre-conference workshop “LLMs for xPhi” on the 30th of May.

More information about the conference can be found on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/xphi2024krakow/home

Organizers: The conference is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy (https://pjf.uj.edu.pl) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (https://incet.uj.edu.pl), in cooperation with ​​the Chair of Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Psychology, and Future Law Lab at Jagiellonian University, the European Experimental Philosophy Association, and local XPhi groups in Europe.

Local organizers: Izabela Skoczeń, Tomasz Żuradzki, Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, Maciej Próchnicki, Vilius Dranseika

Funding: The event has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Law and Administration under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University and funding from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University.

Information: If you have any questions about the conference, please send an email to: xphi2024@gmail.com