PhiLang 2025

Even NEWER Updated Conference Programme now available:

version 15/05/25

Book of Abstracts now available:  here

Please remember to bring your presentation on a pen drive, rather than on your computer

There is ample free parking at the faculty. If the barrier is down, please use the intercom and ask to be let in!

The Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Lodz announces the Ninth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. As in previous years, the principal aim of our Conference is to bring together philosophers, linguists, and logicians, as well as researchers interested in argumentation, philosophy of literature, and philosophy of mind.

We invite submission of abstracts on any topic in the philosophy of language and linguistics, broadly understood. We encourage innovative work and works in progress, and we are always keen to attract new researchers at the beginning of their careers. Priority will be given to abstracts which are situated within the current state of the art and look to go beyond it.

Presentations should last a maximum of 30 minutes (including discussion and questions). The conference will not be held in a hybrid form: all participants should be present with us in Lodz. The language of the conference is English.
 
Selected conference proceedings will be published in a monographic volume and special issues of international journals.

Submission

Submissions are now closed. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2025.

All participants should register for the conference by filling out this online form.

Fees: Full fee -  200 Euros (750 zł for participants from Poland). Reduced fee for students/unemployed - 125 Euros (500 zł for participants from Poland). The fees cover attendance, lunches, and the conference dinner. Particpants should make their own arrangements concerning travel and accommodation. Please remember that any bank transfer charges are the responsibility of the payer. If the payment we receive is lower than the stated amounts, you may be asked to make up the full amount.

Please make payments payable to the University of Lodz. In the title of your payment you must include your name and the name of the conference, i.e. 'Smith PhiLang 2025'. If you require a tax invoice, please remember to add the relevant details on the registration form.

IBAN: PL 78 1240 3028 1111 0011 4816 2807
BIC/Swift: PKOPPLPW
Bank: Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A., II Oddział w Łodzi
Piotrkowska 270, 90-361 Łódź

Registration deadline: 30th March 2025

Payment deadline: 30th April 2025

The fifth edition of PhilArg aims to continue the investigation of the philosophical foundations of argumentation theory, and, in particular, to examine further its links with linguistics and the philosophy of language. The theme for this edition is The Individual Arguer: Goals, Functions and Effects of Arguments. We remain open to submissions to present innovative research on all aspects of argumentation and rhetoric. Due to the large amount of interest, PhilArg will now run through all three days of the conference.

We intend to maintain our tradition of publishing selected papers from the workshop and intend to prepare a special issue of the journal Argumentation.

We are delighted to announce that our plenary speaker will be Dima Mohammed, Nova University, Lisbon.

Topics are wide-ranging and may include:

*Argument Functions *Arguer Goals * Argument Evaluation  * Language and Argument  * Rhetoric and Argument * Fallacy Theory  * Logic in Argumentation  * Argument-mining   * Argumentative Discourse  * Multimodal Argumentation *Argument and Technology

Travel:

Lodz airport (LCJ) currently has regular connections to London (STN), Nottingham, Birmingham, Dublin, Alicante, Malaga, Brussels, and Milan.

Lodz is also easily accessible by train from Warsaw airport (WAW) which has a wide range of international and domestic flights.

Attendees arriving by train should check which of the main stations is closest to their hotel. The faculty building is situated between the intercity hubs Lodz Widzew and Lodz Fabryczna, and is walking distance from the local stations Lodz Niciarniana and Lodz Stoki. The intercity train timetable is here.

The faculty can be reached by tram no. 17, stop: Lumumby. Many trams, and bus no. 86, also call at the nearby stop: Pomorska-Konstytucyjna. You may also alight at the stop Narutowicza-Radiostacja and approach the building from the rear. More details on public transport are available here.

Accommodation:

There are a large number of accommodation options in the centre of Lodz.

Close to the faculty building, a budget option is BB Consul, a little further away Villa Masoneria.

Please e-mail us at: philang2025@uni.lodz.pl