News and Events: Conferences

(New) 15 December 2026, Constructed Meanings: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

Date: Tuesday 15 December 2026
Time: 09:00
Location: REC A2.11
Target audience: Master and Phd student, possibly postdocs if the capacity allows
Costs: Free
Deadline: Thursday 15 October 2026

The Systematicity Argument tells us that there must be symbols (“concepts”) inside agents who display linguistic capacities: the argument has been enormously influential in Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and now in AI, but is the argument a good one?
Invited Speakers: D. Rothschild (UCL), M. Lewis (ILLC, UvA), S. Gerlek (ASCA, UvA).
Applications are welcome from Master and PhD students.

Please submit an anonymized abstract (max. 2 pages excluding references, 1 inch margin and 11pt font) to by October 15 at 23:59.