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

Date & Time: Tuesday 15 December 2026, 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 systematicityamsterdam at gmail.com by October 15 at 23:59.

For more information, see https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/constructed-meanings-the-challenge-of-artificial-intelligence/ or contact Giorgio Sbardolini at systematicityamsterdam at gmail.com.