METIS hosts a weekly seminar series, alternating between internal and external speakers. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 11:30 (CEST) in Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED. They are also streamed. If you’d like to attend online, get in touch. Alternatively, you can just show up.
The seminar is currently coordinated by Paloma Atencia-Linares and Susana Monsó.
Here you can find an archive of calendars for our previously hosted talks and here you can access video recordings of our seminar.
This is the calendar for the academic year 2024/2025:
October 8: Claudia Picazo (UNED): Meaning manipulation
October 15: Workshop Expression, Communication & Fiction
October 22: Alberto Morán (UNED): Significados de lo vasco: identidad e inferencialismo
October 29: Javier Suárez (Oviedo): Epistemic misalignments in microbiome research (with F. Boem)
November 5: José Antonio Pérez Escobar (UNED): Structural analogies in mathematics and the disagreement between Turing and Wittgenstein
November 12: Delia Belleri (CSIC): Conceptual engineering, language use, and the neutral implementation challenge
November 19: James Lewis (Cardiff): Interpersonal valuing and tactile experience
November 26: Patrik Engisch (Geneva): Towards a pluralist account of creativity
December 3: Nuria Polo (UNED): La deixis de género en las lenguas y el caso del español
December 10: Miguel Segundo-Ortín & Vicente Raja (Murcia): The ecological self-organization of agency
December 17: Paloma Atencia Linares (UNED) & Miguel Ángel Sebastián (UNAM): Can Artificial Intelligence Systems be really creative?
January 14: Susana Monsó & Cristian Saborido (UNED): Animal medicine
January 28: Diana Mazzarella (Neuchâtel): Epistemic vigilance at play: Navigating presupposition and assertion
February 11: Jesús Zamora Bonilla (UNED): From McEnroe’s maxim to Madonna’s principle: an inferentialist rereading of the Protokollsätze debate
February 18: Enrique Alonso (UAM): La Lógica Natural: entre la tradición y la herejía
February 25: Miguel Borrajo (UAM): AI, cetacean communication, and the limits of philosophical observation
March 4: Sorin Bangu (Bergen): Wittgenstein on assimilationism, scientism and mathematics
March 11: Losner Briones (UNED)
March 18: Sofia Blanco Sequeiros (Helsinki)
March 25: Ignacio Sánchez-Moreno (UNED)
April 1: TBD
April 8: Ignasi Gil (UNED)
April 22: Lilith Mace (Glasgow)
April 29: Marco Portillo (UNED)
May 6: Giuliano Torrengo (Milán)
May 13: Orsola Stancampiano (Genova)
May 27: Amin Afrouzi (UCLA & Yale)
June 10: Umberto Rivieccio (UNED)
June 17: Daniel Star (Boston)
June 24: TBD