METIS hosts a weekly seminar series, alternating between internal and external speakers. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 11:30 (CET) 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 the infinite and Cantor’s diagonal proof

March 11: Losner Briones (UNED): Evidential challenges in Universal Basic Income experiments

March 18: Sofia Blanco Sequeiros (Helsinki): Evidential discordance and scientific inference

March 25: Ignacio Sánchez-Moreno (UNED): Evaluando la competencia comunicativa del perro doméstico (Canis familiaris) para el uso de sistemas aumentativos de comunicación interespecie

April 1: Javier Anta (LMU/UNED): Intellectually inflationary science as a form of Lakatosian degeneration

April 8: Ignasi Gil (UCM): Incessant checking is epistemically flawless (but might be zetetically criticisable)

April 22: Lilith Mace (Glasgow): Kinds of doubt

April 29: Marco Portillo (UNED): El problema del pasado: ¿Es posible el realismo en historia?

May 6: Giuliano Torrengo (Milán): Consciousness, multiverse and multirealization (with G. Spolaore, Padua)

May 13: Orsola Stancampiano (Genova): A chance to create photographic metaphor

May 27: Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (UCLA): Bias and noise as sensitivity failures

June 10: José Alejandro Fernández Cuesta (UCM), Michele Piazzai (Edinburgh) & Umberto Rivieccio (UNED): Quantum logics beyond physics

June 17: Daniel Star (Boston): Appreciation, inquiry, and deliberation

June 24: Robert Hopkins (NYU): The singular character of episodic memory

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September 30: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh): “Local coastal communities and their ways of knowing. Ocean tales from the past and looking into the future”