Programme
University of Cagliari
Faculty of Humanistic Studies
Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy
6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference
&
Linguistic Justice Society Satellite Workshop on “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice”
September 8–11, 2026
Generously supported by
Gian Pietro Storari Funds, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Cagliari,
Fondazione di Sardegna, Esperantic Studies Foundation, Regione Autonoma Sardegna
Linguistic Justice Society Satellite Workshop – September 8
8:30–8:45 Registration, Room 2B
8:45–9:00 Welcome, Room 1B
Chair: Filippo Contesi (Cagliari)
9:00–9:45 Invited Talk: Çağla Çimendereli (Old Dominion), The Concept of Nonnative Speaker
9:45–10:15 Giuseppina Calenda, Linguistic Injustice in Italian L2 Classrooms: Rethinking Inclusion and Epistemic Agency
10:15–10:45 Saiki Lucy Cheah (Helsinki), Language, Access, and Agency: Linguistic Justice in Environmental Citizenship Education
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
Chair: TBD
11:15–11:45 David Bordonaba-Plou (Madrid Complutense) & Laila M. Jreis-Navarro (Zaragoza), Linguistic Injustice in Multilingual Technologies: The Paradox of Anglocentric Multilingualism
11:45–12:15 Denisa Reshef Kera (Bar Ilan), Deixis Across Languages: Ethical Dilemma Simulations and Normative Reasoning in Multilingual LLMs
12:15–12:45 Kelly Dinneen, Do AI Translation Technologies Serve Linguistic Justice for Animals?
12:45–14:05 Lunch Break
Chair: TBD
14:05–15:00 Keynote Talk: Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), AI Cross-Linguistic Inconsistency: Should We Defer to or Disagree With?
15:00–15:30 Maya Alkateb-Chami (Harvard), Advancing a Right to a Basic Literacy
15:30–16:00 Anna Drożdżowicz (Inland Norway), Linguistic Diversity and Ambivalence
16:00–16:30 Diana Camps (Glasgow), Framing in(Justice): Language, Law and Social Rights
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Francesca Ervas (Cagliari)
17:00–17:30 Bengt-Arne Wickström (Budapest Andrássy), Language Rights and Justice for Linguistic Minorities From the Perspective of Constitutional Economics
17:30–18:00 Zezheng Lin (Chicago), Quantifying Linguistic Injustice in Multilingual Foundation Model Evaluation: The Translation Tax
18:00–18:30 Laura Paige Fitzgerald (San Diego State), More than Mechanics: Linguistic Discrimination in AI Grading Tools
18:30–19:00 Neri Marsili (Turin), Linguistic Inequity in Academic Philosophy: A Big Data Analysis of Publication Trends (1975–2021)
6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference – Day 1 – September 9
8:30–9:00 Registration, Room 2B
9:00–9:15 Introduction, Room 1B
Chair: Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan)
9:15–10:00 Keynote Talk: Francesca Panzeri (Milan Bicocca), It’s a Bitter-Sweet Irony: Understanding Ironic Compliments
10:00–10:20 Discussion
10:20–10:50 Coffee Break
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| X-Phi Methodology | X-Phi of Language | Moral X-Phi | |
| Chair | TBD | Elisabetta Gola (Cagliari) | TBD |
| 10:50–11:30 | Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen (Granada), Joshua Knobe (Yale), Philosophical Thought Experiments Elicit Conflicting Intuitions | Jenny Jones (Edinburgh), A Linguistic Investigation of Gendered Autonomy | Niels Skovgaard-Olsen (Freiburg), Norm Conflicts and Decision Theory |
| 11:30–12:10 | James Andow (Manchester), What are the Implications of the Conflicting Intuitions Hypothesis? | Lucien Baumgartner (Zurich), Contextual Evaluative Asymmetries in Thick Predicates | Scott Partington (Cambridge), Shaun Nichols (Cornell), The Cultural Evolution of Specified Norms |
| 12:10–12:50 | Adrian Ziółkowski, Krzysztof Sękowski (Warsaw), Even More Stable Conflicting Intuitions: The Retraction Effect | Pawel Lupkowski (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan), Erotetic Search Scenarios as a Normative Questioning Agenda for Information-Seeking Dialogues | Aidan Runagall-McNaull (Oxford), Putting the Moral Cart Before the Structural Horse: Moralised Attitudes Aren’t Strong, but Strong Attitudes are Moralised |
12:50–14:30 Lunch
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| X-Phi of Language | X-Epistemology | X-Phi of Medicine | |
| Chair | Filippo Contesi (Cagliari) | Francesca Ervas (Cagliari) | TBD |
| 14:30–15:10 | Alex Wiegmann (Bochum), Nikolai Shurakov (Zurich), Pascale Willemsen (Zurich), Lying by Omission | Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian Krakow), Is Ignorance About Being Ignorant: A Study Across Varieties of Ignorance | Ivars Neiders (Latvia), Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian Krakow), Prediction Tools for Severe Mental Disorders: Acceptability of Transparent vs. Opaque Models |
| 15:10–15:50 | Svea Reinken, Mailin Antomo (Göttingen), Emanuel Viebahn (Hamburg), Seeing Lies. Lying and Commitment Through Visual Communication | Samuel Schindler (Aarhus), Scientific Discovery and Potential Bias | Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian Krakow), Losing a Part of Oneself, One’s World Being Destroyed, and No Longer Being the Same Person: Grief Utterances and Personal Identity |
| 15:50–16:30 | Miklós Kürthy, Markus Kneer (Graz), The Concept of Fake News: The Roles of Falsity, Deception, and Politics | Mariusz Urbanski, Róża Sateja (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan), Does the Moon Go Round? Cross-Cultural Evidence for Circular-Model Reasoning | Paola Pennisi, Sara Alfia Nicotra, Michela Cannarozzo (Messina), Pragmatic Competence Beyond Language: Clinical Evidence From Jordan Syndrome |
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| Moral X-Phi | X-Phi Methodology | X-Phi of Language | |
| Chair | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 17:00–17:40 | Charlotte Phillips, Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), Respecting the Dead: Relationship, Time, and the Moral Psychology of Obligations to the Dead | Marcus Ashby (King’s College London), Do We Have ‘Revelation’ Intuitions? Experimental Philosophy and Phenomenal Essence | Nicole Gotzner (Osnabrück), Kevin Reuter (Gothenburg), Does Discrimination Require Intent? |
| 17:40–18:20 | Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian Krakow), The Action-First Deep Self: Experimental Evidence from Inverse Akrasia and Inverse Enkrasia | Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Joanna Gęgotek, Monika Gurak, Franciszek Kittel (Warsaw), Something at Stake in Knowledge After All? A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Evidence | Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan), Is Irony Hard to Understand, or Just Rare? Exposure Frequency and Irony Comprehension in Bilinguals |
| 18:20–19:00 | Katarzyna Zyń (Warsaw), Moral Granularity as an Unrecognised Confound in Folk Metaethics. A Methodological Proposal | Paul Rehren (Max Planck), Is Experimental Philosophy’s Moment in the Sun Over? A Scientometric Analysis | Lucienne Huby (Cagliari), Oriana Mosca (Cagliari), Valentina Rizzoli (Sapienza Rome), Beyond Comprehension: A Memory-Based Account of Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Health Contexts |
6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference – Day 2 – September 10
Chair: Pascale Willemsen (Zurich)
9:15–10:00 Keynote Talk, Room 1B: Shaun Nichols (Cornell Ithaca), Teleology and the Meaning of Life
10:00–10:20 Discussion
10:20–10:50 Coffee Break
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| Moral X-Phi | X-Phi of AI | X-Phi of Language | |
| Chair | Roberta Fadda (Cagliari) | TBD | Francesca Ervas (Cagliari) |
| 10:50–11:30 | Faisal Feroz, Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), Deconstructing the Moral Circle: Distinguishing Standing, Obligation, and Concern | Maximilian Theisen (Basel), Should the machine know better? Asymmetric Epistemic Standards Toward Human and Artificial Agents | Paul E. Engelhardt, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Mohammed S. Houssaini, Eugen Fischer (East Anglia), Diversity in Polysemy Processing: Empirical Constraints on Conceptual Re-engineering |
| 11:30–12:10 | Kiichi Inarimori (Hiroshima), Moral Responsibility in a Sense and in a Deeper Sense: Rethinking Compatibilist and Incompatibilist Responses in Experimental Philosophy | Ritsaart Reimann (Graz), In the Loop, Out of Sync: Moral Judgement in Human-AI Control Architectures | Elisa Franchetti, Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh), When Do Presuppositions Outperform Assertions? The Role of Vigilance and Trigger Type in Persuasive Effect of Presupposed Content |
| 12:10–12:50 | Tiago Carneiro da Silva (Leeds), Experimental Ethics and Self-Evidence | Neele Engelmann, Lara Kirfel, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla, JF Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan (Max Planck), Hey ChatGPT, Lie for Me! Delegating Unethical Behavior to AI | Agata Paszke, Sebastian Kołodziejczyk, Joseph Ulatowski (Jagiellonian Krakow), Proper Names, Individuation, and the Modified Test of Metaphysical Intuitions |
12:50–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:30 Poster Presentations, Room 2B
- Lucienne Huby (Cagliari), Declarative Memory and Metaphor Production: A Behavioral Pilot Study on Emotional Episodic Recall and Semantic Network Structure
- Izabela Dorota Skoczen, Jakub Figura (Jagiellonian Krakow), How LLMs Spread Misinformation Through Implicatures
- Friederike Moltmann (CNRS, Paris), On the Connection Between Philosophical and Linguistic Intuition
- Vivyen Sagsen (York), Imagination as a Cognitive Lab
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| X-Phi of Language | X-Phi of Law | Moral X-Phi | |
| Chair | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 16:00–16:40 | Riin Kõiv (Barcelona), Does Linking Language Matter? Genetic Essentialism and the Context Sensitivity of Interpretation | Karolina Prochownik (Jagiellonian Krakow), Conceptual Analysis in Traditional and Experimental Jurisprudence: Continuity or Transformation? | Pascale Willemsen (Zurich), Alexander Max Bauer (Oldenburg), When the Apple Doesn’t Fall From the Tree… Nobody Blames the Tree! |
| 16:40–17:20 | Maciej Tarnowski, Adrian Ziółkowski (Warsaw), Putting KK to the Test | Leonard Hoeft (HU Berlin), Guilherme Almeida (Insper Sao Paulo), Ivar Hannikainen (Granada), Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian Krakow), Noel Struchiner (PUC-Rio), Crafting Rules | Christian Rodriguez (Basel), Kirsten Persson (Basel), David Shaw (Basel), Edwin Louis-Maerten (Basel), Samuel Camenzind (Vienna), Matthias Eggel (Basel), Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), Welfare, Integrity, and Brain-Dead Animals: An Experimental Bioethics Study of Public Moral Judgements in Animal Research |
| 17:20–18:00 | Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Moore’s Paradox Across Cultures | Noel Struchiner (PUC-Rio), Guilherme Almeida (Insper Sao Paulo), Karolina Prochownik (Jagiellonian Krakow), Who Protests Unjust Laws: Positivists or Their Critics? An Empirical Test of the Normative Case for Legal Positivism | Zezheng Lin (Chicago), Jinhao Gan (Beijing), When LLM Agents Look Like Survey Respondents. A Mechanism Non-Identification Problem for X-Phi Methodology |
20:00 Social Dinner
6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference – Day 3 – September 11
Chair: Francesca Ervas (Cagliari)
9:15–10:00 Keynote Talk, Room 1B: Barbara Konat (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan), Emotion, Argument Strength, and Experimental Philosophy
10:00–10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| X-Phi of Medicine | X-Phi of Reasoning | X-Phi of AI | |
| Chair | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 10:50–11:30 | Somogy Varga (Aarhus), Joshua Knobe (Yale), Normality and the Ordinary Concept of Disease | Revati Shivnekar, Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian Krakow), Reasonableness Judgements Are Driven by the Choice and the Effort Taken | Lara Kirfel, Neele Engelmann, Arne Maas, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Jonathan Phillips (Max Planck), LLM-Generated Possibilities Increase Blame Attribution |
| 11:30–12:10 | Sinéad Cleary, Celine Kraitem, Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), Too Emotional to Decide? Gender-emotion Stereotypes and Medical Paternalism | Izabela Dorota Skoczen, Kacper Poradzisz (Jagiellonian Krakow), What is Reasonable for Artificial Intelligence? | Amrit Nidhi, Do People Trust Efficient AI Less? Compute Budgets, Transparency, and Epistemic Trust in Machine Testimony |
| 12:10–12:50 | Federico Bina, Aidan Runagall-McNaull, Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford), An Empirical Investigation of Folk Conceptions of Listening in Healthcare | James Beebe (Buffalo), Good Reasoners Aren’t Fooled by Authentic Evidence Gettier Cases (Which May Also Be Skeptical Pressure Cases) | Neri Marsili (Turin), The Costs and Benefits of Hiding: Anonymous Testimony in Online Spaces |
12:50–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:30 Poster Presentations, Room 2B
- Daniel Martín (Granada), Kathryn B. Francis (Oxford), Edmond Awad (Exeter), Ivar R. Hannikainen (Granada), Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Tasks for Measuring the Moral Perception Towards Non-Human Entities
- Mieszko Tałasiewicz (Warsaw), Neo-Husserlian Account of Propositions
- Francois Nemo (Orléans), Zaineb Bouzayenne, Gilles Cloiseau, An Experimental Approach to Prosodic Focus and Questions Under Discussion at the Utterance/Sentence Interface
- Francisco Alcalà (IVIE Valencia), Quantitative Moral Dilemmas and Calibration: From Intuitions to Parameters
- Necmiye Yuksel (Recep Tayip Erdogan Rize), From X-Phi to SciXPhi: Investigating Scientific Judgments Through Experimental Philosophy
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
| Room 1B | Room 3B | Room 4B | |
| Moral X-Phi | X-Hermeneutics | X-Argumentation | |
| Chair | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 16:00–16:40 | Kasper Lipper-Rasmussen (Aarhus), Kevin Reuter (Gothenburg), Somogy Varga (Aarhus), Moral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation | Ángel Pinillos (Arizona State), Ben Phillips (Arizona State), Eleonore Neufeld (Massachusets Amherst), Bob Rehder (New York), Five Theories, Three Experiments: Adjudicating Models of Natural Kind Categorization | Eugen Fischer (East Anglia), Keith Allen (York), Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (East Anglia), Nina Haket (Cambridge), Mohammed Seyed Houssaini, Paul E. Engelhardt (East Anglia), Experimental Argument Analysis: Empirically Examining the Argument from Hallucination |
| 16:40–17:20 | Nikolai Shurakov, Pascale Willemsen (Zurich), Who Are You to Give Me Health Advice? Standing to Blame and Praise in the Medical Context | Clément Canonne (IRCAM Paris), Hugo Rodriguez (IRCAM Paris), Pierre Saint-Germier (IRCAM Paris), Indiana Wollman, Interpretive Authenticity Put to the Test: An Experimental Study of Performance Values in Western Classical Music | Elisa Wessel (Adam Mickiewicz Poznan), Experimental Approach to Reasoning: Studying In-group/Out-group Cues, Emotion, and Argument Strength in Patriotism Debates |
| 17:20–18:00 | Vanessa Franco Ramírez (Salamanca), Principles for Just Intercultural Argumentation—A Multidimensional Proposal |
18:00–20:30 Excursion in Cagliari with Nadir Sardinia