Barbara Konat Barbara Konat is Head of the Laboratory of Everyday Argumentation and Persuasion (LEAP) at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University. She is the author of Emotional Appeals in Argumentation: From Rhetoric to Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (2025). Her research examines the relationship between emotion and argumentation by integrating philosophical, psychological, and computational-linguistic approaches within cognitive science. She currently leads PersOn, a project on pragmatic mechanisms of persuasion in online communities, focusing on phatic interaction and emotional synchrony. She publishes in Argumentation, Informal Logic, Language and Social Psychology, and Language and Cognition, among others.
Masaharu Mizumoto is an Associate Professor in the School of Knowledge Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has edited Epistemology for the Rest of the World (OUP 2018) and Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology (Routledge 2020). His publications include articles in Philosophical Studies, Episteme, Inquiry, Language Sciences, and IEEE Access. He is now working on several international AI-related projects, such as “Cross-Linguistic Semantic Alignment”.
He’s the keynote speaker in the satellite Workshop on Linguistic Justice
Shaun Nichols is Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy and Chair of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. He works at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science, and his research concerns the psychological underpinnings of philosophical thought. He is the author of Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, and Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning (all Oxford University Press) as well as over 200 articles in academic books and journals.
Francesca Panzeri is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language in the Department of Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Milan. Her research focuses on pragmatic phenomena, including the derivation of implicit content, metaphor, and irony. She has conducted experimental studies on the acquisition of pragmatic competence in both typical populations (neurotypical adults and children) and atypical populations (children and adolescents with prelingual deafness, autism, and Down syndrome). Another line of her research investigates the cues that facilitate the detection of irony in face-to-face interactions, computer-mediated communication, and large language models.