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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 2d

After Seville, I continue my short philosophy-themed trip in Southern Spain with a talk on hedged assertion in the beatiful Granada. Looking forward to this!

TeC-FiloLab con Dario Mortini: «On the Epistemic Norm of Hedged Assertion» – FiloLab UGR

A continuación tenéis el título y el resumen de su charla, así como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Dario.

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 8d

I'll give a joint talk with Sabina Domínguez-Parrado on heuristics-based arguments in philosophy. First joint talk ever for me, and also on a topic other than epistemology. We'll see how it goes...

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 8d

In Sevilla for the Congress of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy! Pretty as usual, and characteristically hot for a late September day.

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Isidora Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social · 8d

The First Valence Asymmeries Conference will take place on 19 & 20 March 2026 at UPF in Barcelona. Speakers: Hans Alves, Frédérique de Vignemont, Saif Mohammad, Pascale Willemsen. CFP submission deadline: 13 October!

"VALENCE ASYMMETRIES" CONFERENCE

Valence Asymmetries Conference DATES: 03/19/2026 TO 03/20/2026 UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA | CAMPUS DEL POBLENOU, CARRER DE ROC BORONAT, BARCELONA, ESPANYA Organized by the Factultat de Traducció i Ciè...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 9d

👋 NEWS! 🚨

Senior member Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social , Maria de Maeztu postdoc @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social , has just published a new article – congratulations! 🧠✨

➡️“Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion”
📖 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - Erkenntnis

Erkenntnis - Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A...

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Dani, enjoy the BCN heavy metal extravaganza and see you next week :)

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 11d

Anyhow, best of luck! You'll do great :)

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 11d

More concretely, it may be useful to try to summarise structure and contributions of the dissertation in a two-page handout, and go over it before the day of the viva. During the discussion, not being defensive and being open to criticisms may also be a good idea.

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 11d

I found it helpful to approach the whole thing by seeing it as an opportunity to discuss topics I've been thinking about with people I could learn a lot from rather than as an examination. Having this perspective calmed me, and also helped me to enjoy it.

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 12d

I think this difference is relevant to assess both different versions of the heuristics methods and his recent arguments, but I still haven't managed to pin point exactly why.

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 12d

The method is not new: psychological invariantists made similar moves to explain contextualist data (Vogel 1990, Hawthorne 2004,, Nagel 2010, Gerken 2013...). A striking difference, though, is that Williamson posits heuristics instead of drawing on independently documented psychological phenomena

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for your interest, Matt! Just coincidentally, next week I'll give a co-authored presentation on the heuristics method, so I've been thinking a bit about it recently...

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 13d

But overall I really enjoyed thinking and writing about this topic, and I hope I'll get the chance to do it again in the future! :)

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 13d

It hasn't been easy to work on this paper. The norm of assertion literature is unwieldy, and it's tricky to evaluate the (in)felicity of some sentences when English is not your native language. Thankfully, I got help from referees, and also from friends and colleagues.

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 13d

For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).

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Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers

Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, this helps! I'm aware that K5 and K6 serve a different dialectical purpose in the McK&T paper, but I wanted to bring them up to consider more possible cases 'I know' parentheticals as strength modifiers. The aside is very much on point, those clauses are a cliché in philosophical writing :)

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 27d

This is a great paper and I think that your examples are relevant. Quick (and maybe naive) question related to the mini-lit you mention: couldn't we also appeal to McKinnon and Turri's examples to show that 'I know' parentheticals can actually modify strength? Do you hear K5 and K6 as stronger?

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 29d

Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project.

If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 29d

Best of luck! :)

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Sep 8

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust

This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.

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Hugo Viciana @hugoviciana.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives'
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
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Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives

This focused workshop explores the intersection of empirical research on moral cognition and philosophical theories of social and moral progress. We bring together experimental philosophers and moral ...

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · Aug 21

New experimental conceptual engineering paper!

Does the name you give to novel ideas affect people's understanding of those ideas? Yes, but only certain kinds of names and less so when the idea is explicitly defined.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Isidora Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social · Aug 19

Very excited to announce the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference, March 19th-20th 2026, at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, the first major event in my Valence Asymmetries ERC Advanced Grant (GA n° 101142133). Deadline for submissions: 30 September. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Valence Asymmetries Conference

The Valence Asymmetries ERC team is happy to announce that it will be organizing the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference on March 19th-20th 2026 at the Pompeu Fabra University in&...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jul 22

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