2nd Lund-KCL Workshop: Norms, Knowledge, and Language

The 2nd joint workshop between Lund and King's College London takes place on the 24th-25th of April and is organised by Elsa Magnell and Niklas Dahl.

Friday 24th of April 2026 

09.25 Coffee and Opening Remarks 

09.30-10.15 Steven Diggin (University of Inland Norway): "Improvising with Language" 

10.15-10.20 Break 

10.20-11.05 Ellis Riggsbee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "The Semantic Self-Defeat of External-World Skepticism’"

11.05-11.15 Break 

11.15-12.00 Juuso Rantanen (King’s College London/Humboldt University): "The Unerring Understanding – Kant on the Source of Errors in our Judgements’" 

12.00-13.15 Lunch 

13.15-14.00 Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw): "Modality, Semantic Rules, and the World" 

14.00-14.15 Break 

14.15-15.00 Hugo Heagren (King’s College London): "Assessment-Relative Metasemantics Across Sets of Utterances" 

15.00-15.15 Break 

15.15-16.15 Keynote: Henry Schiller (King’s College London): "TBA" 

Conference Dinner 

Saturday 25th of April 2026 

10.00-10.45 Sam Kang (King’s College London): “Building the Testimonial Pipeline” 

10.45-11.00 Break 

11.00-11.45 Karl Bergman (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): “Norms of Assertion and of Communicative Success: Unifying the Debates” 

11.45-12.45 Lunch

12.45-13.30 Samuel Tjernström (McGill University): “The Metaphysics of Doxastic Normativity” 

13.30-13.45 Break

13.45-14.30 Thomas Heywood (University of Oxford): “Belief, Morality, and Reckless Judgement”

14.30-14.45 Break

14.45-15.30 Jiwon Kim (Lund University): “Standing as a Second-Order Norm of Address: Entitlement and Misattribution”

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-16.45 Keynote: Andrew Reisner (Uppsala University): “TBA”