

Domingos Faria is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP)
OFA’14 – CALL FOR ABSTRACTSThe fourteenth edition of the Oficina de Filosofia Analítica (OFA) will take place in Braga, on November 7th 2025, at the University of Minho, hosted by the Center for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), a research unit of the School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences (ELACH).OFA is a graduate workshop in #analytic #philosophy (broadly construed), aimed at providing a stimulating environment for graduate students and young researchers (i.e., having obtained their PhD in the last 3 years) in the #Portuguese philosophical community (i.e., either Portuguese or based in Portugal). The workshop is an initiative of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (SPFA), also supported by the Portuguese Society of Philosophy (SPF), with its first edition taking place in 2006.We invite submissions from all graduate students and young researchers who fulfill the criteria listed above. The working languages of the workshop are Portuguese and English. We invite submissions in the various areas of analytic philosophy including, but not limited to:Aesthetics and Philosophy of ArtCritical Philosophy of RaceEpistemologyEthics and Political PhilosophyFeminist PhilosophyLogic and Philosophy of MathematicsMetaphysicsPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of MindWe particularly encourage submissions by philosophers from groups currently underrepresented in the discipline.Papers should have no more than 500 words (excluding references), be prepared for blind review and in .pdf format. Submit them to oficinadefilosofiaanalitica@gmail.com by July 20th 2025, with the subject "Submission OFA 14". Information about the author should be in the body of the e-mail and include: author's name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by September 15th 2025.If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail oficinadefilosofiaanalitica@gmail.com.We look forward to receiving your submissions!
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