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  • Expression, Communication and the Origins of Meaning
    We’re delighted to share that ECOM Director Dorit Bar-On’s new book, Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December 2026. The book asks how human language evolved from animal communication, and offers a new answer to what Bar-On calls the “first hard problem” of language evolution: explaining how meaningful […]
  • Salzburg Inner Speech
    SALZBURG WORKSHOP ON INNER SPEECH: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT IS IT FOR? The Salzburg Workshop on Inner Speech will take place from Thursday, May 21, through Saturday, May 23, 2026, on the campus of the University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. The workshop will feature speakers and posters from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science and linguistics. […]
  • Ashley Shaw is visiting ECOM!
    We are excited to announce that Ashley Shaw is going to visit ECOM in Fall 2024! Ashley Shaw is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He received his PhD from UCL in 2019. He works in the Philosophy of Mind and Action; in particular, on the nature of desire, rational agency, […]
  • Mark Jary is visiting ECOM!
    We are excited to announce that Mark Jary is going to visit ECOM in Fall 2024! Mark Jary is currently a María Zambrano Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is also Emeritus Professor in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Roehampton […]