Kick-Off Workshop of the Acquaintance Network

1-3 July 2026
Valencia Philosophy Lab
University of Valencia, Department of Philosophy
Room F11

Speakers: Emad Atiq, Sharon Casu, Sam Coleman, Matt Duncan, Anna Giustina, Ali Hasan, Michael Markunas, Jacopo Pallagrosi, Chris Ranalli, Donovan Wishon.
Organizers: Matt Duncan, Anna Giustina, Jacopo Pallagrosi

Program

Wednesday, July 1

10 – 11:30 Donovan Wishon, “How Transparent is Experience?: Reassessing Diaphaneity in Early Analytic Philosophy”

Coffee break

12 – 13:30 Sharon Casu, “Acquaintance and Mediation”

Lunch

15 – 17 Roundtable: SEP on Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (by Ali Hasan). Discussants: Emad Atiq, Sharon Casu, Sam Coleman, Matt Duncan, Anna Giustina, Ali Hasan, Michael Markunas, Jacopo Pallagrosi, Chris Ranalli, Donovan Wishon


Thursday, July 2

10 – 11:30 Sam Coleman, “Phenomenal Concepts, Qualia, and Acquaintance - Issues Arising”
 
Coffee break

12 – 13:30 Michael Markunas, “Acquaintance with Abstract Objects”

Lunch

15:30 – 17 Anna Giustina and Jacopo Pallagrosi, “Knowledge by Acquaintance and the Conceptual Mind”


Friday, July 3

12:00 – 13:30 Matt Duncan, “I Think, Therefore ... Presentism is False”

Lunch

15:30 – 17:30 Roundtable: The Normativity of Knowledge by Acquaintance. Discussants: Sharon Casu, Sam Coleman, Matt Duncan, Anna Giustina, Ali Hasan, Michael Markunas, Jacopo Pallagrosi, Chris Ranalli, Donovan Wishon



Special thanks to Jorge Guardiola for the invaluable logistical support.

Contact: jacopopallagrosi@gmail.com

Funding
Know Yourself: The Importance, the Nature, and the Applications of Introspective Self-Knowledge (PID2023-151949NA-I00), funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.