On Thursday 9.10.2025. the MetPhil project team organized the eleventh workshop in the series. The topic of this workshop was a talk given by Boran Berčić and Vito Balorda titled “Conceptual Analysis and Scientific Explanation”.
In the first part of the workshop Berčić and Balorda delivered their talk in which they claim that although philosophy in general contains important elements of conceptual analysis it’s primary concern is building true models and theories about the human mind, linguistic meaning, just society etc.
The second part of the talk was dedicated to a Q&A session where the audience presented their questions and comments to the authors.
This workshop has advanced the goals outlined by the project by engaging in a focused discussion on the nature of philosophy, the role of conceptual analysis within it, the notions of model and theory building, the role of introspection in philosophy etc. The insights gained at this workshop will also be relevant and useful to the other members of the research group and their respective fields of inquiry.
The minutes of this workshop are attached below.