Women in Analytic Philosophy: Past and Present, University of Warsaw, February 12–14, 2024

University of Warsaw, University of Vienna, and the Humboldt University of Berlin, and supported by the Central Network for Teaching and Research in Academic Liaison.Its main organiser was Anna Brożek: thanks to her efforts, the conference boasted an extensive and varied program full of speakers going well beyond the original three participating institutions.The three days were packed with presentations dedicated exclusively to female philosophers working in the very broadly construed analytical tradition in the past 120+ years.The main body of the program consisted of talks focusing on individual philosophers, ranging from short student presentations serving as an overview of a particular philosopher's life and work, to in-depth discussions with a much narrower focus.It is still an unusual thing to see multiple presentations about the same female philosopher in one event.In this conference, this sort of thing happened as a matter of fact, and I found this aspect particularly satisfying, as proof of a certain momentum building up in historical scholarship on some of these philosophers.Frederique Janssen-Lauret opened her presentation with general remarks about the reasons for the lack of recognition of women's contributions in the history of early analytic philosophy.While such reasons might appear numerous, they are really variations on the same theme: sexism.Janssen-Lauret then made an argument for Constance Jones's primacy in the discovery of the sense-reference distinction.Earlier that same day, Maria van der Schaar together with Jeanne Peijnenburg argued for a yet different interpretation of Jones's work, highlighting some important differences between Jones's and Frege's concepts.