Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the Fifth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Date: July 13, 2022 – July 15, 2022

Location: online event via Zoom

Organization: Leonard Dung & Eline Kuipers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany

Keynote speakers:  Elizabeth Irvine & Alistair Isaac & Catherine Stinson

Submission deadline: April 30, 2022

This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science an opportunity for in-depth discussion and feedback on their work. Each accepted speaker will be paired with another early career researcher working on a connected topic. The paired speakers will receive each other’s papers in advance and prepare a detailed commentary. Each paper will then get 1 hour: 30 minutes for the speaker’s talk, 10 minutes for the paired speaker’s commentary, and 20 minutes for discussion. 

We invite papers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, broadly understood. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Epistemology of perception
• Mental representations
• Bodily awareness and sensations
• Social cognition and joint action
• The problem of consciousness
• Naturalization of intentionality
• Animal cognition and comparative psychology
• Philosophy of psychiatry and psychopathology
• Philosophy of AI

We welcome submissions from members of minorities and underprivileged groups.

Eligibility: Submissions are invited from PhD students or researchers who received their PhD less than 2 years before the submission deadline.

Submission instructions: Abstracts ready for blind review (1000 words) with a separate cover sheet (listing name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and date of PhD conferral or expected conferral) should be submitted to bochumgradconf@gmail.com by April 30th, 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by late May. Accepted speakers will be asked to send their full papers (of no more than 10,000 words) by the end of June. 

For any queries and clarifications please do not hesitate to contact us at: bochumgradconf@gmail.com

JULY 11-12th 2022

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Keynote Speakers:

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck College)

Nico Orlandi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

For the full program and further information, please click here

Recent Debates on Situated Cognition
Summer Semester 2022

Prof. Albert Newen
Dr. Sabrina Coninx

Time slots for all talks:
Session: 16:00 – 18:40 (CET) / 10:00am – 12:40am (EST)
(1st talk: 16:00 / 10am, 2nd talk: 17:25 / 11:25am)

Login details for all talks:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81557439258?pwd=S3lrNXlMQksxRWFwcmVpMkhxSmZaQT09
Meeting-ID: 815 5743 9258
Kenncode: 6CAG4D

MAY 19TH 2022
“Perception Revisited”
1.) Susanne Schellenberg (Rutgers), “Perspectival Variance and Perceptual Constancy”
2.) Peter Brössel (RUB), “Perception and Updating”

JUNE 2ND 2022
“The Hard Problem of Consciousness”
1.) Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers), “Subjectivity in an Objective World”
2.) Tobias Schlicht (RUB), “The Unbearable Uselessness of Zombies”

JUNE 23RD 2022
“Applied Formal Semantics”
1.) Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), “The Cognitive Roots of Adjectival Meaning”
2.) Kristina Liefke (RUB), “What are Experiential Attitudes?”

JUNE 30TH 2022
“Theories of Meaning and Concepts”
1.) Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), “Meaning”
2.) Albert Newen (RUB), “The Social foundation of Meaning: Lingustic Understanding is Person Understanding”

Online Workshop – May 23-25 2022

We invite submissions for oral presentations (40 min. + 20 min. for discussion)
at 4ememory@gmail.com.
Abstract length: 250-500 words.
Deadline: March 15 2022.
Notification: April 1 2022.
We encourage early career researchers, especially those from underrepresented
genders and minority backgrounds, to submit an abstract.

Invited Speakers:
Louise Barrett
(Psychology, University of Lethbridge)
Richard Heersmink
(Philosophy, Monash University)
Francesco Ianì
(Psychology, University of Turin)
Anco Peeters & Marta Caravà
(Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum)
John Sutton
(Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Macquarie University)
Evelyn Tribble
(English, University of Connecticut)

Organizers:
Marta Caravà, Roy Dings (Ruhr University Bochum), Chris McCarroll
(National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) and Anco Peeters (Ruhr University Bochum).