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:
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