Lund Early Career Conference 2023: Trust, Hope, and Rationality

The Lund Early-Career Conference is a forum dedicated to forging connections between research and researchers in selected topics from both theoretical and practical philosophy as well as cognitive science. After the success of last year’s conference on Perception and Responsibility, we have decided to institute it as an annual occasion. The conference is aimed at Ph.D-candidates and early-career researchers working in philosophy or related fields, such as psychology or cognitive science, relevant for the theme of the conference.

Each year we select a theme based on topics of interest from each of the subdivisions of the Lund Philosophical department (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, and Cognitive Science) with the goal of finding under-explored connections ripe for interdisciplinary investigation. This year we’ve chosen the theme ‘Trust, Hope, and Rationality’, with the aim of bringing together epistemologists, ethicists, philosophers of language, and cognitive scientists to tackle questions of how these topics are related to each other.

Keynote speakers will be Sarah Stitzlein, Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati and Jerker Denrell, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School.