Lisbon Feminist Philosophy of Mind Workshop

IFILNova (Lisbon Mind, Cognition, and Knowledge Group and ArgLab) and the MAP Chapter at the University of Lisbon are hosting a workshop on feminist philosophy of mind on June 14-15. The conference will gather philosophers at different career stages, with a focus on early-career researchers, working on topics in feminist philosophy of mind. Esa Diaz-Leon (LOGOS-Barcelona) will deliver the keynote address.

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

• The nature of bias and prejudice and their cognitive and perceptual implementation; 

• The internalization of oppressive social structures;

• The psychology of social norms;

• Culture, gender, and the mind; 

• Gender essentialism and its cognitive implementation;

• The nature and psychology of social identities; 

• The role of attention and salience structures in bias; 

• Feminist approaches to traditional questions in philosophy of mind, such as the mind-body problem; 

• Feminist critiques of cognitive science;

• Decolonial and Latinx approaches to philosophy of mind;

• 4E cognition and feminist philosophy;

• Feminist phenomenology.