4th Lund Early-Career Conference: Theoretical and Practical Reasons

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. 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 within the subdivisions of the Lund Philosophical department (Theoretical Philosophy and Practical Philosophy) with the goal of finding under-explored connections ripe for interdisciplinary investigation. This year we’ve chosen the theme ‘Theoretical and Practical Reasons’, with the aim of bringing together ethicists, epistemologists, and philosophers of action to tackle questions of how these topics are related to each other.

Dates: September 26th - 27th, 2025

The keynote speaker will be announced shortly. All speakers will be given a 45-minute slot for a presentation followed by a 30-minute Q&A session beginning with questions and remarks from an assigned commentator.

All submissions should be prepared for blind review and should include a separate document containing the following information: your name, paper title, institutional affiliation, e-mail
address, and phone number. The initial submission should consist of an extended abstract (500-1000 words) for a paper suitable for the presentational format (4000 - 5000 words). Accepted papers should be submitted one month before the conference to give commentators suitable time to prepare their comments.

Submission deadline: July 13th, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2025.

Please submit papers via e-mail with “2025 Conference Submission” in the subject line to [email protected].