Fifth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

The Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop is an annual event by and for graduate students and early career researchers. We provide a platform where people entering the academic job market have the opportunity not only for in-depth feedback on their work, but also for personal engagement and career advice from respected senior academics. Our workshop gives an opportunity for accepted speakers to be paired with other early career researchers working on a related topic. The paired researchers receive each other’s papers in advance, prepare detailed commentaries, and present online where they receive feedback from other members of the academia. The workshop will also include a number of slots for socialising and networking, as well as a “Fail Academy” session, where we will be sharing our stories of perseverance and resilience in the academic world.

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
• The role of language and metaphors in cognition
• 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 are also committed to being an equal opportunity workshop and invite contributions from groups underrepresented in philosophy and cognitive science

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 [email protected] 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: [email protected]