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 announced when confirmed.

All speakers will be given a 45 minute slot for a presentation followed by a 45 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 (1000 words maximum) for a paper suitable for the presentational format (4000 - 5000 words). The paper should be submitted upon notification of acceptance as a speaker.

Submission deadline: April 1st, 2023.

Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2023.

Please submit papers via e-mail with “2023 Conference Submission” in the subject line to niklas.dahl@fil.lu.se.

For more info, see the PhilEvent page: https://philevents.org/event/show/106681?fbclid=IwAR0TcDGwBXpXYIsLhTeb3mG5AA5IsRFqx3vzXWISox0TwFwgfrv-bTfwm8g