WMG22: Warwick MindGrad 2022 The University of Warwick Coventry, UK, November 19-20, 2022 |
Conference website | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/graduates/mindgrad/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmg22 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 23, 2022 |
Submission deadline | September 23, 2022 |
MindGrad is a long-established and well-respected graduate conference held annually in the University of Warwick under the auspices of the Warwick Mind & Action Research Centre. This year, the conference will be open-themed. The conference will be held in-person on the 19th and 20th of November.
Submission Guidelines
We are currently seeking graduate students interested in presenting at this year's MindGrad conference. We welcome papers of up to 5,500 words (excluding bibliography), suitable for a 45-minute presentation. Papers should be accompanied by an abstract of around 300 words. Please note that after each 45-minute presentation, there will be a 15 minute response before opening the floor to attendees for a 30-minute Q&A session. We strongly encourage graduates speakers from all backgrounds and career stages to submit.
Given that this year’s MindGrad is open-themed, the conference welcomes paper submissions under the broad umbrella of the Philosophy of Mind. We are also eager to receive papers approaching the Philosophy of Mind from a historical or otherwise non-traditional starting point. To offer some possible avenues of exploration, the following broad themes/questions are of particular interest to the conference:
- Mind, Reality & Objectivity: Is objective knowledge of the world possible? In what sense, if any, are minds part of the objective world? What is the relationship between experience of the world and knowledge?
- Perception & Cognition: What is the relation between thought and perception? Is human perception essentially rational/conceptual? In what sense, if any, is perception the source of concepts? What is the relation between human and non-human other-animal cognition and perception?
- The Social Mind: To what extent, if at all, and in what sense, are our mental activities essentially social? How should such sociality be explained? Is there a role for an appeal to second person thought/awareness in explaining our awareness of others and its relation to self-consciousness? What is the relationship between skepticism about other minds and individualist theories of mind?
- Mind, Value & Emotion: Are values part of the ‘fabric of the world’? Can value judgements qualify as expressions of knowledge? What is the role of emotion in our understanding of value? What is ‘moral identity’ and how should it figure in our account of self and other understanding?
Committees
Organizing committee
- Oscar North
- Aline Rickli
- Johan Heemskerk
Invited Speakers
- Professor Lucy O'Brien (UCL)
- Professor Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Venue
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Contact
wma.philosophy.events@gmail.com
Sponsors
The Analysis Trust
The Royal Institute of Philosophy
The University of Wariwck Department of Philosophy