Call for Abstracts:
The “Consciousness and Reality” graduate conference
Bucharest, Romania and online
June 10-11, 2022
https://philevents.org/event/show/99974
Abstracts submission deadline: June 1, 2022
The “Consciousness and Reality” graduate conference aims to bring together students and researchers from around the world in order to develop a deeper understanding of consciousness in reality and possible virtual worlds.
At its first edition, the conference will take place 10-11 June 2022, between 12-8 PM, local time for Bucharest, Romania. Presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes long Q&A.
It will have a mixed format, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only, or face to face at the event’s location (if so, their session will enjoy a live audience, but it will also be streamed to remote participants).
Keynote speakers:
Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri)
Hong Yu Wong (Tȕbingen University)
Panels/topic areas:
- Consciousness in the context of virtual reality (experience, action, immersive virtual realities)
- Consciousness and first-person data (heterophenomenology, first person data)
- Explaining phenomenal consciousness
The conference programme will be updated with contributed talks as soon as the deadline of the call for papers passes and acceptance notifications are sent out. For more details, please see the associated call. For any questions, please email consciousnessandreality@gmail.com.
Call for abstract submissions:
We encourage MA and PhD students, as well as early PhD’s and postdocs, to contribute research abstracts related to the event’s topic areas. Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words.
Abstracts will receive full consideration if sent before June 1, 2022 at the following address: consciousnessandreality@gmail.com – Word or PDF attachments preferred, with the message titled “abstract submission”. Please write your identifying details in the body of the email, and leave the attached abstract anonymized. (All submissions will undergo a process of blind peer review.) Notifications of acceptance will be sent out before June 5.
A version of this call may also be found at: https://philevents.org/event/show/99974
The conference is organized by students of the “Mind the Brain” master’s programme in cognitive science of the Department for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. For more details, please see: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/master-of-arts-in-cognitive-science-mind-the-brain/