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NeuroExp 2025
Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience: From empirical case studies to philosophical analysis

Updates:

  • Alas, Nick Shea had to cancel his talk.

  • We are delighted to have gained an excellent new keynote speaker: Matteo Colombo.

  • Alas, Corey Maley and Arnon Levy had to cancel their talks as well. Our amazing postdoc Matej Kohár will fill one slot. 

  • Due to the high number of registrations that we were unable to accommodate, we will stream and record the keynote lectures. The link to the live stream can be found here on the morning of the conference (at around 11:45 CET).

Philosophical analysis of scientific explanation has undergone a great shift from armchair theorising to empirically inspired and informed theories. On the forefront of this shift has been work on explanation in the special sciences. 

 

This workshop, organised by the research group on Mechanistic and Representational Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience (MeReX) aims to showcase both empirical neuroscientific work, which can serve as the basis of philosophical theorising, and philosophical work engaging with empirical case studies in neuroscience. Our focus is on exploring the explanatory practices in cognitive neuroscience under the headings of mechanistic explanation, representational explanation and computational explanation. 

Keynotes

Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh, Philosophy)

Matteo Colombo (Tilburg, Philosophy)

Fatma Deniz (TU Berlin, Neuroscience)

Holger Krapp (ICL, Neuroscience)

Grace Lindsay (NYU, Neuroscience)

Jonathan Najenson (Bochum, Philosophy)​

Markus Werkle-Bergner (MPI Berlin, Neuroscience)

Peter Schulte (Umea, Philosophy)

Dates

Conference: 19th-21st February 2025

Submission deadline: 29th September 2024
Notification of decision: 1st November 2024

Registration: 1.11.2024-31.1.2025 via workshop website

CFP

- CLOSED -

We especially welcome work focusing on less commonly discussed (but representative) cases and patterns of explanation. We  invite submissions for presentations suitable for 45-minute slots (30  min talk + 15 min Q&A). Interested applicants should submit a  500-word  abstract making the topic and argument transparent. The submissions should be prepared for blind review.

Submit via workshop website  after creating account.

Venue

Technical University Berlin

Straße des 17. Juni 135

10623 Berlin

Programme

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