Call for Papers | Metacognition: new developments and challenges

Call For Papers: Metacognition: new developments and challenges  

Part of the ERC ‘Metacognition of Concepts’ Project (PI Nicholas Shea)

Submission deadline: March 6, 2020

Organizers: Joulia Smortchkova (Oxford/IP London) & Nicholas Shea (Oxford/IP London)

Invited Speakers

• Ophélia Deroy (Munich) 
• Steve Fleming (UCL) 
• Louise Goupil (IRCAM)  
• John Morrison (Columbia) 
• Josef Perner (Salzburg) 
• Joëlle Proust (CNRS) 
• Alex Rosati (Michigan)

Topic

In recent years the scope of metacognition has expanded. Metacognitive processes seem to be involved in practically all cognitive faculties: perception, action, memory, learning, decision making, and conceptual thought are some examples. It encompasses many cases where metacognition operates without the person engaging in deliberate monitoring or control. Evidence for metacognition also extends to pre-verbal infants and non-human animals. But are there fundamentally different types of metacognition involved in different cases? And how should we capture the distinction: procedural vs. analytic, experience-based vs. information-based, implicit vs. explicit, core vs. late-developing, or some other way?

Guidelines for submission

Scholars from philosophy and the cognitive sciences are invited to submit an abstract which will be considered for either a poster or a short talk (15 to 20 minutes) on any topic related to metacognition. Please send your submissions to Emily Gardner mailto:emily.gardner@sas.ac.uk and indicate in the body of the email your name and affiliation.

Submission documents should be prepared for anonymous review and attached as a Word document to the email. The anonymized document should contain:

the title of the presentation

the abstract (1000 words max), which outlines the main argument or the main empirical contribution within the field of metacognition  

whether you have a preference for a talk or a poster presentation 

Important dates

Deadline for submissions: March 6, 2020

Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2020

Conference dates: May 12-13, 2020

Registration

Details of how to register for the conference will be published at a later date. Registration will be free for those presenting. A small number of those selected to present may be offered travel and accommodation expenses.

For enquires about the conference please get in touch with Joulia Smortchkova joulia.smortchkova@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No. 681422. For further information about the ‘Metacognition of Concepts’ project, see the project’s  website: http://www.nicholasshea.co.uk/

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