Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

The Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind is an annual PhD course organized by the Center for Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

The Summer School will provide essential insights into central themes within the philosophy of mind, viewed from a phenomenological perspective. It will consist of a mixture of keynote lectures, PhD presentations and seminars (32 hours total), aimed at PhD students. Advanced MA students and Post Docs are also encouraged to apply.

Topics

Consciousness, time, meaning, metaphysics, French phenomenology, Husserl, AI, Large Language Models, information processing, thinking, subjectivity, relevance, living being, self-sustainment, socially mediated self-understanding, collective identity, self-other intertwining.

Keynote speakers

Thomas Fuchs, University of Heidelberg
Inga Römer, University of Freiburg
Louise Richardson, University of York.
Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Søren Overgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

ECTS

Participation in the summer school gives 2,5 ECTS points, 4,0 if you give a talk. We will provide participants with diplomas on the condition that they are present at least 80 % of the time and fill in an evaluation form the last day of the summer school.

Abstracts

The summer school programme will include ten presentations selected from submitted student abstracts.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Programme

Monday 22 June

8:30 - 9:30	Registration and coffee
9:30 - 9:40	Introduction
9:40 - 10:50	Keynote lecture: Søren Overgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Presentational Character of Experience
10:50 - 11:15	Q & A
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10	Giulia Santelli (LMU Munich, Germany) Agency and the Limits of Empirical Justification: Toward a Translational Account
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 - 13:50	Niklas Noe-Steinmüller (Heidelberg University, Germany) Are virtual worlds really worlds? Using Husserl’s notion of “world” to describe differences in the constitution of virtual and non-virtual environments
13:50 - 15:00	Discussion groups
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 - 16:10	Q & A in plenum
16:10 - 16:30	Introduction to the Center for Subjectivity Research
16:30	Reception at CFS (room 16-1-16)

Tuesday 23 June

9:30 - 10:45	Keynote lecture: Thomas Fuchs, University of Heidelberg, Germany Can machines think?
10:45 - 11:15	Q & A
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10	Elisabetta Angela Rizzo (University of Dundee, Scotland) How Phenomenology Challenges Neurotypical Perspectives on Autism
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 - 13:50	Shiho Sugiura (Hokkaido University, Japan) Beyond Self-Care: The Intersubjective Disturbance of Self-Love in Survivors of Childhood Abuse
13:50 - 14:50	Discussion groups
14:50 - 15:20	Coffee break
15:20 - 16:00	Q & A in plenum
16:00 - 16:30	Travel time to excursion
16:30	Harbour Tour in Copenhagen: Leaving From: Havnebadet, Islands Brygge Arriving at: Havnebadet, Islands Brygge (approx. 17:30)

Wednesday 24 June

9:30 - 10:45	Keynote lecture: Inga Römer, University of Freiburg, Germany The Ambiguity of Time
10:45 - 11:15	Q & A
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10	Simon Tardif (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) Was Dasein extended or scaffolded all along?
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 - 13:50	Philipp Quell (University of Vienna, Austria) Beyond Epistemic Normativity – Essay on (an)other apodictic evidence
13:50 - 14:50	Discussion groups
14:50 - 15:20	Coffee break
15:20 - 16:00	Q & A in plenum

Thursday 25 June

9:30 - 10:45	Keynote lecture: Louise Richardson, University of York, UK Grief and memory
10:45 - 11:15	Q & A
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10	Sofia Livi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) Background Taste
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 - 13:50	Kelvin Li (Boston College, USA) Anhedonia and the Structure of World-Disclosure: A Phenomenological Challenge to the Dissociability Model
13:50 - 14:50	Discussion groups
14:50 - 15:20	Coffee break
15:20 - 16:00	Q & A in plenum (until approx. 16:00)
19:00	Common dinner at Riz Raz (Store Kannikestræde 19)

Friday 26 June

9:30 - 10:45	Keynote lecture: Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Self-consciousness, self-knowledge, and knowledge of and with others
10:45 - 11:15	Q & A
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10	Wanda von Knobelsdorff (University of Oxford, UK) Afraid of the Other: A Sartrean Account of Social Anxiety
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch break
13:10 - 13:50	Shahd Omar (Middlesex University, UK) Being-With the artificial Other: Rethinking Intersubjectivity in human-AI Romantic Relationships
13:50 - 14:50	Discussion groups
14:50 - 15:20	Coffee break
15:20 - 16:00	Q & A in plenum
16:00	Concluding remarks