1th Avant Colloquium

The Avant Project team decided to experiment with the formula of its conference events. The result is a two-day peripatetic colloquium that we propose, entitled “Cognition and its Ecosystem: Does our language adequately capture the relationships between them?” It will take place in Athens, Greece, on April 9-10, 2025.

There are two related topics of the first colloquium. One topic is the impact of a boom of the ecological perspective (broadly understood) in the study of cognition, which appeared in anthropological studies earlier than in cognitive science. The second is the difficulties that the language of philosophy poses for us when we want to talk about the cognitive structure of the world, and not just of our minds – even though we would expect philosophy to be precise, adequate, and, when necessary, experimental and revolutionary.

Participants will receive one or more articles from us, which will then be the basis for a short paper and discussion.

Once we arrive in Athens, after a short meeting, we will walk from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens along a designated route, stopping at designated points, towards the Acropolis. The second day will be similar, but with a different destination.

The planned outcome of the colloquium will be a collaborative, multi-authored article (to be prepared upon return from the trip).

If you are not a member of Avant Project and are interested in participating in the colloquium, please contact us to discuss and prepare your submission at colloquium@avant.edu.pl.

Call for external submissions: closed

Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 10

Preliminary colloquium program (available to participants): before March 31

Coordinator of the colloquium series: Witold Wachowski (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
More information: colloquium@avant.edu.pl