Call for Papers

We invite proposals that directly contribute to or intersect with the theme of the conference. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Experimental, theoretical and methodological issues of comparative cognition
• Evolutionary origin of human logic
• Non-inferential processes in cognition
• Formation of concepts
• Metacognition and its role in reasoning
• Spatial and numerical cognition in animals
• Planning, memory and mental time travel
• Continuity vs. discontinuity between human and non-human cognition
• Evidence of and challenges to the uniqueness of human cognition

Submission of both theoretical papers and empirical research papers, as well as the submission of research paper at earlier stages of work are encouraged.

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, they should be in English, and be submitted in Adobe pdf format by the 30th October 2013 to the organizers (ndolcini@um.edu.mo; mpiazza@unich.it).

Notification of accepted proposals will be sent shortly after the deadline for abtsract submission.

We plan to publish selected and updated papers in an academic journal or in a book.

Organizers

Nevia Dolcini
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
email: ndolcini@um.edu.mo

Mario Piazza
Department of Philosophy, University of Chieti-Pescara
email: mpiazza@unich.it