PhD Courses in Denmark

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen

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

Topics

Methodology, sociality, embodiment, recognition, perceptual presence, spatiality, ethics, truth, selfhood, rationality, emotion and acculturation, evident, a priori, assertoric, apodictic, necessary, self-relation, Young, I-Thou, self-directed emotions

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 advanced MA and PhD students. Post Docs are also invited to apply.

Keynote speakers

ECTS

Participation in the Summer School gives 2,5 ECTS points, 4,0 if you give a talk. The PhD school at the Faculty of Humanities 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

Please register using the link in the box no later than 11 May 2025.

Language: English

Max. numbers of participants: 120

Course fee

DKK 1,600 including VAT. This fee will also cover coffee, one common dinner, a reception, and an excursion through Copenhagen.
No funding is available from the University of Copenhagen or the Center for Subjectivity Research.

Programme

Monday 25 August

8:30 Registration and coffee
9:30 Introduction
9:40

Keynote lecture:
Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lifeworld realism?
10:50 Q & A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30

TBA
Student presentation
12:10 Lunch break
13:10

TBA
Student presentation
13:50 Discussion groups
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Q & A in plenum
16:10 Introduction to the Center for Subjectivity Research
16:30 Reception at CFS (room 14-3-46)

 

Tuesday 26 August

9:30

Keynote lecture:
Michelle Montague, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
The Evident and the A priori in Brentano
10:45 Q & A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30

TBA
Student presentation
12:10 Lunch break
13:10

TBA
Student presentation
13:50 Discussion groups
14:50 Coffee break
15:20 Q & A in plenum
16:00 Travel time to excursion
16:30

Harbour Tour in Copenhagen:
Leaving From: Havnebadet, Islands Brygge
Arriving at: Havnebadet, Islands Brygge (approx. 18:00)

 

Wednesday 27 August

09:30

Keynote lecture:
Denis McManus, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Self-expression is All-things-considered Judgment
10:45 Q & A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30

TBA
Student presentation
12:10 Lunch break
13:10

TBA
Student presentation
13:50 Discussion groups
14:50 Coffee break
15:20 Q & A in plenum (until approx. 16:00)
19:00 Common dinner at Riz Raz (Store Kannikestræde 19)

 

Thursday 28 August

9:30

Keynote lecture:
Lucy Osler, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
You, My Body: A Second-Person Account of Embodied Self-Relation?
10:45 Q & A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30

TBA
Student presentation
12:10 Lunch break
13:10

TBA
Student presentation
13:50 Discussion groups
14:50 Coffee break
15:20 Q & A in plenum (until approx. 16:00)

 

Friday 29 August

9:30

Keynote lecture:
Søren Overgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Colour Primitivism and Colour Causation
10:45 Q & A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30

TBA
Student presentation
12:10 Lunch break
13:10

TBA
Student presentation
13:50 Discussion groups
14:50 Coffee break
15:20 Q & A in plenum
16:00 Concluding remarks
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