CONFERENCES AND TALKS

Keynote lectures by our staff, and the conferences the Center takes part in.

Upcoming

  • Poster for Representation and Values in Science and Art, Banská Bystrica, 5 to 6 November 2026 Poster and abstracts (PDF)

    Keynote

    Representation and Values in Science and Art

    Sciences Without Subjects: How Astrobiology, AI, and Cognitive Science Reshape Scientific Values

    From the Center Kristina Šekrst keynote speaker

    Dates
    Place
    Banská Bystrica, Slovakia State Scientific Library, Lazovná 9
    Host
    Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Matej Bel University
  • Poster for Illusions of Consciousness in Humans and AI, Prague, 12 November, illustrated with five faces entwined in circuitry and blossom Poster (PDF)

    Keynote

    Illusions of Consciousness in Humans and AI

    Gödel, Escher, Backprop

    From the Center Kristina Šekrst keynote speaker

    Dates
    Place
    Prague, Czechia Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1
    Host
    Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
    Format
    In person and online

  • KeynoteScientific committee

    AI Perspectives 2026: Philosophy, Society and Technology

    Who Put the I in AI? Five Neurons and the Philosophy of Mechanistic Interpretability

    From the Center Kristina Šekrst keynote speaker Sandro Skansi scientific committee

    Dates
    Place
    Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Borongaj Campus, Borongajska cesta 83d
    Host
    University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies

    Conference website

  • Call for papers for ICPL 2027, Budapest, 7 to 8 May 2027, over a photograph of the Danube and the Hungarian Parliament Call for papers (PDF)

    KeynoteInternational partner

    6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics

    The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Higher Education: Support, Tolerance, or Restriction

    From the Center Renata Geld keynote speaker

    Dates
    Place
    Budapest, Hungary Károlyi–Csekonics Palace
    Host
    Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, with Khazar University, Baku
    Format
    Hybrid
    • Abstract submission
    • Notification of acceptance
    • Registration

    Conference website

  • Keynote

    Models of Consciousness 8

    From the Center Kristina Šekrst keynote speaker

    Dates
    Place
    Prague, Czechia
    Host
    Models of Consciousness Conferences

    Title to be announced.

Past

  • Keynote

    AI Literacy for Prospective Teachers in Early Childhood and Primary Education

    Everything Everywhere All At Once (Except for Understanding)

    From the Center Kristina Šekrst keynote speaker

    Dates
    Place
    Zagreb
    Host
    University of Zagreb

Selected conference talks

A selection of papers on cognitive science given by the Center’s staff.

  1. Lost in Transformers: Natural Language Autoencoders and the Limits of Machine Introspection 4th Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind Online Kristina Šekrstwith Barbara Geld
  2. All Work and No Play Makes LLM a Dull Boy Models of Consciousness 7 Copenhagen, Denmark Kristina Šekrst
  3. To Train a Mockingbird AISB Convention 2026 Brighton, United Kingdom Kristina Šekrst
  4. Thinking Without Neurons: How Fungi Remember Atypical Cases of Memory: From Minimal Agents to Human Development Grenoble, France Kristina Šekrst
  5. Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fata Morganas? Ernst Mach Workshop XIII: Conscious AI? Functionalism and its Alternatives Prague, Czechia Kristina Šekrst
  6. Machine Learning and Essentialism Philosophy in Informatics VI Warsaw, Poland Kristina ŠekrstSandro Skansi