Call For Contributions

If you are interested in presenting your work at the conference, please submit an anonymised abstract (maximum 500 words) for a talk of roughly 30 minutes by email to dre4bristol@gmail.com by the deadline of midnight on Monday 11th January 2027. 

Please also submit a separate document including the following information:

• Name

• Affiliation

• Position or Student Status

• If a PhD graduate, the year of your PhD award

• Whether you are interested in also attending the Embodiment and Intelligence in Philosophy and Robotics conference on 28-29th July

• Whether your proposed talk is:

  1. A general talk on Radical Embodiment

  2. A talk on Radical Embodiment in healthcare and psychopathology

  3. A talk on Radical Embodiment in AI and Robotics

Suggested topics

• Novel explanations of mental phenomena in terms of radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks

• Responses to challenges posed to radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks

• Proposals for integration or separation of radical embodied vs. enactivist frameworks

• Forging links between radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks and established issues in other areas of philosophy

• Radical embodiment and epistemic injustice

• Radically embodied accounts of ineffability

• Radical embodiment and bodily doubt

• Applications of radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks in healthcare

• Affordances in illness and old age

• Applications of radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks in psychopathology

• Affordances in psychopathology

• Applications of radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist frameworks in robotics

• Anti-representationalist approaches to understanding AI

• Critiques of computational functionalism in AI narratives from radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist perspectives

• Robotic affordances

• Radical embodied / ecological psychology / enactivist approaches to artificial consciousness

Programme Committee 

• Dr Ed Baggs (University of Southern Denmark)

• Prof Havi Carel (University of Bristol)

• Dr Max Jones (University of Bristol)

• Dr Vicente Raja (University of Murcia)

• Dr Miguel Segundo-Ortiz (University of Murcia)