[hopos-g] CfP; Special issue of Belgrade Philosophical Annual

[Janko Nešić]

The Belgrade Philosophical Annual (BPA) invites submissions for a special issue devoted to current methodological and conceptual debates at the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

In recent decades, the philosophy of mind and cognitive science have undergone significant transformations under the influence of the competing paradigms of computational modeling, predictive processing, 4E and 5E cognition, as well as the resurgence of mechanistic explanations. Yet, foundational and methodological questions remain open: What counts as an adequate explanation of cognition? How should conceptual analysis interact with empirical testing and/or computational modeling? Are representational and non-representational frameworks incommensurable? And how should we understand the epistemic and metaphysical commitments of cognitive science itself?

This special issue aims to bring together contributions that address core philosophical and methodological challenges in contemporary theories of mind and cognition, broadly construed. We welcome papers that clarify, critique, or extend current approaches, as well as those that propose new ways for integrating philosophical and scientific inquiry.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• The role and limits of modeling in cognitive science
  
  
• Mechanistic vs. dynamical explanation of cognition
  
  
• Representationalism, anti-representationalism, and a possible via media between the two frameworks
• The status of mental representation and its alternatives
  
  
• Methodological pluralism and theoretical unification in cognitive science
  
  
• Conceptual engineering and revision in philosophy of mind
  
  
• Predictive processing, free energy principle, and its philosophical foundations
  
  
• Embodied, embedded, enactive, extended, and ecological cognition
• The nature of cognitive kinds: realism, pluralism, or eliminativism?
• The interface between philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and machine cognition

Submission Guidelines:

• Final deadline for submissions: 15 January 2026

• Manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review according to the BPA guidelines available here.

• Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 6,000 words (including notes and references).

• Submissions should be sent to vanja....@f.bg.ac.rs or petar....@f.bg.ac.rs

Guest Editors:

Vanja Subotić, Research Associate, University of Belgrade—Faculty of Philosophy
Janko Nešić, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Social Sciences, Belgrade

Publication timeline:

• Submission deadline: 15 January 2026

• Notification of reviewers’ decision: 28 February 2026

• Publication: April 2026

For any inquiries, don't hesitate to get in touch with the guest editor or technical editor at: vanja....@f.bg.ac.rs or petar....@f.bg.ac.rs

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