The network organizes annually Congresses for Doctoral Researchers in Philosophy.
Upcoming
The 2025 Congress for Doctoral Researchers in Philosophy in Tampere University.
Mon 20 – Wed 22 October 2025
Monday 12-18 Päätalo C109 (lecture room C6)
Tuesday 10-18 Päätalo C109 (lecture room C6)
Wednesday 10-12 Päätalo D13
Congress Venue: Tampere University (main campus), Päätalo (Main building)
Getting there. Map of Campus Area
Accommodation: Scandic Tampere Koskipuisto, Koskikatu 5, 33100 Tampere.
Congress dinner: Panimoravintola Plevna, Itäinenkatu 8, (Finlayson area), Tuesday 7 pm
Instructions to the chairs (may be useful to presenters too).
Possible credits are to be negotiated by the doctoral researchers themselves at their own units.
The abstracts and papers (and all questions) should be sent via e-mail to tommi.vehkavaara@tuni.fi
CALL FOR PAPERS
Send your one page abstract via e-mail to tommi.vehkavaara@tuni.fi at the latest 31 May 2025. The abstract should include the title of the presentation together with the name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the participant. The name(s) of the supervisor(s) of the dissertation should also be indicated.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
31 May 2025 Submission of one-page abstracts
10 June 2025 Notification of acceptance
7 October 2025 Registration with full papers (10-12 pages)
20–22 October 2025 The congress itself
General instructions:
The format of the congresses is the following:
- About 40 min. slots (20 min talk + 20 min discussion) for each individual speaker.
- Recruitment of competent supervisors/commentators.
- No parallel sessions.
- All the participants will be accommodated by the organizer
- Congress dinner
Besides the abstract, the participant must submit also the full paper later upon registration (after the notification of acceptance), and it should be 10-12 pages in length, and presentable in about 20 minutes. The full paper is sent (only) to the commentator for the preparation of comments.
Both the accepted abstract and the registration with a full paper are required for the participation in the congress!
The presentations can be given either in English or in Finnish, but the use of English is strongly encouraged.
PAST CONGRESSES
The first eight congresses were held October 2016-2024 in Tampere, each as a three day event (Mon-Wed) with 17 to 28 presentations. In 2020 the congress was cancelled because of the COVID-19.