Dear Colleagues, We warmly invite you to the graduate conference "From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism", taking place from May 8 to May 10, 2025, at the University of Vienna. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and online participation. Information about registration and how to obtain the Zoom link can be found below. The first two days of the conference will be held at Aula am Campus Hof 1.11, featuring workshops on Conceptual Change and Climate Activism, alongside presentations by PhD and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy and cognitive science. On the third day, the conference will move to the Sky Lounge at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, focusing on further research presentations and concluding with a discussion on future research directions. The symposium will also coincide with a panel discussion on The Future of Knowledge, AI, and Climate Science, organised jointly with the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub. All conference participants are warmly invited to attend the panel and the subsequent reception. 

 You can find the full schedule of the conference below and on the conference’s website, alongside other details concerning venue information and registration procedure: https://mindstomovements.carrd.co/. Participation is free of charge and open to all. If you wish to attend the conference, please register here: https://forms.gle/BGicd3G3kMJHadtQ7. Participants joining online will receive a Zoom link upon registration. If you have any inquiries, please contact us at: mindstomovements.cogsci(a)univie.ac.at. The symposium is supported by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub and the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Warm regards,
 The Organising Committee
 Ohan Hominis
 Maria Fedorova
 Xueyi Yao
 Bojin Zhu Conference Schedule Thursday, May 8 Coffee & Registration 09:00 – 10:00 Reasoning under Uncertainty: Hope, Anxiety, and Bounded Rationality Juliette Vazard (Central European University) 10:00 – 10:55 Flooding with disinformation Ákos Szegőfi (Central European University) 11:00 – 11:35 Coffee Break 11:35 – 11:50 Divergence Of Collective Memories Across Different Sociopolitical Identities In Türkiye (Online) Zeynep Eylül Gül (Koç University) 11:50 – 12:25 Strategic Ignorance in Early Childhood: Turning a Blind Eye to a Partner’s Cheating Tindaya Déniz (Leipzig University) 12:30 – 12:55 Lunch 13:00 – 14:30 Workshop: Conceptual Change 14:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:00 Labeling events in political discourse (Online) Mengyuan Qi (University of Pittsburgh) 16:00 – 16:35 From Perception to Possibility: Reformulating Analogical Reasoning through Affordance Landscapes Mohsen Forghani (University of Warsaw) 16:40 – 17:05 Novel, Uncertain or Surprising? Young Children’s Exploration When Simultaneously Facing Different Curiosity Triggers Kai-Xuan Chai (Technical University of Munich) 17:10 – 17:35 Evening Panel Discussion 17:45 – 19:00 Reception 19:00 Friday, May 9 Coffee & Registration 09:00 – 10:00 Perspectival Models: What Cognitive Science Can Learn From Climate Science Moritz Kriegleder (University of Vienna) 10:00 – 10:55 Higher-Level Cognition in Predictive Processing: Grounded Cognition & Conceptual Spaces Jannis Friedrich (German Sport University Cologne) 11:00 – 11:35 Coffee Break 11:35 – 11:50 Predictive Processing and the Extended Mind Thesis: A Persuading Story of Indifference (Online) Muzaffar Abass Wazir (Indian Institute of Technology) 11:50 – 12:25 How in-group opinions skew perceptions of polarization in the climate debate Peter Steiglechner (Complexity Science Hub) 12:30 – 12:55 Lunch 13:00 – 14:30 Workshop: Climate Activism 14:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:00 Masking: Epistemic Harm, Testimonial Smothering, and the Medicalization of Neurodivergence in Healthcare (Online) Roxy Alexander (American University) 16:00 – 16:35 Blind spots in the mind’s eye Andreas Arslan (Central European University) 16:40 – 17:05 Ecological Perception and (Information) Anticipation Martyna Meyer (University of Southern Denmark) 17:20 – 17:25 Beyond Belief: An Enactive Account of Culture and Its Existential Dimension Felipe Machado (University of Vienna) 17:30 – 17:55 Saturday, May 10 Coffee 09:00 – 10:00 The Revitalization of Democracy in Serbia: Participant Observation and the Student Movement Aleksandra Knežević (University of Belgrade) 10:00 – 10:55 Escaping Russia, Trapped by Identity: National Identity Negotiation in Light of In-group Wrongdoing Elena Mikhina (Slovak Academy of Sciences) 11:00 – 11:35 Coffee Break 11:35 – 11:50 Bargaining between the sexes: Gender inequalities in households Angarika Deb (Central European University) 11:50 – 12:25 Children’s preference for democracy erodes in light of personal reward Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University) 12:30 – 12:55 Closing & Group Lunch 13:00 – 13:30