Archive

The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures were held for the first time in 2007. Over the course of these years, they have been host to many prestigious speakers from a variety of backgrounds. Here, we have compiled a list of each year’s key speaker and the talks they gave:

2023: Prof. Kim Sterelny

1. Cumulative Culture: The Standard Model and its Problems

2. The Challenge of Sorcery

3. Cumulative Culture and Niche Construction

4. Cumulative Culture in Unequal Worlds

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

2022: Prof. Cecilia Heyes

1. What happened to mirror neurons?

2. The cultural evolution of thinking

3. Rethinking norm psychology

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

2019: Prof. Frances Egan & Prof. em. Robert Matthews (Rutgers)

1. Representation in Cognitive Science (Egan)

2. Glossing the theory: Recovering the Person (Egan)

3. Some bad news for Relationalism about the Attitudes (Matthews)

4. A case for Dispositionalism about the Attitudes (Matthews)

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

2018: Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger (Mainz)

  1. What is the deepest level of self-consciousness?
  2. Mental autonomy, cognitive agency, and abstract levels of self-identification
  3. Minimal phenomenal experience: A new theory about consciousness as such
  4. Virtuelle Realität und Künstliche Intelligenz. Neue Fragen für Gesetzgebung und Angewandte Ethik

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2017: Prof. Frank C. Jackson (ANU)

  1. How to think about perceptual content and how this delivers „feel“
  2. The nature of Mind: What kind of materialist should I be?
  3. Conceptual Analysis for explainers and predictors
  4. Two-dimensionalism for Mooreans

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2016: Prof. em. Patricia S. Churchland (San Diego)

  1. Neurophilosophy: New developments concerning representing and valuing
  2. The impact of social neuroscience on moral philosophy
  3. Nerve Agents. You and your amazing old-fangled reward system

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2015: Prof. John Campbell (Berkeley)

  1. General versus Singular Causation in the Mind
  2. Imagination versus Scientific Explanation
  3. Interventions on the Mind
  4. The Validity of a Psychological Construct

2014: Prof. Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts)

  1. Explaining Mind. Cultural Evolution as the Bridge from Absolute Ignorance to Intelligent Design
  2. The Competence of nature
  3. If Brains are computers, what kind of computers are they?
  4. How memes equip our brains for comprehension

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2013: Prof. David J. Chalmers (ANU/NYU)

Structuralism, Space, and Skepticism

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2012: Prof. Ned Block (NYU) & Prof. Susan Carey (Harvard)

  1. The origin of concepts: the case of natural number (Carey)
  2. How the nature of attention can decide among the major
    theories of perception (Block)
  3. How iconic memory shows that consciousness is fundamentally
    different from cognition (Block)
  4. Insights about what we see from crowded perception (Block)
  5. Core Cognition of the Social World (Carey)

Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2011: Prof. Tim Crane (Cambridge) & Prof. Katalin Farkas (Budapest)

1. Non-existent objects (Crane)

2. Psychologism, semantics, and the non-existent (Crane)

3. What is distinctive of human thought? (Crane)

4. Extended Minds (Farkas)

5. Extended Selves (Farkas)

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2010: Prof. David Papineau (King’s College London)

1. The phenomenal concept strategy

2. Mind the Gap

3. The intuition of distinctness

4. Mental causation

5. Are humans just physical machines?

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2009: Prof. John Perry (Stanford)

1. Meaning and the Self

2. Self-Knowledge

3. Freedom and the Self

4. Borges’ Selves

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

2008: Prof. Alva Noë

1. Conscious Reference

2. Magic realism and the limits of intelligibility

3. Perception without Representation

4. Novel Experiences

5. Presence in Pictures

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

2007: Prof. Shaun Gallagher (Florida)

1. Embodied Subjectivity and self-agency

2. Multiple aspects of agency: phenomenology and neuroscience

3. Understanding others in action and narrative

4. Embodiment and understanding other agents: neural resonance and simulation theory

5. Embodiment, intersubjectivity, and moral personhood

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen