Recently, we had the honor to welcome the first awardee of the Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett for outstanding scientific achievements. You can watch the award lecture as well as the other three Carnap lectures here.

Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the author of the bestselling books How emotions are made (New York 2017) and Seven and a half lessons about the brain (New York 2020), translated into numerous languages. In addition, she is the editor of several collections and author of many academic and popular articles. 

To read the RUB News article, klick here.

Sanja Srećković (hosted by Prof. Newen: 2024-2026)

Sanja Srećković is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy II at Ruhr-University Bochum hosted by Professor Albert Newen. Her main research focus is on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Comparative Cognition and Philosophy of AI. Prior to her stay at RUB she was a fellow of the European Philosophy of Science Organisation (EPSA) at the University of Geneva. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Belgrade working on the Applicability of Scientific Results to the Philosophy of Music. More recently, her projects have a focus on philosophy of emotions, animal cognition and philosophy of AI. Recent publications include, e.g.

Berber, A., & Srećković, S. (2023). When something goes wrong: Who is responsible for errors in ML Decision-making?. AI & SOCIETY. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01640-1

Srećković, S., Berber, A., & Filipović, N. (2022). The automated Laplacean demon: How ML challenges our views on prediction and explanation. Minds and Machines, 32, 159-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-021-09575-6

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