Workshop – Ruhr-Universität Bochum – 01.-02. September 2022

Program
09:00 arrival and coffee
09:30 David Papineau (King’s College/CUNY): Problems for representationalism
10:45 coffee
11:00 Alex Byrne (MIT): Representationalism defended
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Umrao Sethi, online (Brandeis): Accounting for seeming presence
14:45 coffee
15:15 Albert Newen (RUB): The ALARM Theory of Consciousness
16.30 coffee
16.45 Laura Gow (Liverpool): Wannabe Representation
19.00 Dinner (Living Room, Bochum)

Friday September 2nd:
09:00 arrival and coffee
09:30 Stefanie Grüne (Berlin): Are representationalism and naïve realism compatible?
10:45 coffee
11:00 Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck): Against cosmic brains
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Katalin Farkas (CEU Vienna): Representation by sensory qualia is not arbitrary
14:45 coffee
15:15 Heather Logue (Leeds): Purpose and procedure in the metaphysics of perceptual experience
16.30 coffee
16.45 Tim Crane, online (CEU Vienna): Is perceptual consciousness essentially representational?

The bird‘s eye view on the evolution of cognition

11th and 12th of August 2022 – Ruhr University Bochum – Veranstaltungszentrum

We have a great lineup of confirmed speakers including, but not limited to, Dmitry Aronov, Herman Wagner, and Thomas Bugnyar.
Join us for two days of birds, brains and behavior!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Jonas Rose and the Neural Basis of Learning lab

Date: July 13, 2022 – July 15, 2022

Location: online event via Zoom

Organization: Leonard Dung & Eline Kuipers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany

Keynote speakers:  Elizabeth Irvine & Alistair Isaac & Catherine Stinson

Program

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Wednesday 13 July 2022

14:00-15:00 Maja Griem (Ruhr Universität Bochum) – What Follows Is Play: Intentional Communication in Non-Human Animals

15:00-16:00 Renee Ye (University of Sheffield) – Theoretical Commitment in the Comparative Study of Consciousness

16:00-16:20 Break

16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion

17:00-17:30 Fail Academy Part 1

17:30-19:00 Elizabeth Irvine (Cardiff University) – Thinking About Gradualism in the Evolution of Subjectivity

Thursday 14 July 2022

14:00-15:00 José Carlos Camillo (Universidade Federal de Goiás) – Does Episodic Memory Represent? An Enactivist Perspective

15:00-16:00 Rebecca Dreier (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – The Nature of Episodic Memory: Belief as Basis Constructivism

16:00-16:20 Break

16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion

17:00-17:30 Fail Academy Part 2

17:30-19:00 Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh) – Aristotelian Cognitive Science

Friday 15 July 2022

14:00-15:00 Céline Budding (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Tacit Knowledge as a Target of Intervention in Neural Networks

15:00-16:00 Louis Longin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – Blamed But Not Praised: How AI Advisors Change the Dynamic of Human-AI Interaction

16:00-16:20 Break

16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion

17:00-17:30 Social Event

17:30-19:00 Catherine Stinson (Queen’s University) – Adversarial Perception in Deep Neural Networks

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This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science an opportunity for in-depth discussion and feedback on their work. Each accepted speaker will be paired with another early career researcher working on a connected topic. The paired speakers will receive each other’s papers in advance and prepare a detailed commentary. Each paper will then get 1 hour: 30 minutes for the speaker’s talk, 10 minutes for the paired speaker’s commentary, and 20 minutes for discussion. 

We invite papers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, broadly understood. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Epistemology of perception
• Mental representations
• Bodily awareness and sensations
• Social cognition and joint action
• The problem of consciousness
• Naturalization of intentionality
• Animal cognition and comparative psychology
• Philosophy of psychiatry and psychopathology
• Philosophy of AI

We welcome submissions from members of minorities and underprivileged groups.

Eligibility: Submissions are invited from PhD students or researchers who received their PhD less than 2 years before the submission deadline.

Submission instructions: Abstracts ready for blind review (1000 words) with a separate cover sheet (listing name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and date of PhD conferral or expected conferral) should be submitted to bochumgradconf@gmail.com by April 30th, 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by late May. Accepted speakers will be asked to send their full papers (of no more than 10,000 words) by the end of June. 

For any queries and clarifications please do not hesitate to contact us at: bochumgradconf@gmail.com

Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories & Rationality

Please register to acquire zoom link for participation. Send Email to: firuze.mullaoglu@rub.de Further info: www.tobiasschlicht.com

Organized by Dr. Nina Poth, Dr. Krzysztof Dolega, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

Upcoming Talks

April 21 MICHAEL STREVENS (NYU)
Irrationality and Rationality in Science 

April 28 SAM GERSHMAN (Harvard) 
How to never be wrong 

May 5 | 6 pm !!! (CET) CAILIN O’CONNOR (Irvine) 
Multiple Mechanisms for Polarization 

May 12 C. THI NGUYEN (Utah) 
The Seductions of Clarity 

May 19 SARAH FISHER (Vienna)
Reading between the lines: Language-based Inferences and (Ir)rationality

June 02 HUGO MERCIER (Paris) 
Not Born Yesterday: Why people are less gullible than we think 

June 23 MONA SIMION (Glasgow) 
Politically Motivated Reasoning and Evidence Resistance 

June 30 ÅSA M. WIKFORSS (Stockholm) 
Resisting the Facts: Is it Irrational? 

July 7 CHRIS RANALLI (Amsterdam) 
Norms of Conspiracy Theorizing 

July 14 REGINA RINI (Toronto) 
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JULY 11-12th 2022

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Keynote Speakers:

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck College)

Nico Orlandi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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