Monday, June 5^th – Tuesday, June 6^th, 2023

RUB, Sitzungszimmer HG
(Seminar room in the mensa building / level of the Café bar)
Keynotes online via Zoom

Organizers:

Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers, Department of Philosophy, RuCCS), Sen Cheng (RUB, Institute for Neuroinformatics), and Albert Newen (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II)

Monday, June 5^th, 2023 –

DAY 1: Philosophy of Language, Mind and Science

Chair person: Robert Matthews, Rutgers

9:10 – 9:15 — Welcome by Albert Newen

9.15 – 10.25 — Keynote I – Mark Sprevak: “In what sense do large language models understand what they say?”

10.25 – 11.10 — Short Talk I – AG McGee: “Deterministic Doxastic Wrongings’”

11.10 – 11.40 — Coffee Break

Chair Person: Kristina Liefke

11.40 – 12.50 — Keynote II – Dunja Šešelja: “Towards epistemically responsible fact-checking of scientific claims

12.50 – 14.20 — Lunch

Chair person: Brian McLaughlin, Rutgers

14.20 – 15.20 — Keynote II – Francesco Marchi: “The Rationality of Mental Imagery”

15.20 – 16.05 — Short Talk II: Isabel Uriagereka Herburger: “Can Hallucination Provide Evidence?”

16.05 – 16.30 — Short Talk III – Alfredo Vernazzani & Andrew Rubner: “In Defense of a Bundle View of Perceptual Content”

16.30 – 17.15 — Coffee Break

17.15 – 18.25 — Keynote III – Frances Egan: “Constructing Intentionality”

19.00            — Dinner

Tuesday, June 6^th, 2023 –

DAY 2: Memory: An interdisciplinary approach

Chair person: Sen Cheng, Bochum

9.00 – 10.10 — Keynote IV – Markus Werning: “Predicting the Past From Minimal Traces: Episodic Memory Without Storage”

10.10 – 10.55 — Short Talk IV – Roy Dings: “What does it mean to accurately remember? Towards an account of situated authenticity in episodic memory.”

10.55 – 11.20 — Coffee Break

11.20 – 12.30 — Keynote V – Pernille Hemmer: “Applications of an integrative Bayesian model of memory”

12.30 – 14.00 — Lunch

Chair person: Pernille Hemmer, Rutgers

14.00 – 14.45 — Short Talk V – Albert Newen: “Selfless Memories”

14.45 – 15.30 — Short Talk VI – Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran: “How artificial agents learn and represent spatial behaviours”

15.30 – 15.50 — Coffee Break

15.50 – 17.00 — Keynote VI – Oliver Wolf: “Stressed Memories”

Workshop – Fr. the 2nd of June 2023 – Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Veranstaltungszentrum – Saal 3
Organized by: Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh) & Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Zoom-Link: Please send an email to Firuze.Mullaoglu@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Organized by the IGSN and the Research Department of Neuroscience. For the full program and further information visit https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn/events/conference/2023-04-25/

CFR: Workshop “Investigating consciousness in animals and artificial systems: A comparative perspective” (ICA 2023)

Organized by Albert Newen and Wanja Wiese

01.-02. June 2023, Bochum, Germany

For further and current information, click here

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Tentative Schedule:

Organizers:

Albert Newen and Wanja Wiese (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II)

Venue:

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mercatorraum GA04/187 or online via Zoom (NEW: All talks will also be transmitted online)

Thursday, 1^st of June 2023

09:30-10:40         Michael Tye: “Can a robot feel pain?”

10:40-11:25         Robert Matthews: “Knowing what it’s like to be an alien form of life”

11:25-11:45         Coffee

11:45-12:30         Albert Newen: „The interaction of theory-heavy and theory-light approaches to animal consciousness: The alarm theory of consciousness and cognitive profiles of animal consciousness”

12:30-14:00        Lunch

14:00-15:10        Eva Jablonka: “The evolution of animal consciousness: The learning route” (Note: The following talk is online only. However, present participants are not required to stream themselves.)

15:10-15:55        Leonard Dung: “Are tests of animal consciousness applicable to artificial systems?“

15:55-16:25        Coffee

16:25-17:10         Angelica Kaufmann: “Individual sentience profiles and why comparative neuroscience research needs them”

17:10-18:20         Cameron Buckner: “Artificial consciousness worth naturalizing: prospects for Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT4)”

19:00                     Dinner

Friday, 2^nd of June 2023

09:15-10:25         Henry Shevlin: “Mentalising beings: Human anthropomorphism and non-human consciousness”*

10:25-11:10         Wanja Wiese: “Understanding weak and strong artificial consciousness”

11:10-11:30        Coffee

11:30-12:40         David Gamez: “Seeing is deceiving: Why consciousness cannot be inferred from behaviour in animals and artificial systems”

12:40-14:15        Lunch

14:15-15.00         Katharina Dornenzweig: “Sentience in AI and biology: A comparative study of recurrent processing as a way forward”

14:00-15:45         Simon Brown: “Animal points of view in spatiotemporal structures of experience”

15:45-16:05        Coffee

16:05-17:15         Elisabeth Hildt: “Artificial consciousness: Conceptual analysis and ethical implications”

Registration:
Please send an email to hilfskraefte-newen@rub.de by May 20th, 2023.

From March 23.-25. 2023, the next RCL will be presented by Prof. Kim Sterelny (Sydney), as always in the context of a Graduate workshop including presentations by PhD students and postdocs (PhD completed in 2017 or later). Presentations should address topics related to the main topic of the lecture series.

CALL for papers:
Therefore, we invite PhD students and postdocs up to five years after PHD completion to submit abstracts (max. 1000 words), making thesis and argument transparent, by submitting on Easy Chair (link to be found on the homepage). Papers will be selected based on a blind review process. The presenting students who will be selected based on a blind peer-review process will receive a financial support: within Germany 100 Euro, Rest of Europe 200 Euro, Rest of the World 300 Euro.
Submission deadline February the 2nd 2023. Please post your submission on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/RCL2023

For the full program and further information, please click here