The Center for Mind & Cognition (CMC) is an interdisciplinary platform at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The objective of the Center for Mind & Cognition is to investigate the enigmatic and at the same time fascinating nature of the mind and its constitutive cognitive processes by tapping the full potential of interdisciplinary collaborations. A better understanding of cognition from multiple perspectives will contribute to the development of an empirically anchored integrative understanding of the architecture of mind and cognition. The special strategy of CMC is to investigate the same normal or pathological behavior from different perspectives including evolutionary, ontogenetic, mechanistic, computational, functional, social and especially philosophical explanations. Read More
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Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
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 joins as Humboldt Fellow
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
IGSN Conference: Extinction Learning
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Follow the Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures Online (only keynote talks)!
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All News
| Date | Speaker / Title / Links | Type | Organizer | Venue |
| June 18, 2024 12:15 pm to July 9, 2024 1:45 pm | Julia Langkau (Université de Genève) Title TBA |
Online Lecture | Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium Organizers: Kourken Michaelian and Nikola Andonovski (Université Grenoble Alpes) Markus Werning and Sofiia Rappe (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) Zoom-Link |
Online Lecture |
| July 2, 2024 12:15 pm to July 2, 2024 1:45 pm | Claudia Maienborn (Tübingen) TBA |
Hybrid Lecture | Bochum Language Colloquium Kristina Liefke, Daniel Gutzmann, Markus Werning Zoom-Link |
GABF 04/257 & Zoom |
| July 2, 2024 4:00 pm to July 2, 2024 5:30 pm | Francesca Sargolini (Aix Marseille Université) TBA |
Online Lecture | Colloquium: Brains in Space Zoom-Link |
Online Lecture |
| July 8, 2024 1:15 pm to July 8, 2024 2:45 pm | Dr. Mary Flaim (Biopsychology Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience RUB) Title tba |
Hybrid Lecture | Biopsychology Research Colloquium Zoom-Link |
IB 6/127 / Zoom |
| July 9, 2024 12:15 pm to July 9, 2024 1:45 pm | Cameron Buckner (University of Houston) Title TBA |
Online Lecture | Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium Organizers: Kourken Michaelian and Nikola Andonovski (Université Grenoble Alpes) Markus Werning and Sofiia Rappe (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) Zoom-Link |
Online Lecture |