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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LAST SESSION POSTPONED TO FALL! BOCHUM RUTGERS LECTURE SERIES
Time slots for all talks:
Session: 16:00 – 18:40 (CET) / 10:00am – 12:40am (EST)
(1st talk: 16:00 / 10am, 2nd talk: 17:25 / 11:25am)
Login details for all talks:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81557439258?pwd=S3lrNXlMQksxRWFwcmVpMkhxSmZaQT09
Meeting-ID: 815 5743 9258
Kenncode: 6CAG4D
MAY 19TH 2022
“Perception Revisited”
1.) Susanne Schellenberg (Rutgers), “Perspectival Variance and Perceptual Constancy”
2.) Peter Brössel (RUB), “Perception and Updating”
JUNE 2ND 2022
“The Hard Problem of Consciousness”
1.) Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers), “Subjectivity in an Objective World”
2.) Tobias Schlicht (RUB), “The Unbearable Uselessness of Zombies”
JUNE 23RD 2022
“Applied Formal Semantics”
1.) Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), “The Cognitive Roots of Adjectival Meaning”
2.) Kristina Liefke (RUB), “What are Experiential Attitudes?”
October 20TH 2022 (New Date)
“Theories of Meaning and Concepts”
1.) Albert Newen (RUB), “The Social foundation of Meaning: Lingustic Understanding is Person Understanding”
2.) Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), “Meaning”
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
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?
Avian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference
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
Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
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
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
You can convert these times to your timezone here.
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
Why do people believe weird things? Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vice
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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Bayesian Learning & Reasoning
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)
For the full program and further information, please click here
All News
| Date | Speaker / Title / Links | Type | Organizer | Venue |
| September 1, 2022 9:00 am to September 2, 2022 6:00 pm | The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience | Workshop | Tobias Schlicht, Albert Newen Institute of Philosophy II Ruhr University Bochum |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| September 16, 2022 (All day) | GAP.11 – Satellite Workshop “Scaffolding & Niche Construction: Conceptualization & Applications” | Prof. Albert Newen, Prof. Achim Stephan, Dr. Sabrina Coninx, & Dr. Gregor Hörzer | Humboldt Universität Berlin | |
| October 20, 2022 5:00 pm to October 20, 2022 7:45 pm | Postponed to Fall Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) & Albert Newen (RUB) “Theories of Meaning and Concepts” | Lecture | Bochum-Rutgers Lecture Series Organized by: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers) & Albert Newen (RUB) Zoom-Link |