Bochum-Rutgers Workshop 2023
Monday, June 5th – Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
RUB, Sitzungszimmer HG
(Seminar room in the mensa building / level of the Café bar)
Keynotes online via Zoom
Organizers: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers, New Brunswick, Dept. of Philosophy), Sen Cheng (RUB, Institute for Neuroinformatics), and Albert Newen (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II)
Monday, June 5th, 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 AG McGee “Deterministic Doxastic Wrongings’”
11.10 – 11.40 Coffee Break
Chair person: Kristina Liefke, RUB
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 III: Francesco Marchi “The Rationality of Mental Imagery”
15.20 – 16.05 Julia Wolf: “Before Belief – Knowledge and Pretend Play”
16.05 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.15 Alfredo Vernazzani & Andrew Rubner “In Defense of a Bundle View of Perceptual Content”
17.15 – 18.25 Keynote IV – Frances Egan ““Belief and its Linguistic Representation”
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
DAY 2: Memory: An interdisciplinary approach
Chair person: Sen Cheng, RUB
9.00 – 10.10 Keynote V – Markus Werning “Predicting the Past From Minimal Traces: Episodic Memory Without Storage”
10.10 – 10.55 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 VI – Pernille Hemmer “The Memorability of Supernatural Concepts”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Chair person: Pernille Hemmer, Rutgers
14.00 – 14.45 Sophie Siestrup “The influence of structure and content modification in episodic cueing on brain activity and memory”
14.45 – 15.30 Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran “How artificial agents learn and represent spatial behaviours”
15.30 – 15.50 Coffee Break
15.50 – 17.00 Keynote VII – Albert Newen “Memory, Self and selfless memories”
Remark: The keynote talks (but only those) will be available online. Please use the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86215674920?pwd=cFV1dWhXanNra2RNakkvWERXWmVtUT09