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, Department of Philosophy, RuCCS), 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 — 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 6th, 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”