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”