Hybrid Workshop: Norms and Social Understanding from a Comparative Perspective

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Thursday, April 4th – Saturday, April 6th, 2024

Join in Person at RUB or online via Zoom.

Organizers:
Leda Berio
Kristin Andrews
Albert Newen

Invited Keynotes:
Thomas Bugnyar
Judith Burkhardt
Hans-Johann Glock
Sally Haslanger
Dan Kelly
Richard Moore
Hannes Rakoczy

Further Speakers:
Dorna Behdadi
Bart Geurts
Maja Griem
Martyna Meyer
Mirko Prokop

Program:

Thursday, April 4th

9:10 – 9:15           Welcome

9:15 – 10:15         Albert Newen: Social Understanding and Normative Behavior in Human and Non-Human Animals: A General Framework

10:15 – 11:00      Mirko Prokop: Sensorimotor Normativity: A Pluralistic Proposal

11:00 – 11:30      Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30      Leda Berio: Action-guiding norms

12:30 – 14:00      Lunch

14:00 – 15:10      Thomas Bugnyar: Raven social cognition

15:10 – 15:55      Maja Griem: Are you serious? Investigating Play Signals Yields Important Insights for Animal Communication

15:55 – 16:25      Coffee Break

16:25 – 17:35      Sally Haslanger (Online Presentation): Social Cognition and Social Regulation: Uptake and Resistance

19:00                     Dinner*

Friday, April 5th

9:00 – 10:10         Judith Burkhardt: Normativity in joint action: A plausible evolutionary pathway?

10:10 – 10:55      Dorna Behdadi: Collaborative Training Protocols as an Example of Interspecies Dyadic Norm Formation

10:55 – 11:25      Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:35      Hannes Rakoczy: Is there such a thing as implicit Theory of Mind in young children (and adults, and non-human animals)?

12:35 – 14:15      Lunch

14:15 – 15:15      Kristin Andrews: The value of social norms in animal cultures

15:15 – 16:00      Bart Geurts: Micro Normativity

16:00 – 16:30      Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:40      Dan Kelly: Why is Moral Progress Annoying? Norm Psychology, Affective Friction, and Social Change

18:00                     Dinner*

Saturday, April 6th

9:00 – 10:10         Richard Moore: Normative communicative acts in human and animal communication

10:10 – 10:55      Martyna Meyer: The Ecological Model of Interactions for Mindshaping Approaches

10:55– 11:25       Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:35      Hans-Johann Glock: ‘Animal Normativity? — Hold the Horses!’

12:35                  Farewell

*(cost covered only for speakers)