Workshop: Mental Files in Philosophy and Psychology: Merits and Limits

5-6 December 2024

Ruhr-University Bochum, Venue: SSC 2/148

Program:

Thursday December 5th

Lunch:  12.-00-13.30 (meeting at north main entrance of the building GA at11:55, see description)

Start Workshop:  13.30

Talk 1: 13.30-14.30 Francois Recanati, Collège de France: Reference Through Indexed Files

Break: 14.30 – 14.45

Talk 2:  14.45 – 15.45 Julia Wolf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Files, Links and Indexes – The Development of Perspective Taking in the Mental Files Framework

Break: 15.45-16.15

Talk 3: 16.15-17.15 Francesco Marchi, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: The A-B-C of believing – Part 1: A constructive account of beliefs

Dinner: 18.30

Friday December 6th 

Talk 4:   9.00-10.00 Albert Newen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: The A-B-C of believing – Part 2: Mental files as mediating beliefs and the memory-attention systems

Break:  10.00-10.15

Talk 5:   10.15-11.15 Joulia Smortchkova, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) & Michael Murez, Collège de France & Nantes Université: First Impressions and person-files

Break:  11.15-11.30

Talk 6: 11.30-12.30 Christian Scholz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Modelling Aphantasia Competency in the Mental Files Framework

Lunch: 12.30-13.45

Talk 7:  13.45-14.45 Josef Perner, Universität Salzburg: The Developmental Impact of Managing Coreferential Files

Scientific Organization: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen, Julia Wolf

Please register: Attendance is free, but we have limited seats and, thus, registration is mandatory for in person participation only. To register, please, send an email to hilfskraefte-newen@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Venue details will be send then)

The workshop is part of the DFG funded D-A-CH project “Structure and Development of Understanding Reasons and Actions” (PIs: T. Schlicht, A. Newen, H.-J. Glock, J. Perner)

Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86361404677?pwd=qfnoAterPGm2YaLbaWYmvDERBP7tqc.1