Rudolf-Carnap Lectures 2025 with Peter Carruthers

Schedule

Venue: Zemos–Building, Ruhr University Bochum (see map below)
Keynote-Lectures will be available on Zoom!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82175454633?pwd=X1VwsNqCwYNeiAoYQ0X4XMUPLD264i.1

Meeting-ID: 821 7545 4633 | Kenncode: 47xbd9

Monday, March 17th, 2025

12.30 – 14.00      Keynote 1: Peter Carruthers: The Interpretative 
                               Sensory-Access Theory of Self-Knowledge: The 
                               Case of Inner Speech

14.00 – 14.30      Coffee Break 

14.30 – 15.15      Romain Bourdoncle (Collège de France)

                               Inner Speech in Borderline Personality Disorder

15.15 – 15.45Coffee Break

15.45 – 16.30      Rasmus Overmark (University of St Andrews):

                               Competence and performance in mindreading 
                               development

16.30 – 17.15      Mathijs Geurts (University of Salzburg): Your 
                               guess is as good as mine: explaining speaker 
                               deference in conversation

17.15 – 18.00      Break

18.00 – 19.30      Keynote 2: Public Lecture: Peter Carruthers

                               Understanding Human Motives: Hedonism, 
                               Altruism, and Tribalism

19.30                     Dinner at QWest on Campus

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 

09.00 – 09.15      Welcome/Coffee

09.15 – 10.45      Keynote 3: Peter Carruthers: The Nature of 
                               Pleasure and Desire: Where Philosophers Go 
                               Wrong 

10.45 – 11.00      Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45      Sergiu Spatan (Technical University Dresden):

                               On the Feelings of (Un)certainty

11.45 – 12.30      Renee Ye (Ruhr-University Bochum):  

                               AI Companionship and Human Motives

12.30 – 12.45      Coffee Break

12.45 – 13.30      Frederik Junker (University of Copenhagen):

                               From Daydreams to Decisions

13.30 – 14.45      Lunch

14.45 – 17.00      Excursion (optional) to Exhibition Dortmunder U
                               “Wahrnehmen & Verstehen” (with guided tour in 
                               English, info see below)

19.00                     Dinner “Living Room” (Luisenstr.9-13, Bochum)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

09.15 – 09.30      Welcome/Coffee

09.30 – 10.15      José Curbera-Luis (University of Edinburgh)

                               Collapsing the distinction between weak and 
                               strong illusionism

10.15 – 11.00      Maria Fülberth (University of Konstanz):

                               Motivation Matters: the correct way to control 
                               belief formation

11.00 – 11.20      Coffee Break

11.20 – 12.50      Keynote 4: Peter Carruthers: Stop Caring About 
                               (Phenomenal) Consciousness

13.00                     Lunch and End

Scientific Organization: 
Albert Newen & Tobias Schlicht, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Find more information on our webpage: https://rudolf-carnap-lectures.jimdosite.com/lectures-2025/