Workshop with Jonathan Birch: The Edge of Sentience

Workshop with Jonathan Birch!
June, 12th & 13th, at Ruhr University Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 1

Please register via: franziska.klasen@rub.de.

Program:

Thursday, June 12
09:30-10:45 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): Keynote 1
10.45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Elisa Pasquini (Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento): Central GABAergic neuromodulation of nocifensive behaviours in bumble bees
11.45-13:15 Cassandra Williams (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto): How speculative is biopsychism really?
13:15-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:15 Sanja Sreckovic (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): Deliberation over value: Affective metacognition in nonhuman animals
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:30 Rony Hirschhorn, Niccolo Negro, Liad Mudrik (School of Neuroscience & Psychology, Tel Aviv University/CIFAR, Toronto): Does consciousness matter morally? A survey on Folk and Expert Intuitions
16:30-18:00 Roundtable Students meet Author: Jonathan Birch with MA Students RUB & TUDO (and Coffee)
19:30 Dinner in Town

Friday, June 13
09:30-10:45 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): Keynote 2
10.45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Renee Ye (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): The Edge of Artificial Sentience: Resistances and Implications
11.45-13:15 Leonard Dung (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): Emotion, the Body, and the moral standing of AI and neural organoids
13:15-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:15 Farhan Lakhany (University of Nebraska, Omaha): Title
15:15-16:00 Amelie Klara Uhlig (Ethics & Philosophy of Technology, TU Berlin): Sentience and Terminolo-gical Experimentation
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.45 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): Keynote 3
18.30 Dinner in Town

For more information, visit the website: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/ii/bewusstsein/index.html.de