VIDEOS from TALKS at Ruhr-University Bochum
The videos in this section have been recorded as part of an ongoing lecture series at the Ruhr-University Bochum. They will be available online for six months after the date of the respective lecture.

Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2025 with Prof. Peter Carruthers

Prof. Peter Carruthers (Maryland University)

Lecture 1: The interpretative sensory-access theory of self-knowledge: The case of inner speech

Lecture 2: Understanding human motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and Tribalism (Public Lecture, Award Lecture)

Lecture 3: The nature of pleasure and desire: where philosophers go wrong

Lecture 4: Stop caring about (phenomenal) consciousness

Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2024 with Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University, Boston)

Lecture 1: Three Lessons About Emotion

Lecture 2: Concepts as Tools For Living (Award Lecture)

Lecture 3: Three Lessons About the Brain (or, Some Stuff I’ve Learned from Studying Emotion)

Lecture 4: Relational Realism as a Framework for Understanding the Mind

Augmentative Technology

Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)

Constructing animal affect profiles

Heather Browning (University of Southampton)