Workshop with Susanna Schellenberg: The Nature of Perspectives

Date: Dec. 11-12, 2025

Venue: Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 3 @ RUB & Online via Zoom (link see below)

Registration is free, for IN PERSON participation, please register via sending a mail to: center-mindcognition@rub.de

It’s an honour and a pleasure to host Prof. Susanna Schellenberg in Bochum. She is DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY & COGNITIVE SCIENCE at Rutgers University. She is an international expert on philosophy of perception. In her recent publications she also discusses aspects of the self and artificial intelligence. Those are the basis for her new upcoming book, in which she aims to discuss the nature of visual and cognitive perspectives.

She will present three lectures on this new book project ‘The Nature of Perspectives’ and we will have a few related talks by early career researchers.

Program:

11th of December 2025

10:15 – 11:45: Keynote 1: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers)

                          “The Nature of a Subjective Perspective”

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:00: Sara Papić (Milan)

                          “The Perspectival Content of Thought”

14:00 – 14:45: Max Minden Ribeiro (Lund)

                          “Pastness as Nested Perspectives”

14:45 – 15:15: Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:45: Keynote 2: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers)

                          “What, if anything, is a Self?”

12th of December 2025:
Friday event is an online only day: please find the zoomlink below!

10:00 – 10:45: Ayoob Shahmoradi (RUB)

                          “Seeing as Seeing-as”

10:45 – 11:30: Julia Wolf (RUB)

                          “Between my perspective and yours – a developmental account of perspective”

11:30 – 11:45: Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:15: Keynote 3: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers)

                          “Personal Identity in a Large Language Model”

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83978673667?pwd=lWa4oXbD7PYowvm0wnII8Hb3RNOBUF.1

Organization:

Albert Newen & Team

Directions to Venue (Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 3, RUB)

From Bochum Main Station:

  1. Take the underground U35 (in the direction “Hustadt”) to “Ruhr-Universität” (ca. 10min, 7 stops).

After arriving at “Ruhr-University”:

  1. Take the stairs/elecator/or escalator from the tram line to get to the main campus level. Turn right, walk across the bridge and down the campus until you reach the university library.
  2. Pass the library on the right, then take the broad stairs downward onto a square. Stay on the right side of the square.
  3. Pass the big audimax-building on the right side and walk past the mensa building until you reach the next stairs.
  4. Go down the stairs another level until you reach the main entrance of the Veranstaltungszentrum, which is on the hind side of the mensa building).