Monday, June 5th – Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
RUB, Sitzungszimmer HG
(Seminar room in the mensa building / level of the Café bar)
Keynotes online via Zoom
Organizers: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers, New Brunswick, Dept. of Philosophy), Sen Cheng (RUB, Institute for Neuroinformatics), and Albert Newen (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II)
Monday, June 5th, 2023
DAY 1: Philosophy of Language, Mind and Science
Chair person: Robert Matthews, Rutgers
9:10 – 9:15 Welcome by Albert Newen
9.15 – 10.25 Keynote I – Mark Sprevak “In what sense do large language models understand what they say?”
10.25 – 11.10 AG McGee “Deterministic Doxastic Wrongings’”
11.10 – 11.40 Coffee Break
Chair person: Kristina Liefke, RUB
11.40 – 12.50 Keynote II: Dunja Šešelja “Towards epistemically responsible fact-checking of scientific claims
12.50 – 14.20 Lunch
Chair person: Brian McLaughlin, Rutgers
14.20 – 15.20 Keynote III: Francesco Marchi “The Rationality of Mental Imagery”
15.20 – 16.05 Julia Wolf: “Before Belief – Knowledge and Pretend Play”
16.05 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.15 Alfredo Vernazzani & Andrew Rubner “In Defense of a Bundle View of Perceptual Content”
17.15 – 18.25 Keynote IV – Frances Egan ““Belief and its Linguistic Representation”
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
DAY 2: Memory: An interdisciplinary approach
Chair person: Sen Cheng, RUB
9.00 – 10.10 Keynote V – Markus Werning “Predicting the Past From Minimal Traces: Episodic Memory Without Storage”
10.10 – 10.55 Roy Dings “What does it mean to accurately remember? Towards an account of situated authenticity in episodic memory.”
10.55 – 11.20 Coffee Break
11.20 – 12.30 Keynote VI – Pernille Hemmer “The Memorability of Supernatural Concepts”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Chair person: Pernille Hemmer, Rutgers
14.00 – 14.45 Sophie Siestrup “The influence of structure and content modification in episodic cueing on brain activity and memory”
14.45 – 15.30 Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran “How artificial agents learn and represent spatial behaviours”
15.30 – 15.50 Coffee Break
15.50 – 17.00 Keynote VII – Albert Newen “Memory, Self and selfless memories”
Remark: The keynote talks (but only those) will be available online. Please use the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86215674920?pwd=cFV1dWhXanNra2RNakkvWERXWmVtUT09
In the 3rd RUB-UFMG Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science, philosophers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais will discuss topics that include mind-body dualism, predictive processing and consciousness, the interface between perception and action, and conceptualism about perceptual content.
Each talk lasts for 30′ followed by a 10′ commentary and an open Q&A of 20′. The workshop is an online event. All talks will be streamed via Zoom.
14:30 – 15:30 Prof. Bruno Souza (UFMG) – Challenging Dualism and Brain-Centered Monism
Commentator: Wanja Wiese (RUB)
15:30 – 16:30 Gabriele Ferretti (RUB) – A Distinction Concerning Vision-for-Action and Affordance Perception
Commentator: Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho (UFMG)
14:30 – 15:30 Prof. Tobias Schlicht (RUB) – Predictive Processing and Consciousness
Commentator: Marco Aurélio Sousa Alves
15:30 – 16:30 Daniel Debarry (UFMG) – Conceptual Capacities and the Unity of Perception
Commentator: Alfredo Vernazzani (RUB)
All times are CET!
The workshop is an online event. All talks will be streamed via Zoom. Further information can be found on our website.
Workshop – Fr. the 2nd of June 2023 – Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Veranstaltungszentrum – Saal 3
Organized by: Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh) & Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Zoom-Link: Please send an email to Firuze.Mullaoglu@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
CFR: Workshop “Investigating consciousness in animals and artificial systems: A comparative perspective” (ICA 2023)
Organized by Albert Newen and Wanja Wiese
01.-02. June 2023, Bochum, Germany
For further and current information, click here
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Tentative Schedule:
Organizers:
Albert Newen and Wanja Wiese (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II)
Venue:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mercatorraum GA04/187 or online via Zoom (NEW: All talks will also be transmitted online)
Thursday, 1st of June 2023
09:30-10:40 Michael Tye: “Can a robot feel pain?”
10:40-11:25 Robert Matthews: “Knowing what it’s like to be an alien form of life”
11:25-11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:30 Albert Newen: „The interaction of theory-heavy and theory-light approaches to animal consciousness: The alarm theory of consciousness and cognitive profiles of animal consciousness”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:10 Eva Jablonka: “The evolution of animal consciousness: The learning route” (Note: The following talk is online only. However, present participants are not required to stream themselves.)
15:10-15:55 Leonard Dung: “Are tests of animal consciousness applicable to artificial systems?“
15:55-16:25 Coffee
16:25-17:10 Angelica Kaufmann: “Individual sentience profiles and why comparative neuroscience research needs them”
17:10-18:20 Cameron Buckner: “Artificial consciousness worth naturalizing: prospects for Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT4)”
19:00 Dinner
Friday, 2nd of June 2023
09:15-10:25 Henry Shevlin: “Mentalising beings: Human anthropomorphism and non-human consciousness”*
10:25-11:10 Wanja Wiese: “Understanding weak and strong artificial consciousness”
11:10-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:40 David Gamez: “Seeing is deceiving: Why consciousness cannot be inferred from behaviour in animals and artificial systems”
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15.00 Katharina Dornenzweig: “Sentience in AI and biology: A comparative study of recurrent processing as a way forward”
14:00-15:45 Simon Brown: “Animal points of view in spatiotemporal structures of experience”
15:45-16:05 Coffee
16:05-17:15 Elisabeth Hildt: “Artificial consciousness: Conceptual analysis and ethical implications”
Registration:
Please send an email to hilfskraefte-newen@rub.de by May 20th, 2023.
