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Psychopathology and the ‘Scaling Up’ Problem
Zoom Conference 15.00-17.30 (CET), October 5-7, 2020 This conference will focus upon the extent to which phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are, or must be, 'representation hungry'. Whilst explicitly anti-cognitivist phenomenological...

Third Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science
*please note that the details on the poster are not correct. Check the text below for current information Platform and Registration The event will be held using the Zoom platform over four consecutive weeks. We would like to ask for registration before the event at...

The dynamics of other-deception and self-deception
Dr. Anna Wehofsits (University of Munich) 09.06.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin information: ZOOM:https://tu-dortmund.zoom.us/j/98310437212?pwd=ZzlYRHlKSWhxUHRvYTJuSCtXU1hpQT09 Meeting-ID: 983 1043 7212...

What can we learn about mineness from dépersonnalisation? Alexandre Billon (Department of Philosophy, University of Lille) 05.05.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin information:...

Import Theory: The Social Making of Consciousness Wolfgang Prinz (Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) 23.06.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin...

Wie unsere Gedanken unsere Wahrnehmung beeinflussen
Bei dieser Studie brauchten die Testpersonen viel Mut, etwas ganz Neues auszuprobieren. Zu wissenschaftlichen Zwecken ließen sie sich hypnotisieren. Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchungen war eine Frage von Prof. Dr. Albert Newen. Der Philosoph und Leiter des „Center...

Zooming in and out on one’s life: Autobiographical representations at multiple time scales
Arnaud D'Argembeau (Department of Psychology, University of Liège) 28.04.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoom Login information: ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/388855144?pwd=a3RsblV4bjYwbXNEUlZacGVBQm9rdz09 Meeting ID:...

Training Perception and Action to Do the Right Thing
Prof. Robert Goldstone (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)16.03.2020 - 14.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion)RUB, GA 04/187 (Mercatorraum) Abstract: By one account, formal thought in mathematics and science requires developing deep construals that run...

“Designing real-time teacher augmentation to combine strengths of human and AI instruction” plus Workshop
Kenneth Holstein Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA) 04.03.2020 - 10.00 - 11.00 - GA 03/42 All members of the Center for Mind and Cognition and all Master students (Cognitive Science) are cordially invited to join us for the opening lecture. If you are interested...

– CANCELLED – Why perspective taking?
Prof. Dr. Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati) 11.03.2020, 4:15 pm - RUB, GA 3/143 We have all been told to take another person's perspective at times. Common sense holds that this makes a difference to our understanding of others. But in recent years, philosophers...