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Online Talk Series by Project Interact!
Katie Winkle (Uppsala University)Working to Deliver Trustworthy Robotics in Practice: Feminist Design meets Risk Assessment and MitigationNov 30, 2023, 4pm CET, Room RUB GA 03.33 & via...
Bochum-Belgrade Philosophy of Mind Workshop (online)
Programme December 12 2023 Day 1: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind and Life14:00-14:30Slobodan Perović (University of Belgrade)Understanding Life: Its Physical Foundation, Origins, and Future14:30Alexander Hölken (RUB)Commentary15:00-15:30Julia Wolf...

New International Fellow
Katie Winkle, PhD [Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht] Time: November 2023 Katie Winkle is Assistant Professor of Social Robotics in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. The work of her team is focused on trustworthy human-robot...
Interacting with intelligent systems: decisions, affects, and trust on Nov 9th & 10th 2023, Ruhr-University Bochum.
Interacting with intelligent systems: decisions, affects, and trust on Nov 9th & 10th 2023, Ruhr-University Bochum. The workshop, organized by the project INTERACT! – New forms of social interaction with intelligent systems, aims to...
Interdisciplinary Reading Club WS23/24
Organized by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen and Dr. Julia Wolf. Tuesday 14:00-15:30GA 04/187 (Hybrid) Zoom-link: Click the talk's title. Heidi Maibom Instrumentalism and Human Morality: The Case of the Psychopath 17.10.2023Zachary Irving Norms of Attention: The Trade...

Central Topics in Situated Cognition Conference for Three Generations RTG ‘Situated Cognition’
Abstract Our Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ has now started its third and last training generation of twelve new PhD students, with the second cohort simultaneously finalizing their projects. At this unique point in time, we would like to unite all three...

Understanding: One or Many?
18. - 20.07.2023 Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Mercator Raum GAFO 04/187 DescriptionWhile understanding has recently become the object of intense debate among philosophers, it remains an open question how to make sense of different...

Theory of Attention and Artificial Intelligence: Ideational Preparation Is All You Need – Deep Learning Meets William James’ Theory of Attention
Tuesday, 27.6.2023: 14.30-16.00 Uhr, Location (hybrid): GA 04/187 Mercatorraum und online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89147315543?pwd=aTNPMzdJdkhZbFluUXJKeHp5emVNQT09 Prof. Cameron Buckner, University of Houston (USA) Fellow-Lecture Theory of Attention...

Applications of Predictive Processing: Two talks by fellows of the Center for Mind & Cognition
10:30: Barbara Tillmann (Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development, Université de BourgognePredictions in music, speech and beyond11:30: Sam Wilkinson (Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of ExeterBasic control in cognition and...

Bochum-Rutgers Workshop 2023
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...