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How philosophy can change the understanding of pain
A German-Canadian research team is calling for a more comprehensive approach. Dr. Sabrina Coninx from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Dr. Peter Stilwell from McGill University, Canada, have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about...

Fourth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Fourth Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop has a call for papers open! The workshop is an annual event by and for graduate students and early career researchers. It is a platform where people entering the academic job market have the opportunity not only for...

Interdisciplinary Reading Club & Colloquium: Lecture Series on Animal Cognition & Child Development
Organization: Sabrina Coninx, Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea, Maja Griem, Felix Schreiber, & Julia Wolf 11.05.2021 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineMiiamaaria Kujala (University of Jyväskylä) Social perception across species in humans and dogs: Perspectives from behavior,...

Bochum-Grenoble Research Center Mini-Lecture Series „Memory and Self“
Tuesday 6th April 16.00 – 17.15 André Sant'Anna Washington University in St. Louis/ Centre for Philosophy of Memory (Grenoble) "Fluency as the basis of autonoetic consciousness" 17.20 – 18.35 Raphael Milliere (in collaboration...

RUB ist Standort des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit
Bochum hat sich erfolgreich im bundesweiten Wettbewerb für das neue nationale Zentrum für die Spitzenforschung zur Verbesserung der psychischen Gesundheit durchgesetzt. Psychische Störungen betreffen in Deutschland mehr als ein Drittel aller Menschen im Laufe ihres...

GEM 2021 – Generative Episodic Memory Workshop
16.02.2021 - 18.02.2021 (online, via conference platform "Whova") Organized by: Research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" Abstract Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events....
CORRECTED LINK: Are Animals Cognitive Systems with Beliefs?
Albert Newen & Tobias Starzak (Philosophy, Bochum) 09.02.2021, 14.00 - 15.30 (online via zoom) Login details for zoom: Zoom-Link: (CORRECTED) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85078567791?pwd=YjVmSEZzV3RmamdmWVhnTWgwUHY0UT09 Meeting-ID: 850 7856 7791 Kenncode:...

Simulated action in object recognition
Diane Pecher (Psychology, Rotterdam) 05.02.2021, 14.00 (online via zoom) Login details for zoom: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/99840180341?pwd=anNRSk9WakRLd01tR1ZuMnBiaUlwQT09 Meeting ID: 998 4018 0341 Passcode: Fb852v On 5.02.21 at 2:00...

Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium
Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University) Transactional collective memory. 04.02.2021, 16:15-17:45 CET (UTC+01:00). Online Lecture via zoom. Login information: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82970505769?pwd=NGpHL3VHUUg0bktTbnBIT2kxMWVYZz09 Meeting ID: 829...

Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium
Sven Bernecker (Universität zu Köln) The moral excusability of forgetting. 28.01.2021, 10:00-11:30 CET (UTC+01:00). Online Lecture via zoom. Login information: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82970505769?pwd=NGpHL3VHUUg0bktTbnBIT2kxMWVYZz09 Meeting ID: 829 7050...