Workshop – Ruhr-Universität Bochum – 01.-02. September 2022
Program 09:00 arrival and coffee 09:30 David Papineau (King’s College/CUNY): Problems for representationalism 10:45 coffee 11:00 Alex Byrne (MIT): Representationalism defended 12:15 Lunch 13:30 Umrao Sethi, online (Brandeis): Accounting for seeming presence 14:45 coffee 15:15 Albert Newen (RUB): The ALARM Theory of Consciousness 16.30 coffee 16.45 Laura Gow (Liverpool): Wannabe Representation 19.00 Dinner (Living Room, Bochum)
Friday September 2nd: 09:00 arrival and coffee 09:30 Stefanie Grüne (Berlin): Are representationalism and naïve realism compatible? 10:45 coffee 11:00 Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck): Against cosmic brains 12:15 Lunch 13:30 Katalin Farkas (CEU Vienna): Representation by sensory qualia is not arbitrary 14:45 coffee 15:15 Heather Logue (Leeds): Purpose and procedure in the metaphysics of perceptual experience 16.30 coffee 16.45 Tim Crane, online (CEU Vienna): Is perceptual consciousness essentially representational?
11th and 12th of August 2022 – Ruhr University Bochum – Veranstaltungszentrum
We have a great lineup of confirmed speakers including, but not limited to, Dmitry Aronov, Herman Wagner, and Thomas Bugnyar. Join us for two days of birds, brains and behavior!
Prof. Heyes‘ work concerns the evolution of cognition. It explores the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. She is especially interested in social cognition.
Her current projects examine whether the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural in-heritance – social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading, etc. – are themselves products of cultural evolution.
Her three lectures will cover material from these areas, based on her book “Cognitive Gadgets” (Harvard University Press), but also new work ensuing from this book.
