Bayesian Learning & Reasoning

Bayesian Learning & Reasoning

JULY 11-12th 2022

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Keynote Speakers:

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck College)

Nico Orlandi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

For the full program and further information, please click here


The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures  with Cecilia Heyes- 07.-08.06.2022 – Ruhr University Bochum

The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures with Cecilia Heyes- 07.-08.06.2022 – Ruhr University Bochum

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.

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Why do people believe weird things?  Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vice

Why do people believe weird things? Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vice

Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories & Rationality

Please register to acquire zoom link for participation. Send Email to: firuze.mullaoglu@rub.de Further info: www.tobiasschlicht.com

Organized by Dr. Nina Poth, Dr. Krzysztof Dolega, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht

Upcoming Talks

April 21 MICHAEL STREVENS (NYU)
Irrationality and Rationality in Science 

April 28 SAM GERSHMAN (Harvard) 
How to never be wrong 

May 5 | 6 pm !!! (CET) CAILIN O’CONNOR (Irvine) 
Multiple Mechanisms for Polarization 

May 12 C. THI NGUYEN (Utah) 
The Seductions of Clarity 

May 19 SARAH FISHER (Vienna)
Reading between the lines: Language-based Inferences and (Ir)rationality

June 02 HUGO MERCIER (Paris) 
Not Born Yesterday: Why people are less gullible than we think 

June 23 MONA SIMION (Glasgow) 
Politically Motivated Reasoning and Evidence Resistance 

June 30 ÅSA M. WIKFORSS (Stockholm) 
Resisting the Facts: Is it Irrational? 

July 7 CHRIS RANALLI (Amsterdam) 
Norms of Conspiracy Theorizing 

July 14 REGINA RINI (Toronto) 
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Interdisciplinary Reading Club:

Interdisciplinary Reading Club:

Recent Debates on Situated Cognition
Summer Semester 2022

Prof. Albert Newen
Dr. Sabrina Coninx

12.04.2022
16:00-17:30
Hal Hershfield (UCLA Anderson School)
The Future Self
Zoom-Link
19.04.2022Evan Westra (York University, Toronto) 
A New Framework for the Psychology of Social Norms
Zoom-Link
10.05.2022Anna Borghi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Abstract Concepts and Inner Speech
Zoom-LInk
07.-08.06.2022Carnap Lectures (Hybrid Event) with Cecilia Heyes (Oxford University)
https://philosophy-cognition.com/carnap/
14.06.2022Adrian Alsmith (King’s College London)
Imagination, Illusion, and (Virtual) Reality
28.06.2022Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics and Political Science)
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05.07.2022Matteo Colombo (Tilburg University)
Instrumentalisms and the Free Energy Principle

LAST SESSION POSTPONED TO FALL!      BOCHUM RUTGERS LECTURE SERIES

LAST SESSION POSTPONED TO FALL! BOCHUM RUTGERS LECTURE SERIES

Time slot for October session:
Session: 17:00 – 19:40 (CET) / 11:00am – 13:40pm (EST)
(1st talk: 17:00 / 11am, 2nd talk: 18:20 / 12:20pm)

Login details for all talks:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81557439258?pwd=S3lrNXlMQksxRWFwcmVpMkhxSmZaQT09
Meeting-ID: 815 5743 9258
Kenncode: 6CAG4D

MAY 19TH 2022
“Perception Revisited”
1.) Susanne Schellenberg (Rutgers), “Perspectival Variance and Perceptual Constancy”
2.) Peter Brössel (RUB), “Perception and Updating”


JUNE 2ND 2022

“The Hard Problem of Consciousness”
1.) Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers), “Subjectivity in an Objective World”
2.) Tobias Schlicht (RUB), “The Unbearable Uselessness of Zombies”


JUNE 23RD 2022

“Applied Formal Semantics”
1.) Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers), “The Cognitive Roots of Adjectival Meaning”
2.) Kristina Liefke (RUB), “What are Experiential Attitudes?”


October 20TH 2022 (New Date)
“Theories of Meaning and Concepts”
1.) Albert Newen (RUB), “The Social foundation of Meaning: Lingustic Understanding is Person Understanding”
2.) Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), “Meaning”


Online Lecture Series on Situated Cognition

Online Lecture Series on Situated Cognition

In the Context of the Situated Cognition Spring School

Keynotes of the Situated Cognition Spring School (SCSS–2022) will be streamed via Zoom.
Join online and be inspired by state-of-the-art research in situated cognition research.

For detailed information on this year’s Online Lecture Series in the context of the Situated Cognition Spring School click here.