In order to express our solidarity with the people in Ukraine, who face the destruction of their universities by the Russian army and an attack on the values we believe in: peace, democracy and freedom, the Research Training Group (RTG; DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) “Situated Cognition” offers a few fellowships based on our DFG-funding. We focus our support on the subject of philosophy. Since the RTG is bi-local the philosophers can be based either at the Department of Philosophy II at Ruhr-University Bochum or at the Department of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University.
We provide funding for philosophers on all career levels, from graduate students to visiting professors. The fellowship can be taken for max. 3 months. But we support an application at the Humboldt-Foundation which offers special funding for Ukrainian researchers in the present situation (These follow-up fellowships are not available for PhD-students):
What we offer in addition:
- We support traveling costs to Bochum or Osnabrück.
- You will be embedded in an outstanding research department in Europe at Bochum or Osnabrück.
Eligibility:
- You are a philosopher from Ukraine and are affected by the war.
- You are a PhD-student or a researcher in philosophy.
Please get in contact with us via: rtg-situatedcognition@rub.de and send us your CV. Only in the case you want to apply for a specific research project, you have to add a one-page outline of possible projects (see webpage mentions above). If you have questions, please visit our website or get in contact with us via mail.
Further Information:
Further information can be found here
Online Workshop – May 23-25 2022
We invite submissions for oral presentations (40 min. + 20 min. for discussion)
at 4ememory@gmail.com.
Abstract length: 250-500 words.
Deadline: March 15 2022.
Notification: April 1 2022.
We encourage early career researchers, especially those from underrepresented
genders and minority backgrounds, to submit an abstract.
Invited Speakers:
Louise Barrett
(Psychology, University of Lethbridge)
Richard Heersmink
(Philosophy, Monash University)
Francesco Ianì
(Psychology, University of Turin)
Anco Peeters & Marta Caravà
(Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum)
John Sutton
(Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Macquarie University)
Evelyn Tribble
(English, University of Connecticut)
Organizers:
Marta Caravà, Roy Dings (Ruhr University Bochum), Chris McCarroll
(National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) and Anco Peeters (Ruhr University Bochum).
Starting from the 1st of March, a new, paid position as IT support for Prof. Newen’s office will be vacant. The scope of the position is 8 – 10 hours per week and includes the maintenance of websites (based on WordPress and Imperia), a dedicated server, and IT support during conferences and hybrid seminars. If you are interested, please send an application including your CV and Transcript of Records to the mail listed in the vacancy notice below:
Date: July 13, 2022 – July 15, 2022
Location: online event via Zoom
Organization: Leonard Dung & Eline Kuipers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany
Keynote speakers: Elizabeth Irvine & Alistair Isaac & Catherine Stinson
Program
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Wednesday 13 July 2022
14:00-15:00 Maja Griem (Ruhr Universität Bochum) – What Follows Is Play: Intentional Communication in Non-Human Animals
15:00-16:00 Renee Ye (University of Sheffield) – Theoretical Commitment in the Comparative Study of Consciousness
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion
17:00-17:30 Fail Academy Part 1
17:30-19:00 Elizabeth Irvine (Cardiff University) – Thinking About Gradualism in the Evolution of Subjectivity
Thursday 14 July 2022
14:00-15:00 José Carlos Camillo (Universidade Federal de Goiás) – Does Episodic Memory Represent? An Enactivist Perspective
15:00-16:00 Rebecca Dreier (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – The Nature of Episodic Memory: Belief as Basis Constructivism
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion
17:00-17:30 Fail Academy Part 2
17:30-19:00 Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh) – Aristotelian Cognitive Science
Friday 15 July 2022
14:00-15:00 Céline Budding (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Tacit Knowledge as a Target of Intervention in Neural Networks
15:00-16:00 Louis Longin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – Blamed But Not Praised: How AI Advisors Change the Dynamic of Human-AI Interaction
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-17:00 Breakout session with informal discussion
17:00-17:30 Social Event
17:30-19:00 Catherine Stinson (Queen’s University) – Adversarial Perception in Deep Neural Networks
You can convert these times to your timezone here.
This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science an opportunity for in-depth discussion and feedback on their work. Each accepted speaker will be paired with another early career researcher working on a connected topic. The paired speakers will receive each other’s papers in advance and prepare a detailed commentary. Each paper will then get 1 hour: 30 minutes for the speaker’s talk, 10 minutes for the paired speaker’s commentary, and 20 minutes for discussion.
We invite papers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, broadly understood. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Epistemology of perception
- Mental representations
- Bodily awareness and sensations
- Social cognition and joint action
- The problem of consciousness
- Naturalization of intentionality
- Animal cognition and comparative psychology
- Philosophy of psychiatry and psychopathology
- Philosophy of AI
We welcome submissions from members of minorities and underprivileged groups.
Eligibility: Submissions are invited from PhD students or researchers who received their PhD less than 2 years before the submission deadline.
Submission instructions: Abstracts ready for blind review (1000 words) with a separate cover sheet (listing name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and date of PhD conferral or expected conferral) should be submitted to bochumgradconf@gmail.com by April 30th, 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by late May. Accepted speakers will be asked to send their full papers (of no more than 10,000 words) by the end of June.
For any queries and clarifications please do not hesitate to contact us at: bochumgradconf@gmail.com
Prof. Friederike Eyssel
University of Bielefeld
A social psychological perspective on social robots
15.02.2022 – 17:00 – 18:10
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87272993893?pwd=eCswMmZuc28vUVhMVm9COHQwOSt1QT09
Prof. Nicole Krämer
University of Duisburg-essen
Interaction with robots and algorithms from the perspectives of
social psychology
16.02.2022 – 09:00 – 10:10
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87408402775?pwd=TUIySmtDN3lReHZVT0x0SEQ5WDV2QT09
