Videos & Podcasts

Podcast - Philosophisches Radio (2025)

The radio podcast to the exhibition “Wahrnehmen und Verstehen”.
Our perception is the window to our environment and to our self-understanding. But how does it work, and why do we each see things differently? The philosopher Albert Newen talks with Jürgen Wiebicke about perception, illusion and reality.

Click here to listen to the recorded podcast / WDR page

VIDEOS from TALKS at Ruhr-University Bochum
The videos in this section have been recorded as part of an ongoing lecture series at the Ruhr-University Bochum. They will be available online for six months after the date of the respective lecture.

KogWis 2025 Flexible Minds: Situated & Comparative Perspectives

Official Conference Video

Filmed by the Neuro-Cognitive Modeling Group, Department of Computer Science & Department of Psychology @ the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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Selected Keynote Talks

Rebecca Böhme: The Bodily Self in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Populations
Cameron Buckner: Second thoughts about Chains-of-Thought: Self-talk, transparency, and (artificial) reason
Lars Chittka: The Mind of a Bee
Martin Butz: Actively Contextualizing Minds

Selected Symposia

Sensory Augmentation – Extending the Mind: Silke Kärcher, Etienne Burdet
Animal Cognition from a Comparative Perspective: Lars Chittka, Maja Griem, Onur Güntürkün, Albert Newen
Cognitive aspects of trust in human-AI teams: Ute Schmid, Johannes Fürnkranz, Fritz Becker, Sebastian Krügel

Selected Paper Sessions

Computational Modeling: Learning, Memory & Meta Control: Martin Butz, Viktoria Zemliak, Nick Augustat
Culture & Gender: Aalia Nosheen & Annette Hohenberger, Evelyn Ferstl, Asya Achimova
Social Cognition in Development & Education: Witold Kraszewski & Katarzyna Skowrońska, Julia Wolf, Christian Kliesch

Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2025 with Prof. Peter Carruthers

Prof. Peter Carruthers (Maryland University)

Lecture 1: The interpretative sensory-access theory of self-knowledge: The case of inner speech

Lecture 2: Understanding human motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and Tribalism (Public Lecture, Award Lecture)

Lecture 3: The nature of pleasure and desire: where philosophers go wrong

Lecture 4: Stop caring about (phenomenal) consciousness

Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2024 with Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University, Boston)

Lecture 1: Three Lessons About Emotion

Lecture 2: Concepts as Tools For Living (Award Lecture)

Lecture 3: Three Lessons About the Brain (or, Some Stuff I’ve Learned from Studying Emotion)

Lecture 4: Relational Realism as a Framework for Understanding the Mind

Augmentative Technology

Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)

Constructing animal affect profiles

Heather Browning (University of Southampton)