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Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)

We are pleased to announce our monthly online talk series on "Inferences & Capacities."

Our next speaker is:

Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)
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Oct 19: 11am (Buenos Aires), 10am (New York), 4pm (Berlin).

Abstract: TBA

How to participate: Please, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: 

alfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com

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• About Inferences & Capacities:

The series brings together work on inferential capacities, rationality, normativity, and cognition — across both human and non-human animals — with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere.  

2026 line-up:  

April 27: Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." 

May 18: Federico Burdman (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction, attention, and reasons-responsiveness." 

June 22: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers): TBA 

July 20: Cameron Buckner (University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought, Inner Speech, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."

September 7: Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University): TBA  

October 19: Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund): TBA 

November 16: Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zürich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" 

December 14: Emma Borg (SAS, University of London): "Twitches, Fidgets, Habits, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." 

Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&A.  

The series is co-organized by:

Mariela Aguilera (University of Córdoba)

Matías Osta-Vélez (Universidad de la República)

Alfredo Vernazzani (TU Dortmund; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg).

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