Second Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science

Call for Papers: Second Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science

Date: June 13th - June 14th, 2019

Location: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Program

Keynotes:  

• Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): "A Comparative Approach to Consciousness."
• Rebekka Hufendiek (University of Basel): "The Evolution of Morality and Morality as an Explanandum."

Selected Contributions: 

• Juliana Lima (UC Santa Barbara): “Action-Based Indexicality”, with a response by Elmarie Venter.

• Elmarie Venter (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “"What Indexicality Tells Us About Self-Representation", with a response by Juliana Lima

• Thomas Park (University of South Bohemia): "The location of pain as evidence for its representational status." with a response by Sabrina Coninx.

• Sabrina Coninx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): "Strong Intentionalism and the Issue of Bodily Sensations: Causal Co-Variance and Biological Function" with a response by Thomas Park.

• Shereen Chang (University of Pennsylvania): "A model for referential communication learning" with a response by Luke Roeelofs. 

• Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): "Mind-Reading, Behaviour-Reading, and Something In-Between" with a response by Shereen Chang. 

• Ömer Daglar Tanrikulu (University of Iceland): "Do we have empirical support for probabilistic mental representations?" with a response by Krzysztof Dołęga.

• Krzysztof Dołęga (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Rich in its poverty - perceptual experience in light of predictive coding”, with a response by Ömer Daglar Tanrikulu.

Conference organizers: 

Krys Dolega, Judith Martens, Andrea Pace Giannotta, Luke Roelofs, Elmarie Venter, Alfredo Vernazzani, Julia Wolf

Registration: 

Partecipation in the workshop is free. Please register by sending an email containing name and affiliation to Luke Roelofs ([email protected]), no later than June 5th 2019.