Call for Registration – 2nd Bochum ECR Workshop

Registration is now open for the Second Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and of Cognitive Science

Participation in the workshop is free. Please register by sending an email containing name and affiliation to Luke Roelofs (luke.mf.roelofs@gmail.com), no later than June 5th 2019.

Date: June 13th – June 14th, 2019
Location: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Keynote Talks:
Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-University Bochum), “A Comparative Approach to Consciousness”
Rebekka Hufendiek (University of Basel), “The Evolution of Morality and Morality as an Explanandum”

Scheduled Talks:
Juliana Lima (UC Santa Barbara) – “Action-Based Indexicality”, with a response by Elmarie Venter
Elmarie Venter (Ruhr-University 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-University 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 Roelofs
Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-University 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-University Bochum) – “Rich in its poverty – perceptual experience in light of predictive coding”, with a response by Ömer Daglar Tanrikulu

The workshop will spotlight the work of early career researchers, providing them with both feedback on their talks and pre-prepared response pieces by other early career researchers. The selected talks reflect the breadth of contemporary work in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, covering work that is both empirical and theoretical, both practical and theoretical, and draws on a variety of cutting-edge new approaches.

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