Rudolf-Carnap Lectures 2025 | Call for Registration
Rudolf-Carnap Lectures 2025 | Call for Registration
March 17-19, 2025 | Ruhr University Bochum
It’s an honour and a pleasure to announce that the Carnap Lectures in
2025 will be delivered by
Prof. Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland
For the last decades, he has contributed a rich body of very influential
work on many aspects of the mind, engaging with work in philosophy of
mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science which will be
reflected in his four keynote lectures which will be streamed also on
zoom. Here is the full program for this years’ lectures:
Monday, March 17th, 2025
12.30 – 14.00 Keynote 1: Peter Carruthers: The Interpretative Sensory-Access Theory of Self-Knowledge: The Case of Inner Speech
14.30 – 15.15 Romain Bourdoncle (Collège de France): Inner Speech in Borderline Personality Disorder
15.45 – 16.30 Rasmus Overmark (University of St Andrews): Competence and performance in mindreading development
16.30 – 17.15 Mathijs Geurts (University of Salzburg): Your guess is as good as mine: explaining speaker deference in conversation
18.00 – 19.30 Keynote 2: Public Lecture: Peter Carruthers: Understanding Human Motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and Tribalism
19.30 Dinner at QWest on Campus
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome/Coffee
09.15 – 10.45 Keynote 3: Peter Carruthers: The Nature of Pleasure and Desire: Where Philosophers Go Wrong
11.00 – 11.45 Sergiu Spatan (Technical University Dresden): On the Feelings of (Un)certainty
11.45 – 12.30 Renee Ye (Ruhr-University Bochum): AI Companionship and Human Motives
12.45 – 13.30 Frederik Junker (University of Copenhagen): From Daydreams to Decisions
14.45 – 17.00 Excursion (optional) to Exhibition at Dortmunder U
19.00 Dinner at Living Room (Bochum)
Wednesday, March 19th , 2025
09.15 – 09.30 Welcome/Coffee
09.30 – 10.15 José Curbera-Luis (University of Edinburgh): Collapsing the distinction between weak and strong illusionism
10.15 – 11.00 Maria Fülberth (University of Konstanz): Motivation Matters: the correct way to control belief formation
11.20 – 12.50 Keynote 4: Peter Carruthers: Stop Caring About (Phenomenal) Consciousness
13.00 Lunch and End
Zoom-Link for 4 Keynotes:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82175454633?pwd=X1VwsNqCwYNeiAoYQ0X4XMUPLD264i.1
Meeting-ID: 821 7545 4633, Code: 47xbd9
Registration
If you want to participate in person in the event, please register
by email to Dr. des. Maja Griem center-mindcognition@rub.de.
Further details: www.pe.rub.de/carnaplectures
Scientific Organization:
Albert Newen & Tobias Schlicht, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
—
Maja Griem, M.A., M.Sc.
Science Management
Center for Mind & Cognition
RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM (RUB)
GA 3/153
phone: +49-(0)-234-32-12435
e-mail: center-mindcognition@rub.de
web: https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/