The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures are an annual event started by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen from the Institute of Philosophy II at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in 2008. The Lectures provide a platform for distinguished scholars to present their work in the form of several talks on their preferred topic. The focus is usually on the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Language or Science. In turn, graduate students interested in these topics get the chance to engage in extensive discussion and get in touch with state-of-the-art research. In addition, some of them have the chance to present their own work on related topics during a graduate conference, based on a peer review process.

The lecture series is dedicated to the philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) who was born in Barmen (today: Wuppertal) which is not far from Bochum. He studied Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics in Jena and Freiburg, amongst others with Gottlob Frege, and is one of the main representatives of Logical Empiricism.

Prior Carnap-Lecturers include Alva Noë (Berkeley), John Perry (Stanford), David Papineau (London), Tim Crane (Cambridge) & Katalin Farkas (Budapest) (see Archive).

Carnap Lectures 2012

We are pleased to announce that in 2012, from
May 31st - June 2nd, the Carnap Lectures will be presented by Susan Carey (Harvard and Ned Block (NYU), organized by Tobias Schlicht.

Carnap Lectures 2013

In May 2013, the Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures will be presented by David Chalmers (NYU/ANU). He will present material from his latest manuscript called “Constructing the world” the central claim of which is based on Carnap’s Der logische Aufbau der Welt.

Prof. Dr Albert Newen

Professor of Philosophy

Focus: Philosophy of Mind

Institut für Philosophie II

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Universitätsstr. 150, GA3/151

44780 Bochum

Email: sekretariat-newen (at) rub.de