Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures

 

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The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures were held for the first time in 2007. Check out the programs and publications of those events and the prestigious list of speakers:


Lectures 2019

Prof. Frances Egan (Rutgers)


1. Representation in Cognitive Science

2. Glossng the theory: Recovering the Person


Prof. em. Robert Matthews (Rutgers)

3. Some bad news for Relationalism about the Attitudes

4. A case for Dispositionalism about the Attitudes


Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht



Lectures 2018

Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger (Mainz)

  1. 1.What is the deepest level of self-consciousness?

  2. 2.Mental autonomy, cognitive agency, and abstract levels of self-identification

  3. 3.Minimal phenomenal experience: A new theory about consciousness as such

  4. 4.Virtuelle Realität und Künstliche Intelligenz.Neue Fragen für Gesetzgebung und Angewandte Ethik


Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen


Lectures 2017

Prof. Frank C. Jackson (ANU)

  1. 1.How to think about perceptual content and how this delivers „feel“

  2. 2.The nature of Mind: What kind of materialist should I be?

  3. 3.Conceptual Analysis for explainers and predictors

  4. 4.Two-dimensionalism for Mooreans


Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen



Lectures 2016

Prof. em. Patricia S. Churchland (San Diego)

  1. 1.Neurophilosophy: New developments concerning representing and valuing

  2. 2.The impact of social neuroscience on moral philosophy

  3. 3.Nerve Agents. You and your amazing old-fangled reward system


Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen



Lectures 2015

Prof. John Campbell (Berkeley):

  1. 1.General versus Singular Causation in the Mind

  2. 2.Imagination versus Scientific Explanation

  3. 3.Interventions on the Mind

  4. 4.The Validity of a Psychological Construct


Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht



Lectures 2014

Prof. Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts): Explaining Mind

  1. 1.Explaining Mind. Cultural Evolution as the Bridge from Absolute Ignorance to Intelligent Design

  2. 2.The Competence of nature

  3. 3.If Brains are computers, what kind of computers are they?

  4. 4.How memes equip our brains for comprehension


Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen



Lectures 2013

Prof. David J. Chalmers (ANU/NYU):

Structuralism, Space, and Skepticism



Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen



Lectures 2012

Prof. Ned Block (NYU) & Prof. Susan Carey (Harvard): Attention and Concepts


  1. 1.The origin of concepts: the case of natural number (Carey)

  2. 2.How the nature of attention can decide among the major
    theories of perception (Block)

  3. 3.How iconic memory shows that consciousness is fundamentally
    different from cognition (Block)

  4. 4.Insights about what we see from crowded perception (Block)

  5. 5.Core Cognition of the Social World (Carey)


Organization: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen



Lectures 2011

Prof. Tim Crane (Cambridge) & Prof. Katalin Farkas (Budapest):
The boundaries of the Mental


  1. 1.Non-existent objects (Crane)

  2. 2.Psychologism, semantics, and the non-existent (Crane)

  3. 3.What is distinctive of human thought? (Crane)

  4. 4.Extended Minds (Farkas)

  5. 5.Extended Selves (Farkas)

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

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Lectures 2010

Prof. David Papineau (King’s College London)

  1. 1.The phenomenal concept strategy

  2. 2.Mind the Gap

  3. 3.The intuition of distinctness

  4. 4.Mental causation

  5. 5.Are humans just physical machines?

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

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Selected papers published as a Special issue of Philosophia
(Vol. 39, No. 1, 2011): "Consciousness, Reductionism and the Explanatory Gap", ed. by Leon de Bruin & Albert Newen.



Lectures 2009

Prof. John Perry (Stanford): Thinking about the Self

  1. 1.Meaning and the Self

  2. 2.Self-Knowledge

  3. 3.Freedom and the Self

  4. 4.Borges’ Selves”

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen

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Selected papers published as a Special issue

of the online journal Abstracta (Vol. 5, No.2, 2009): "Proceedings of the Second European Graduate School: Philosophy of Language, Mind and Science", ed. by A. Newen, R. van Riel and M. Sollberger



Lectures 2008

Prof. Alva Noë (Berkeley): Perception, Action and Understanding

  1. 1.Conscious Reference

  2. 2.Magic realism and the limits of intelligibility

  3. 3.Perception without Representation

  4. 4.Novel Experiences

  5. 5.Presence in Pictures

Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, for more information follow this link



Selected papers published as a Special issue
of the online journal Abstracta (Vol. 4, No.1, 2008): "Central Topics in Epistemology", ed. by A. Newen and T. Schlicht



Lectures 2007

Prof. Shaun Gallagher (Florida): Body, Agency and Intersubjectivity

This was the inaugural event of this lecture series

  1. 1.Embodied Subjectivity and self-agency

  2. 2.Multiple aspects of agency: phenomenology and neuroscience

  3. 3.Understanding others in action and narrative

  4. 4.Embodiment and understanding other agents: neural resonance and simulation theory

  5. 5.Embodiment, intersubjectivity, and moral personhood


Organization: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen