Panpsychism, Non-Physicalism and the Causal Powers of Consciousness
Workshop mit Prof. Hedda Hassel Mørch (Uni Inland Norway) zu ihrem Buch "Non-physicalist approaches to consciousness", 29-30 Januar 2026, hybrid in Raum GA 1/128 und über Zoom.

Thursday, January 29th 2026
09:30-10:45 Hedda Hassel Mørch (Inland Norway): The case for Panpsychism from the Problem of Consciousness (and how it survives the Combination Problem)
10.45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Brad Saad (Oxford): Emergent Panpsychism, Delegatory Dualism, the Problem of Residual Redundancy
12.00-12:45 Bruno Cortesi (Graz): Dual Carving: An Assessment
12:45-14.15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:00 Finn Thwaite (London): Mental Mereology
15:00-16:00 Azenet Lopez (Munich): Consciousness from Consciousness Itself
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Victor Tremblay-Baillargeon (Montréal, France): Microphenomenology for Panpsychists
17:00-18:00 Luke Roelofs (Arlington): Universalist Panpsychism and Animal Consciousness
 
Friday, January 30th 2026
09:30-10:30 Tim Crane (Vienna): The Qualitative and the Quantitative: Mørch’s Argument for Panpsychism
10:30-11:15 Marcelino Botin (Barcelona): Russellian Physicalism and the Challenge from Subjective Awareness
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break 
11:45-12:45 Jakub Mihalik (Prague): Dual-Aspect Monism and the Possibility of Artificial Consciousness 
12.45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:00 Nino Kadić (Zagreb): The Individuation Problem for Monadic Panpsychism 
15:00-15:45 Samuel Roussel (Caen): From Identity Panpsychism to Continuist panpsychism 
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:30 Hedda Hassel Mørch (Inland Norway): The Case for Panpsychism from the Problem of Causation (and its possible Implications for the Combination Problem)

Zoom-Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/68712723667?pwd=73tbS3J07SaGsqHS9kd2aulgvxtvHw.1
Meeting-ID: 687 1272 3667 | Passwort: 502687

Philosophy of Cognitive Science!
Der DAAD hat soeben eine Internationale Gastprofessur " Philosophy of Cognitive Science" bewilligt. Ab WS 2025/26 werden vier exzellente internationale Forscherpersönlichkeiten unsere Lehre an der RUB bereichern: Robert Clowes (NOVA Universität Lissabon), Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz), Robert Rupert (University of Colorado, Boulder), Kristin Andrews (York University, Toronto/ CUNY New York). Die Kurse finden in englischer Sprache statt und richten sich primär an Studierende in unseren MA Programmen. Informationen bei Franziska Klasen: franziska.klasen@rub.de.

ASSC 28, Heraklion/Crete, July 2025

Unser Team war sehr gut repräsentiert bei der disjährigen Tagung der Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. MA Student Nicolas Loerbroks, Visiting PhD Student Maria Luiza Iennaco (Sao Paolo), und Postdoc Bartosz Radomski präsentierten Poster, Yizhi Li hielt einen Vortrag in dem eingerichten Symposium zu Spontaneous Thought and Consciousness (https://assc2025.gr), neben Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva, Jessica Andrews-Hanna, und Moshe Bar. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!