Workshop mit Jonathan Birch!
Vorträge und Workshop zu Jonathan Birch's Buch 'The Edge of Sentience', am 12.-13. Juni 2025 an der Ruhr-Uni Bochum im Veranstaltungszentrum (Saal 1). Anmeldung per Email an franziska.klasen@rub.de.

Thursday, June 12
09:30-10:45 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): On the Edge of Sentience
10.45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Elisa Pasquini (Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento): Central GABAergic neuromodulation of nocifensive behaviours in bumble bees
11.45-12:30 Cassandra Williams (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto): How speculative is biopsychism really?
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Sanja Sreckovic (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): Deliberation over value: Affective metacognition in nonhuman animals
14:45-15:30 Rony Hirschhorn, Niccolo Negro, Liad Mudrik (School of Neuroscience & Psychology, Tel Aviv University/CIFAR, Toronto): Does consciousness matter morally? A survey on Folk and Expert Intuitions
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Roundtable Students meet Author: Jonathan Birch with MA Students RUB & TUDO (and Coffee)
18:30 Dinner in Town

Friday, June 13
09:30-10:45 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): When is a neural organoid a sentience candidate?
10.45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Renee Ye (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): The Edge of Artificial Sentience: Resistances and Implications
11.45-12:30 Leonard Dung (Institute of Philosophy, RUB): Emotion, the Body, and the moral standing of AI and neural organoids
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Farhan Lakhany (University of Nebraska, Omaha): Title
14:45-15:30 Amelie Klara Uhlig (Ethics & Philosophy of Technology, TU Berlin): Sentience and Terminolo-gical Experimentation
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.15 Jonathan Birch (LSE, London): The search for artificial consciousness
18.30 Dinner in Town

ASSC 27, Tokyo, July 2024

Unsere MA Studentin Lara Bräuchle und unser Doktorand Yizhi Li präsentierten bei der kompetitiven jährlichen ASSC Konferenz in Tokyo (https://assc27.net) im Juli ihre Poster. Yizhi stellte seine Arbeit zu 'Mind Wandering' vor, Lara ihre empirischen Arbeiten, die sie bei Tristan Bekinschtein in Cambridge mit Patient*innen zu Aufmerksamkeit und chronischem Schmerzerleben duchgeführt hat. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!