Panpsychism, Non-Physicalism and the Causal Powers of Consciousness
Workshop with Prof. Hedda Hassel Mørch (Uni Inland Norway) on her book "Non-physicalist approaches to consciousness", 29-30 Januar 2026, hybrid in Room GA 1/128 and on 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!
The DAAD granted a four term guest professorship on the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, commencing in the winter 2025/26. It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome Robert Clowes (NOVA University Lisbon), Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz), Robert Rupert (University of Colorado Boulder), and Kristin Andrews (York University Toronto/CUNY New York at RUB! They will all enrich our MA programs in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Further inquiries to Franziska Klasen: franziska.klasen@rub.de.

ASSC 28, Heraklion/Crete, July 2025

Our team was well represented at this year's meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. MA Student Nicolas Loerbroks, Visiting PhD Student Maria Luiza Iennaco (Sao Paolo), and Postdoc Bartosz Radomski presented posters, Yizhi Li gave a talk in our submitted symposium on Spontaneous Thought and Consciousness (https://assc2025.gr), along with Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva, Jessica Andrews-Hanna, and Moshe Bar. Congratulations!