Upcoming Workshop
Lectures and Workshop on Jonathan Birch's book 'The Edge of Sentience', 12-13 June, 2025 at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum (Saal 1). To participate, please register by email to 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

Our MA student Lara Bräuchle and PhD student Yizhi Li entered the competitive annual ASSC meeting this year in Tokyo (https://assc27.net). Yizhi presentd his work on Mind Wandering, and Lara her empirical data obtained with Tristan Bekinschtein in Cambridge on Attention and chronic pain experience. Congratulations!