Call for Papers
Special Issue of Neuroscience of Consciousness on "Spontaneous Thought and Consciousness", edited by Athina Demertzi & Tobias Schlicht. With invited contributions by Moshe Bar, Kalina Christoff-Hadjiilieva, Jessica Andrews-Hanna, and Jennifer Windt. Further info here.

Anstehende Workshops
Im Mai und Juni organisieren wir drei ausfregende Workshops zu unterschiedlichen Themen in der Philosophie des Bewusstseins und der Kognition.
- Rudolf Carnap Lectures mit L.A. Paul (27-29 Mai 2026)
- Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation (02-03 Juni 2026)
- The Conscious Mind at 30 (18-19 Juni 2026)
Weitere Informtationen hier.

Philosophy of Cognitive Science!
In the context of the DAAD funded International Guest Professurship "Philosophy of Cognitive Science", Nico Orlandi will join our team from April 1st, 2026 until September 2026, after Robert Clowes (NOVA Universität Lissabon) has taught in the winter term 2025-26. In the following year, Robert Rupert (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Kristin Andrews (York University, Toronto/ CUNY New York) will follow. Their seminars will be taught in English and are directed primarily at students in our MA Programmes in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. For further information consult 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!