Season 2
In the winterer term 2026-2027 (October - January), Krzysztof Dolega and Tobias Schlicht continue with organizing an online colloquium on Representations in Minds, Brains, and AI, providing a platform for the discussion of recently published papers or work-in-progress. The colloquium is addressed at advanced MA students, PhD students, and philosophers and scientists interested in or working in this area. The colloquium will feature talks by the authors themselves and participants are invited to familiarize themselves with the texts.
The sessions will be on Zoom, Wednesdays at 6pm (Berlin), 12pm (New York), 9am (Los Angeles), 2am (Sydney).
Here is the Link:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/64692924755?pwd=803uh1OEPBkBrEONeL87zJFudGjlw7.1
Meeting-ID: 646 9292 4755 | Passwort: 531564
Schedule and Links to papers:
21 October, Lukas Kob (Prague/Magdeburg): Holistic Representation in Large Language Models
28 October, Gualtiero Piccinini (Missouri): Thought as Inner Navigation: A Neurocognitive Architecture for Propositional Thought
04 November, Daniel Burnston (Tulane) & Tomás J. Ryan (Trinity/CIFAR): An Alternative to Encoding for Thinking about Neural Representations
11 November, Stephan Pohl & Wei Ji Ma (NYU): Clarifying the Conceptual Dimensions of Representation in Neuroscience
18 November, Megan Peters, Hojjat Azimi Asrari (UCL): How Brains Build Higher Order Representations of Uncertainty
25 November, Krystyna Bielecka & Marcin Milkowski (Warsaw): Contentful Skills: Procedural Memory and the Representational Challenge to Non-Representational Cognition
09 December, Marc Artiga (Barcelona): Understanding Structural Representation
16 December, Jake Quilty-Dunn (Rutgers) & Justin N. Wood (Bloomington): The Nativist-Empiricist Debate is Broken
13 January, Danielle Williams (NYU): Computational Models as Liminal Models in Neuroscience
20 January, Alison Springle (Miami): Content and Computation compatible with Ecological Cognitive Science
27 January, Joulia Smortchkova (Grenoble): Representational Kinds
Summer 2026
L.A. Paul, Transformative Experience (seminar incl. Workshop with the author)
The Computational Theory of Mind (seminar incl. Workshop with G. Piccinini and others)
Representations in Minds, Brains, and AI (Colloquium)
Winter 2025-2026
Non-physicalist theories of consciousness (seminar incl. Workshop with Hedda Hassel Mørch)
Summer 2025
Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience (seminar incl. Workshop with the Author)
Physikalismus in der Analytischen Philosophie (BA Seminar)
Intentionalität in der Philosophie des 20. Jh. (BA Seminar)
Winter 2024-2025
Sabbatical
Summer 2024
Philosophie und Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins (Lecture, in German)
Philosophische Probleme des Bewusstseins (Seminar) Bachelor-Arbeiten in der Philosophie des Geistes (Seminar)
Winter 2023-2024
Situated Cognition (Lecture, in English)
Basal Cognition (Seminar, in English)
Summer 2023
Is the Mind Extended? (Seminar, in English)
Mindshaping (Seminar, in English)
Kants Kritik der Uerteilskraft (2. Einleitung, in German)
Lecture Series on New Forms of Social Interaction with AI (in English)
Winter 2022-2023
Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Lecture in English)
Philosophie des Geistes (Introductory Seminar, in German)
Research Colloquium (Social Interaction and Social Media)
Summer 2022
Zombies (Seminar, in English)
Winter 2021-2022
Social Cognition, in German (Lecture and Seminar, in German)
Summer 2021
Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vices (Seminar)
Cognition in simple biological systems (Seminar with T. Starzak)
Winter 2020-2021
The metaphysics of sensory experience (Seminar incl. workshop)
Summer 2020 (sabbatical)
Winter 2019-2020
Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy (Lecture for Beginners, in German)
Introduction to Kant’s Epistemology (Seminar)
Summer 2019
Cognition in simple biological systems (Seminar with Tobias Starzak, RUB)
Phenomenal Intentionality (Seminar with Andrea Pace Giannotta, Florence)
Mendelovici on Phenomenal Intentionality (Seminar incl. Workshop with A. Mendelovici)
Winter 2018/19
Alvarez on Reasons, in English (Seminar with Judith Martens)
From Dretske to Predictive Processing, in English (Seminar with Krys Dolega)
Summer 2018
Soziale Kognition (Lecture)
Soziale Kognition (Seminar)
Teleosemantics (Seminar with Alfredo Vernazzani)
Joint Action (Block Seminar with Prof. Stephen Butterfill, Warwick)
Research Colloquium Consciousness and Cognition
Winter 2017/18
Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes (Lecture & Seminar)
Evolving Enactivism, incl. workshop with Dan Hutto and Erik Myin
Introduction to Cognitive Science (3 Lectures)
Summer 2017
Frank Jacksons Philosophie des Geistes
Mentale Repräsentation
Winter 2016/17
New Work on Social Cognition (Seminar in English)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (3 Lectures)
Summer 2016
Dan Zahavi: Self and Other (Seminar in English, including 3-day
workshop with Dan Zahavi, June 20-22, 2016)
John Searle: Seeing things as they are (Seminar in English,
including 3-day-workshop with John R. Searle, May 17-19, 2016)
Research Colloquium Situated Cognition
Winter 2015/16
Einführung in die Philosophie der Antike und des Mittelalters) (Lecture)
Platons Ideenlehre
Research Colloquium Consciousness & Cognition
Introduction to Cognitive Science (3 Lectures)
Summer 2015
Mental Causation (Seminar, taught in english)
Philosophie der Verkörperung (Seminar)
Research Colloquium Consciousness & Cognition
Colloquium for Doctoral Students (with H. Pulte)
Winter 2014/15
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment III (Teleology) (Seminar)
Philosophy and Science of Consciousness (Lecture and Seminar)
Colloquium for Doctoral Students (with H. Pulte)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (3 Lectures and Seminars)
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