Workshops (current)

Join us for our workshop on Prof. Hedda Hassel Mørch's book Non-physicalist theories of consciousness (CUP 2024) at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, January 29-30, 2026. We offer hybrid participation on Campus and on Zoom. Check out the schedule here. 

Zoom-Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/68712723667?pwd=73tbS3J07SaGsqHS9kd2aulgvxtvHw.1
Meeting-ID: 687 1272 3667 | Passwort: 502687

It's an honor and a plasure to welcome L.A. Paul (Yale) aas this year's Rudolf-Carnap Lecturer. From May 27-29, 2026, she will present new work on her important theme of Transformative Experience. 
Lecture 1: The Paradox of Transformation
Lecture 2 (Public): Transformative Change
Lecture 3: The Self in Time
Lecture 4: Varieties of Possibility

We invite early career researchers from philosophy and cognitive science, both PhD students and Postdocs (PhD completed in 2020 or later) to submit abstracts for presentation at the accompanying Graduate workshop, on topics related to or engaging with L.A. Paul’s work. Please submit abstracts (max. 1000 words), making thesis and argument transparent, by Email to Franziska.Klasen@rub.de, by February 20th, 2026. Further information hier.

In 1996, David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind. In search of a fundamental theory (OUP) shook the Philosophy of Mind by presenting rigorous philosophical arguments and ingenious thought experiments against the physicalistic mainstream. Chalmers introduced the hard problem of consciousness and offered a range of non-reductive approaches to consciousness. 30 years later, the scientific study of consciousness is thriving with its cornerstone of searching the neural correlates of consciousness, adversarial collaborations testing and comparing major theories of consciousness, and complex considerations of markers and tests for consciousness in infants, non-human animals and artificial systems.

In this workshop, we want to look back by celebrating the massive influence of The Conscious Mind and look forward to the future of the science of consciousness. We look forward to welcoming an exciting number of renowned philosophers and scientists to discuss philosophical and scientific themes from the book: Axel Cleeremans, Keith Frankish, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Christian List, Lucia Melloni, Hedda Hasssel Mørch, Liad Mudrik, Martine Nida-Rümelin, and Anil Seth.

We also invite Early Career Researchers from Philosophy and Cognitive Science to submit abstracts of max. 700 words on themes from the book for Poster Presentation. Please email to Franzsika.Klasen@rub.de by April 1st, 2026.