The Institute of Philosophy II specializes in systematic (analytical) contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of antiquity (in conjunction with medieval philosophy). [Read more...]

Dates in the Summer Term 2025

It's an honor and a pleasure to host the following guest talks at our Institute this summer term:

May 14th: Prof. Adrian Haddock (Leipzig): The First Person
Zoom-Meeting:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/67279476850?pwd=CC3HbzmMJfcaGZbXCZ8pcfSM2leUpF.1  
Meeting-ID: 672 7947 6850 | Passwort: 273143

May 28th: Prof. Nico Orlandi (UC Santa Cruz): Concepts as Mental Files
Zoom-Meeting:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/68056035047?pwd=HyaXDr1vlR31f4uOXlhhktSb5YQEn6.1
Meeting-ID: 680 5603 5047 | Passwort: 096921

July 16th: Prof. Elsi Kaiser (U Southern California): (Un)certainty in language and cognition: Eyewitness reports, hearsay, and statistical probability
Zoom-Meeting beitreten
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/63373710087?pwd=zj8BIQbyqOQT7MZ656TMHd3fEEnqmN.1
Meeting-ID: 633 7371 0087 | Passwort: 875777

All talks will by hybrid Wednesdays 12.15 - 13.45 in GA 04/187 and Zoom.

April 23, 2025, 6pm CET
Filipa Correia, PhD (Interactive Technologies Institute Lisbon): From the Dark Side of Embodied Agents to Rethinking Social Robots
Zoom Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/66529833963?pwd=0GGTWa8bSwn8HM1rYYbQNtixPzeim5.1
Meeting-ID: 665 2983 3963 | Passwort: 840620

May 28, 2025, 6pm CET
Prof. Karola Marky (Computer Science, Digital Sovereignty Lab, RUB): An Introduction Into Information Privacy
Zoom-Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/62869627137?pwd=c7wOtQ5Yyg2pTeBI1DObSx6MQCL7iq.1
Meeting-ID: 628 6962 7137 | Passwort: 369072

June 04, 2025, 6pm CET:
Prof. Veelasha Moonsamy (Security & Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems, RUB): Emotionally-Intelligent Chatbots and Privacy
Zoom-Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/66968297257?pwd=87H0Q7ixTzTO4nRSqzKH6xOBWLXSFO.1
Meeting-ID: 669 6829 7257 | Passwort: 406498

July 16, 2025, 6pm CET:
Prof. Asia Biega (MPI for Security & Privacy, Bochum): Designing AI Systems for Digital Well-Being
Zoom-Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/65522145290?pwd=SW0zbLAyQeNnQJQZNpu8grGC1l4HtL.1
Meeting-ID: 655 2214 5290 | Passwort: 466861

Everybody interested is very welcome! Organization: Tobias Schlicht & Interact! Team | Further Info: www.pe.rub.de/interact

Workshop from June 10-11, 2025 in GA 04/187, organised by PD Dr. Wanja Wiese and Prof. Albert Newen.
Speakers: Patrick Butlin, Joanna Bryson, Leonard Dung, Michele Farisco, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Lucia Melloni, Winnie Street.
Further info here.

Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics) will give three lectures on his book "The Edge of Sentience", June 12-13, 2025. The event includes presentations from Early Career Researchers and is part of the research-oriented teaching by Prof. Schlicht. Everybody welcome! Further information here.

Workshop, Ruhr University Bochum, June 27-28, 2025, organized by Prof. Barbara Sattler & Celso Vieira.
Space seem to belong to the most fundamental features of our world and is essential to our experience of it. If we look at the beginning of ancient thought, however, we find many different spatial notions, but not yet a unified understanding of space. This workshop will explore some of these spatial notions, prominently but not exclusively Aristotle’s understanding of topos, and will discuss some of the key debates with respect to space in ancient times.
 
Speakers: Dominic O’Meara, Katja Vogt, Gottfried Heinemann, Chiara Martinez, Thomas Seissl, Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, Barbara Sattler, Henry Mendell, Vincenzo De Risi.

Call for Abstracts: We invite up to three more speakers working on themes of the conference (covering accommodation and travel costs within Europe)! Papers (in English or German) should be appropriate for 45 min. of presentation and abstracts between 300-1000 words. Applicants should remove any identifying information on the abstract and include a separate document with their name, email, and affiliation. Abstracts should be sent to Julia Böhm (Julia.Boehm-h66@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) with the subject line “Submission – Spatial Notions Conference”. Submission deadline: May 1, 2025.

Workshop on Feminist Philosophy of Science - Contemporary Trends and Debates, organized from 14-15 July by Friederike Katharina Andrae, Jessica Krumhus and Dunja Šešelja, Wasserstr. 221, 4th Floor.
Keynote Speakers: Julie Jebeile (Bern), Inkeri Koskinen (Helsinki), Federica Russo (Utrecht).
Call for Papers: Abstracts up to 500 words until May 15th, to fem.philosophy.of.science@gmail.com.
Further Info here, inquiries to fem.philosophy.of.science@gmail.com!

From 1-3, September 2025 researchers at RUB led by Prof. Albert Newen organize this years' Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science. The conference takes place at our Convention Center.
Keynotes: Rebecca Böhme (Linköping), Cameron Buckner (Florida), Lars Chittka (London), Stefanie Höhl (Wien), Stefan Scherbaum (Dresden), Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers), Angela Yu (Darmstadt).
Call for Papers: The deadline for submission of talks and poster presentations is 25 April 2025. Further Information