Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Date: July 13, 2022 – July 15, 2022
Location: online event via Zoom
Organization: Leonard Dung & Eline Kuipers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany
Keynote speakers: Albert Newen & Alistair Isaac & Catherine Stinson
Submission deadline: April 30, 2022
Main page: https://bochumecr.wordpress.com
Zoom link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/67485500763?pwd=RXJUQ3hudWRPQStKWXJseHZSRUY2UT09
Abstract: The Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop is an annual event by and for graduate students and early career researchers. We provide a platform where people entering the academic job market have the opportunity not only for in-depth feedback on their work, but also for personal engagement and career advice from respected senior academics. Our workshop gives an opportunity for accepted speakers to be paired with other early career researchers working on a related topic. The paired researchers receive each other’s papers in advance, prepare detailed commentaries, and present online where they receive feedback from other members of the academia. The workshop will also include a number of slots for socialising and networking, as well as a “Fail Academy” session, where we will be sharing our stories of perseverance and resilience in the academic world.
This workshop offers early career researchers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science an opportunity for in-depth discussion and feedback on their work. Each accepted speaker will be paired with another early career researcher working on a connected topic. The paired speakers will receive each other’s papers in advance and prepare a detailed commentary. Each paper will then get 1 hour: 30 minutes for the speaker’s talk, 10 minutes for the paired speaker’s commentary, and 20 minutes for discussion.
Program
| Times | Wednesday July 13 | Thursday July 14 | Friday July 15 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Maja Griem (Ruhr Universität Bochum) – What Follows Is Play: Intentional Communication in Non-Human Animals | José Carlos Camillo (Universidade Federal de Goiás) – Does Episodic Memory Represent? An Enactivist Perspective | Céline Budding (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Tacit Knowledge as a Target of Intervention in Neural Networks |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Renee Ye (University of Sheffield) – Theoretical Commitment in the Comparative Study of Consciousness | Rebecca Dreier (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – The Nature of Episodic Memory: Belief as Basis Constructivism | Louis Longin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)- Blamed But Not Praised: How AI Advisors Change the Dynamic of Human-AI Interaction |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Break | Break | Break |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Breakout session with informal discussion | Breakout session with informal discussion | Breakout session with informal discussion |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Fail Academy Part 1 | Fail Academy Part 2 | Social Event |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Albert Newen (Ruhr Universität Bochum) – The ALARM Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness | Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh) – Aristotelian Cognitive Science | Catherine Stinson (Queen’s University) – Adversarial Perception in Deep Neural Networks |
The full program can also be obtained from the official event page: https://bochumecr.wordpress.com/2022-edition/
For any queries and clarifications please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at: bochumgradconf@gmail.com