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Notice
AISB event Bulletin Item
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Saphir Graduate Conference, 25-27 Feb 2013, Bochum, GERMANY
Date: February 25-27th 2013
Venue: Ruhr-University Bochum
GA 2/41 - Comenius room
Keynote Speakers: Sabine Döring (Tübingen), Matthias Frisch (Gießen), Hans
Radder (Amsterdam), Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
Conference languages: English and German
Attendance is free but spaces are limited. To register, write an email to
Anna.Welpinghus@rub.de
Program
Monday 2/25
11:00-12:10 Keynote lecture
Jason Stanley (Rutgers) "Abilities"
12:15-13:05 PhD talk
Boris Brandhoff (Bonn) "Beyond Semantic Conceptions of Representation"
14:30-15:20 PosDoc talk
Fabian Lausen (Bielefeld) "Extending Wimsatt's Analysis of Reductionist Biases
in the Life Sciences"
15:25-16:15 PhD talk
Lars Dänzer (Köln) "Semantics, Pragmatics and the Explanation of Utterance
Understanding"
16:30-17:20 PhD talk
Anne-Sophie Brüggen (Bochum) "What is it like to imagine?"
17:30-18:40 Keynote lecture
Sabine Döring (Tübingen) "Warum persistierende Emotionen nicht irrational sind"
Tuesday 2/26
09:30-10:30 Junior Professor talk
Jun-Prof. Gottfried Vosgerau"Eingegebene Gedanken und Gedankenkontrolle" +
Erfahrungsbericht:"Theorie und Praxis der Juniorprofessur"
10:50 --11:40PhD talk
Stephan Kopsieker (Bielefeld) "Modularity and Plasticity in the Immune System"
11:40-12:10 PhD talk
Benita Herder (Köln) TBA
12:20-12:50
Conrad Baetzel (Bonn) "Defending the Resolute Reading of the Tractatus"
14:30-15.40 Keynote lecture
Matthias Frisch (Gießen) "Physics and the Human Face of Causation"
16:00-16:50 PhD talk
Florian Boge (Düsseldorf) "Can Many Minds Solve the Quantum Mystery?"
16:55-17:45 PhD talk
Alexander Gebharter (Düsseldorf) "A formal framework for representing
mechanisms?"
18:00-19:00 Special Event
Sabine Döring/Anna Welpinghus "Frauen in der Philosophie"
Wednesday 2/27
09:30-10:20 PostDoc talk
Erik Stei (Bonn) TBA
10:25-11:15 PhD talk
Florian Fischer (Bonn) "Fundamentale Dispositionen"
11:30-12:20 PhD talk
Matthias Rolffs (Bonn) "Dispositionale Analysen des Anderskönnens"
12:30-13:40 Keynote lecture
Hans Radder (Amsterdam) "Referential realism revisited"
Organizers: Albert Newen (Bochum), Andreas Bartels (Bonn), Martin Carrier
(Bielefeld), Tomoo Ueda (Bochum), Anna Welpinghus (Bochum)
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institut für Philosophie II
Sekretariat Prof. Newen
GA 3/153
44801 Bochum
Tel.: 0234/32-28339
Fax: 0234/32-14963
Email: nicole.bremkens@rub.de
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