Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2025

Rudolf-Carnap Lectures 2025 & Call for Papers
March 17-19, 2025
Ruhr University Bochum

It’s an honour and a pleasure to announce that the Carnap Lectures in 2025 will be delivered by

Prof. Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland

For the last decades, he has contributed a rich body of very influential work on many aspects of the mind, engaging with work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science which will be reflected in his four lectures:

Lecture 1: The Interpretative Sensory-Access Theory of Self-Knowledge: The Case of Inner Speech
Lecture 2: Understanding Human Motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and Tribalism (Public Lecture)
Lecture 3: The Nature of Pleasure and Desire: Where Philosophers Go Wrong
Lecture 4: Stop Caring About (Phenomenal) Consciousness

Call for Papers:

We invite PhD students and Postdocs up to five years after PhD completion (2020 or later) to submit abstracts (max. 700 words), making thesis and argument transparent. Papers will be selected based on a blind review process. Presenters will receive a financial support in form of a lump sum of 100 Euro (for travel within Germany), 200 Euro (travel in the rest of Europe), and 400 Euro (travel worldwide). Presentations should address topics related to the main recearch topics of the rich work of Peter Carruthers (even if going beyond the topics of presentation).

Submission deadline: December 15th, 2024. 

Please send your submissions to Dr. des. Maja Griem: center-mindcognition@rub.de. Send two PDF files: one file with your anonymized paper and another one with author information (Name, Institution, Contact Details).

Registration

If you want to participate in the event, please register by email to Dr. des. Maja Griem center-mindcognition@rub.de as well.

Further details: www.pe.rub.de/carnaplectures

Scientific Organization: 
Albert Newen & Tobias Schlicht, Ruhr-Universität Bochum