Workshops

Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …

Celebration workshop of Markus Pantsar’s book Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (Cambridge University Press 2024) and Gabriele Gramelsberger’s award of the K. Jon Barwise Prize 2023 for philosophy and computing by the American Philosophical Association. Please find the program of the workshop here. If you would like to attend, please write a short …

Organizers: Giora Hon, Ruth Lorand, Gabriele Gramelsberger Please find the program of the workshop here. In this document, you can find all abstracts. If you would like to attend, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. Please note: During the event, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) will take photos and videos for …

Aim: The aim of the workshop is (1) to inform each other about current activities and thus to inform and inspire each other about current perspectives on living lab research in the respective countries, (2) to reflect on these perspectives against the background of different research cultures in the respective countries (3) to identify future …

Abstract: Why political philosophy of technology? Why aren’t the philosophy and ethics of technology adequate? A classic answer is contained in the concluding chapter of Nicomachean Ethics where Aristotle transitions to the Politics: “Ethical arguments may have the power to encourage and stimulate the high-minded and those of noble character, but they are insufficient to …

Organizers: Erica Onnis, Ana María Guzmán, Alexander Schubert Abstract: According to many authors involved in the debate about emergence, ontological emergent phenomena can be characterized as partially dependent on a more fundamental base and causally novel in instantiating new causal properties able to make them autonomous. Moreover, emergence is often recognized as a relevant feature …

Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known as bioinspired materials and biorobotics have posited themselves as domains whose starting point is inspiration from nature, or more precisely, from various ‘natural’ or biological objects and processes found in the natural world. For example, the technology of CRISPR gene …

Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation, governance, and public policy. Yet, many modelers remain detached from the social, ethical, and political implications of their work, often viewing these aspects as irrelevant to the success of the model. The flexibility, variety, and resistance to falsification, coupled with their status as authoritative evidence-making …

Tagung "Der singuläre Satz" by the Research Area "Wissenskulturen" of the Faculty Arts and Humanities of RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with the KHK c:o/re. The event will be held in German. Abstract: Singuläre Sätze zirkulieren in unterschiedlichen Wissenskulturen. Manche dieser Sätze, etwa mathematische Sätze, Weisheitssätze, Gnomen und Aphorismen, sind von vornherein als Einzelsätze konzipiert, …

This workshop explores the borderlands of knowing, where knowledge claims are made and rejected, and where credibility is negotiated through appeals to evidence, replication, plausibility, and authority. Using concepts from history, philosophy, and STS, this workshop examines such subjects as mind control and its attendant sounds, the nature of evidence and its technologies, and how …