Workshops

Workshop organized by c:o/re, Aachen University & Dr. Andrei Mărășoiu To understand the context-sensitive justificatory practices at work in scientific pursuits, an understanding of research cultures and the variation therein is necessary. In this light, this workshop addresses the interaction between logic and metaphysical models in scientific practices and social and cultural approaches to these …

Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) Organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) & Christian Berger (Universität Siegen), Ruby de Vos (University of Groningen), Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Our workshop sets out from the obvious, yet underexplored assumption, that much of the very stuff that art is made of …

Workshop with c:o/re Senior Fellows Anna Laktionova, Masahiko Hara and Carl Mitcham from the Colorado School of Mines. The workshop unfolds as a discussion format in which three presentations are followed by discussions and comments. From an engineering perspective, Masahiko Hara speaks about his research on living and non-living systems and their interaction. Following on …

The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“, a research collaboration between artist, biologist and the humanities. During the workshop, different formats and practices of science communication, specially those experimenting with artistic forms, will be discussed. Furthermore, there will be an installation format, …

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 …