The workshop addresses the big questions that post- and transhumanism are tackling with: What does it mean to be ‘human’? To what extent does being human depend on the existence of the ‘non-human’? Can a being transition in and out of being ‘human’? Can qualities such as mentality and personhood, which have been seen as …
Jose Hernandez Orallo is Professor at the Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence, which is a non-profit foundation made up of the Generalitat Valenciana, companies and the five public universities of the Valencian Community. His talk will be discussing his work around the evaluation and measurement of intelligent systems in general and …
Jakub Szymanik is Associate professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His talk will give insight into his work surrounding meaning, computation, and cognition, more precisely natural language semantics, including generalized quantifiers, and reasoning. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research - Philosophy of …
The workshop organised by Ana Bazzan with Phillip H. Roth and Alin Olteanu charts the use of networks in humanities and social sciences and the consequences of their use for the way we perceive and understand science, society and the world. Please find the program here.
Ophelia Deroy is Professor of philosophy of mind at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Her talk will discuss aspects of experience and thought which challenge individuals' capacity for rational justification or even reflective awareness as part of her research on the interface of philosophy of mind and cognitive neurosciences. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture …
An-archaeology is a procedure to reshape the official foundational accounts of thought through adding virtual and counterfactual narratives. It springs from a certain mistrust in the capacity of any starting point to ground what comes next – and from the idea that no beginning is oblivious to its others. As such it is an attempt …
The 4th conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), which will take place on June 15-18, 2022, is hosted by RWTH Aachen University. Particularly, the Chair of Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics (Professor Irene Mittelberg, Professor Martin Thiering) is hosting this conference with the assistance of c:o/re (Professor Gabriele Grameslberger, Dr. Alin Olteanu) and, …
The last decade has seen a growing preoccupation with philosophies of realism from artists, curators, theorists and historians. But while the arts benefit from this domain of philosophical inquiry, the reverse is also true: the significance of realism in an era characterized by global warming, migrations, and fake news can only be fully understood …
The workshop organised by René von Schomberg and Andoni Ibarra tackles some ‘lead questions’ in open science, responsible innovation and anticipatory governance. Some of those are: Can open scholarship make science more reliable, responsive, credible and inclusive? And does open scholarship lead to a better scientific practice? How should open scholarship be incentivised? What is …
The opening ceremony of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) will take place on Monday, 4th July 2022 at 5 pm at the Aachen Town Hall. In the festive venue of the historical Coronation Hall, we will be celebrating the launch of the International Center for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and History of …
The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) takes place on July 6-9, 2022, in Madrid: “The Politics of Technoscientific Futures” is the topic of this years conference. Phillip Roth, Alin Olteanu and Ana María Guzmán are chairing a panel on “Making Media Futures. From Meaning to Imaginations …
Joost-Pieter Katoen is Professor of software modeling and verifaction at the RWTH University Aachen. His talk will provide insights into his work focussing on probabilistic programs and their applications. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research - Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.
Käte Hamburger Kolleg:
Cultures of Research (c:o/re)
Theaterstraße 75
52062 Aachen
