Workshops and Conferences Hosted at the Department
The 17th Biennial INEM Conference
September 17th-19th 2025
Onset of Communication
September 24th–25th 2025, Campus Uni Bayreuth
What is the mark of communication? When do we begin to communicate in our developmental life? Is human communication unique, and if so, in what ways? This workshop brings together leading figures from philosophy and psychology, across different schools of thought, to explore these foundational and challenging questions. Speakers are:
- Vasu Reddy (Psychology, University of Portsmouth)
- Ulf Liszkowski (Psychology, Universität Hamburg)
- Malinda Carpenter (Psychology, University of St Andrews)
- Hong-Yu Wong & Krisztina Orbán (Philosophy, Universität Tübingen)
- Dorit Bar-On (Philosophy, University of Connecticut)
- Cristina Borgoni (Philosophy, Universität Bayreuth)
- Antonio Scarafone (Philosophy, LMU Munich)
To enroll, please email <Nicolas.Cuevas-Alvear@uni-bayreuth.de> by July 20th. Please note that the number of participants is limited; participation will be confirmed by July 30.
Details:
Date: 24–25 September 2025
Place: University of Bayreuth, D-95447, Germany
Organizers: Cristina Borgoni & Nicolas Cuevas
Past Workshops and Conferences
Neurodiversity and neurodivergence: the epistemic, political, and ethical dimensions of conceiving differences versus deficits [Poster]
October 10th-11th 2024, Campus Uni Bayreuth
Speakers: Amelia Hicks / Robert Chapman / Manolo Pinedo & Neftalí Villanueva / Miguel Núñez / Natalie Ashton / Virginia Ballesteros / Cristina Borgoni / Gen Eickers
Time & Venue: October 10-11, 2024 / University of Bayreuth (Universitätsstr. 30, 95447 Bayreuth) / Room S5 (GW II) / Link for Online Participation: tba
Organization: Cristina Borgoni / Nicolas Cuevas Alvear / Gen Eickers
Schedule:
October 10, 2024 (Thursday)
11.00–12.00: Robert Chapman: Neuronormativity and Capitalism
12.30-13.30: Manolo Pinedo & Neftalí Villanueva: The Lion, the Infant, and Solaris: Epistemic Injustice and Varieties of the Mental
14.30-15.30: Cristina Borgoni: First-Person Authority in Neurodiversity
16.00-17.00: Natalie Ashton: Learning from Autistic Communities Online
17.15-18.00: Roundtable: AI & Neurodivergence with Shalini Chakraborty
October 11, 2024 (Friday)
11.00–12.00: Virginia Ballesteros: Neurodiversity and the human form(s) of life
12.30-13.30: Miguel Núñez [& Victor Castro]: Non-Ideal Mindedness, Self-Regulation, and Cognitive Diversity
14.30-15.30: Gen Eickers: Divergent Emotions
16.00-17.00: Amelia Hicks: Deficits, Differences, and Ableism in Autism Research: Reflections on the ‘Theory of Mind' Fiasco’
17.15-18.00: Roundtable: Practical Concerns around Inclusion
Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT) Conference
June 26th-28th 2024
Decisions and Collectives
April 12th-13th 2024, Campus Uni Bayreuth
The Workshop aims to shed light on how collectives should choose together and how one should choose on behalf of collectives, and to foster a constructive dialogue between advances in the formal modelling of individual and collective choice and the wider philosophical literature concerning the ontology of agency, practical reason, and democratic theory.
- Christian List
- Nick Makins
- Marina Moreno
- Patricia Rich
- Carol Rovane
- Anne Schwenkenbecher
- Katie Steele
- Bob Sugden
- Bele Wollesen