Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures

The Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures are an annual event started by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen from the Institute of Philosophy II at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in 2007. The Lectures provide a platform for distinguished scholars to present their work in the form of several talks on their preferred topic. The focus is usually on the areas of Philosophy of Mind, Language or Science. In turn, graduate students interested in these topics get the chance to engage in extensive discussion and get in touch with state-of-the-art research. In addition, some of them have the chance to present their own work on related topics during a graduate conference, based on a peer review process.

The lecture series is dedicated to the philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) who was born in Barmen (today: Wuppertal) near Bochum. He studied Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics in Jena and Freiburg, amongst others with Gottlob Frege, and is one of the main representatives of Logical Empiricism.

Prior Carnap-Lecturers include Shaun Gallagher (Memphis), Alva Noë (Berkeley), John Perry (Stanford), David Papineau (London), Tim Crane (Cambridge) & Katalin Farkas (Budapest), Ned Block(NYU) & Susan Carey (Harvard), David J. Chalmers (ANU/NYU), Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts), John Campbell (Berkeley), Patricia Churchland (San Diego), Frank Jackson (ANU), Thomas Metzinger(Mainz), and Frances Egan & Robert Matthews (Rutgers), Cecilia Heyes (Oxford), Kim Sterelny, and Lisa Feldman Barrett (see Archive).