Schedule 2026

Venue: Veranstaltungszentrum (Convention Center), RUB Campus, Saal 3

Zoom-Link for Keynotes:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/64235409587?pwd=eqZNaNCs4ZLb8aRs5twlZNHA3Czm12.1

Meeting-ID: 642 3540 9587 | Passwort: 209134

Wednesday, May 27th

09.30 Coffee

09:45 – 10:00 Welcome

10:00 – 11:15 Laurie Paul (Yale): The Paradox of Transformation

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee

11:30 – 12:15 Lucy Psaila (University College London): Transformative Choice, Varieties of Non-Identity Problem, and the Prospects of a Unified Solution

12:15 – 13:00 Rini Kusyuniati (University of California, Santa Cruz): Indirect Phenomenalism: A Theory of Rational Decision-Making with Transformative Experiences

13:00 – 14.30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:15 Mauro Lenti (University of Turin): Multisensory Soup with Bayesian Croutons
15:15 – 16:00 Linde van Schuppen (University Med. Center Utrecht), Roy Dings (Radboud University): Transformative Experience and Attuned Responsiveness in Mental Health Care

16:00 – 18:00 Break (Optional Walk in the Botanical Garden)

18:00 – 19:30 Laurie Paul (Yale): Public Lecture: Transformative Change

20:00 Dinner in Town


Thursday, May 28th

10:00 – 10:45 Tyler Sproule (University of Illinois): What’s Meaningful about Transformative Experience?

10:45 – 11:30 Katherine Caldwell (New York University): Hermeneutical foreclosure and religious de-conversion: a paradigm of morally transformative experience

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee

11:45 – 13.00 Laurie Paul (Yale): The Self in Time

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

15:00 – 18:00 Joint Museum Excursion

19:00 Conference Dinner (@Tapas)
 

Friday, May 29th

10:00 – 11:00 Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol): On the formation of preferences and the value of their satisfaction
11.00 - 11.45 David Chandler (University College London): The project of rational authenticity

11:45 – 12:15 Coffee

12:15 – 13:30 Laurie Paul (Yale): Varieties of possibility 

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch and End