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Program

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Location: Ruhr University Bochum and Online

Date: April, 4th-6th, 2024

Scientific Organization

Dr. Leda Berio & Prof. Albert Newen (both Institute for Philosophy II, RUB)

and Prof. Kristin Andrews (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Canada)

Keynote talks will be in hybrid format. Online participation via Zoom.

Norms and Social Understanding from a Comparative Perspective

Keynote Speakers

Detailed schedule (download)

Thursday, April 4th

9:10 – 9:15

Welcome

9:15 – 10:15

Albert Newen

Social Understanding and Normative Behavior in Human and Non-Human Animals: A General Framework

10:15 – 11:00

Mirko Prokop

Sensorimotor Normativity: A Pluralistic Proposal

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30

Leda Berio

Action-guiding norms

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Thomas Bugnyar

Raven social cognition

15:10 – 15:55

Maja Griem

Are you serious? Investigating Play Signals Yields Important Insights for Animal Communication

15:55 – 16:25

Coffee Break

16:25 – 17:35

Sally Haslanger (Online Presentation)

Social Cognition and Social Regulation: Uptake and Resistance

19:00

Dinner*

*(cost covered only for speakers)

Friday, April 5th

9:00 – 10:10

Judith Burkhardt

Normativity in joint action: A plausible evolutionary pathway?

10:10 – 10:55

Dorna Behdadi

Collaborative Training Protocols as an Example of Interspecies Dyadic Norm Formation

10:55 – 11:25

Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:35

Hannes Rakoczy

Is there such a thing as implicit Theory of Mind in young children (and adults, and non-human animals)?

12:35 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 15:15

Kristin Andrews

The value of social norms in animal cultures

15:15 – 16:00

Bart Geurts

Micro Normativity

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:40 

Dan Kelly

Why is Moral Progress Annoying? Norm Psychology, Affective Friction, and Social Change

18:00

Dinner*

Saturday, April 6th

9:00 – 10:10

Richard Moore

Normative communicative acts in human and animal communication

10:10 – 10:55

Martyna Meyer

The Ecological Model of Interactions for Mindshaping Approaches

10:55 – 11:25

Coffee Break

11:25 – 12:35

Hans-Johann Glock

Animal Normativity? — Hold the Horses!

12:35

Farewell