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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