[PHILOS-L] CfP The conscious Mind at 30, Bochum

[Tobias Schlicht]

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The Conscious Mind at 30
Conference at Kunstmuseum Bochum, June 18-19, 2026

In 1996, David Chalmers’ book The Conscious Mind. In search of a fundamental theory shook the Philosophy of Mind by presenting rigorous philosophical arguments and ingenious thought experiments against the physicalistic mainstream. With the aim of laying the philosophical foundation for a scientific study of consciousness, Chalmers introduced the 'hard problem' of consciousness and offered a range of non-reductive approaches to consciousness.

30 years later, the scientific study of consciousness is thriving with its cornerstone of searching the neural correlates of consciousness, adversarial collaborations testing and comparing major theories of consciousness, and complex considerations of markers and tests for consciousness in infants, non-human animals and artificial systems. In this workshop, we want to look back by celebrating the massive influence of The Conscious Mind on philosophers and scientists and look forward to the future of the science of consciousness.

Speakers
David J. Chalmers (New York University)

Axel Cleeremans (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Keith Frankish (Univdersity of Sheffield/University of Crete)

François Kammerer (Archives Henri Poincaré Straßbourg)

Johannes Kleiner (University of Bamberg)

Christian List (LMU Munich)

Lucia Melloni (Ruhr-University Bochum/CIFAR Toronto)

Hedda Hassel Mørch (University of Inland Norway)

Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University)

Martine Nida-Rümelin (Université Fribourg)
Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Anil Seth (University of Sussex)

Call for Posters
We invite early career philosophers and cognitive scientists to submit abstracts of max 700 words on scientific and philosophical themes from The Conscious Mind for poster presentation. Please email to franzisk...@rub.de by April 1st, 2026.

Further Details

https://philevents.org/event/show/144830

Organization

Tobias Schlicht & Lucia Melloni

Ruhr-University Bochum

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht
Professor for Philosophy of Consciousness and Cognition
Institute for Philosophy II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150, GA3/29
44780 Bochum, Germany
www.tobiasschlicht.com

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