Index
Colloquia
- #26 The Element of life - Carbon
- Open regular´s table 20.03.24
- #25 Elemonsters - Making the Game
- Regular open table discussion 21.02.24
- #24 Unprompted Discoveries of Near Future Economies
- #23 Whiteness in spheres and spaces - German context
- #22 Radical Universalism
- #21 Philosophy and Fiction
- #20 On Digital Control
- #18 Self-Reflexions on Digital Identiy
- #17 On the genealogy of privacy
- #16 Digital Self-Determination and Personal Identity
- #15 On drones and autonomy “Flying brains or airborne lemmings?”
- #14 AI and cognitive assistance systems
- #13 AI - again: ML and Neural networks
- #12 On non-technological characterisations of intelligence
- #11 Imagination, Intelligence and Identity
- #10 On open source, free vs proprietary software & intellectual property
- #9 Technological nuances of artificial intelligence systems
- #8 The need for magic - On AI, translation & navigation
- #7 Artificial Ignorance and Digital Counter-Enlightenment & User Experience Design
- #6 On Distributed Cognition
- #5 On Embodiment
- #4 On Mind and Language
- #3 On Phenomenology
- #2 On Computation
- #1 On Cognition
- #0 Kick Off Meeting
Special-Guest Workshops
Workshops and Colloquia
Colloqium #26
The Element of life - Carbon
23 March 2024
Description
On earth, life is undoubtedly based on carbon (C), or more precisely: on carbohydrate chemistry, but does it have to be this way? Yes, because its position within the periodic system of elements (PSE) grants carbon a series of particular properties which let it stand out before all other elements! … read more
Speakers
Stefan Mebs: Chemistry studies in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin PhD 2009 in the chemistry department at FU-Berlin (X-ray diffraction/crystallography) Currently … read more
Colloqium
Open regular´s table 20.03.24
20 March 2024
Description
The open regular´s table will inform on new event opportunities surrounding PhenCoCo and is a good place to get to know the event-style and to check, whether you can use it for your own thinking processes. As you might have gathered, we take time to think - together. :) And we are doing it, since … read more
Speakers
no speakers listedColloqium #25
Elemonsters - Making the Game
24 February 2024
Description
Elemonsters is a transmedia storyworld about the chemical elements, that have come to life as monsters – materialized in a card game. Think of it as “Pokémon with chemistry”.
In this lecture I will talk about the origin story of the idea, the several stages of development, the final output and its … read more
Speakers
Andreas Dihm: After seriously trying to study physics for two semesters Andreas Dihm realized, that he will become neither a scientist nor an astronaut. Instead he … read more
Expert Guests
Stefan Mebs: Chemistry studies in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin PhD 2009 in the chemistry department at FU-Berlin (X-ray diffraction/crystallography) Currently … read more
Moderation
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium
Regular open table discussion 21.02.24
21 February 2024
Description
The second regular´s table in 2024 - or should it be called open table? - was a run through of topics. Here a try to recap in an interesting fashion.
There were four of us, with backgounds in chemistry/ bio-physics, biology, narration/ media storytelling and philosophy/ measure and steering … read more
Speakers
no speakers listedColloqium #24
Unprompted Discoveries of Near Future Economies
15 April 2023
Description
It seems unlikely for an AGI develop without an economy as the basis for its interaction with humans. Military applications are another conceivable path.
A well known narrow AI that—one might argue—specializes exactly on alignment agrees that the economy alone will not solve the alignment problem. … read more
Speakers
Joaflux J.Stein: Joaoflux (yet another predictive model) Training Data: Works of fine art (mostly 20th century) Contemporary and 19th century fiction A small and … read more
Colloqium #23
Whiteness in spheres and spaces - German context
14 January 2023
Description
In the aftermath George Floyd’s death, the debate on “Black Lives Matter” gained momentum also in Germany. BIPoC demonstrated with white people for equality and equity for BIPoC. Although many Germans rejected racism publicly, the notion was omnipresent that Germany’s racism is not as deeply rooted … read more
Speakers
Cosima Werner: Dr. Cosima Werner, University of Kiel, Department of Geography
Colloqium #22
Radical Universalism
03 December 2022
Description
Radical universalism is the end of the epidemic particularism, which has paralyzed left and progressive forces throughout the western societies in the last 40 years. Radical feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Valerie Solanas exemplify how identity politics as a successful force from `68 until the … read more
Speakers
Kristian Knall: I do not exist. I am a psydonym, Kristjan Knall. My books are unapologetically revolutionary, pseudo-scientific in the worst possible sense and should … read more
Colloqium #21
Philosophy and Fiction
27 November 2022
Description
Philosophy actually has more than one beginning, and in the beginnings of philosophy, the principle of fiction plays a central role.
Two of the many beginnings of philosophy are being touched:
One beginning of philosophy in Greece, which is often understood as singular and monolithic, which can be … read more
Speakers
Jörg Ossenkopp : For many years, Dr.phil. Jörg Ossenkopp has worked on the topic of philosophy as a way of life. For a living, he works on a freelance basis as an … read more
Colloqium #20
On Digital Control
01 October 2022
Description
About the Presentation
A new book on fairytales about digitalization serves as an example of how narration can shape our experiences of the world. Such narration can be overt and covert, depending on the sovereignty of its protagonists. The philosophers Bentham and Foucault point out how society … read more
Speakers
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium #18
Self-Reflexions on Digital Identiy
September 2020
Description
In reference to his own digital identity, Anil K. Jain reflects on the changes of identity construction in the course of modernity and its latest turns (ie identity vs. difference, biometry vs. data mining etc.). Finally, uptopian and dystopian aspects are discussed.
Speakers
Anil Jain: Anil K. Jain studied political science, psychology and sociology at the LMU Munich and wrote a doctoral thesis on »Politics in (Post-)Modernity« under … read more
Colloqium #17
On the genealogy of privacy
July 2020
Description
A lot of bandwidth is taken up these days with the question of privacy, but few have thought to question privacy itself. For how long have human beings been private? For how long has privacy even been possible?
Paying special attention to the Roman origins of the word privacy (as well as of … read more
Speakers
Robert Dudley: Robert Dudley is a Fulbright Graduate Fellow and PhD from Duke University with a dissertation on Cicero's use and interpretation of Plato in the … read more
Colloqium #16
Digital Self-Determination and Personal Identity
May 2020
Description
A look at how digital and analogue environments impact personal identity and the personal management of identity data
A study by the University in Köln tries to establish "digital self-determination" as research object (first version 2016, current version 2018) and to find out what society and … read more
Speakers
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium #15
On drones and autonomy “Flying brains or airborne lemmings?”
March 2020
Description
"Drones and autonomy - “Flying brains or airborne lemmings?”
Two main question normally decide on the business and the legal success of the organizations - does the idea make sense and offer a sustainable business and will operations follow the rules. The speaker invites thinkers from science, art … read more
Speakers
Michael Wieland: Michael Wieland studied electrical engineering at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, developed one of the first MBA programs in Germany at Steinbeis … read more
Colloqium #14
AI and cognitive assistance systems
January 2020
Description
Programm:
An introduction on assistance systems of unmanned aerial vehicles and cars, followed by a lecture on cognitive assistance systems, based on machine learning technologies and their implementation in traffic, health, knowledge systems and other areas.
We are going to draw on what we have … read more
Speakers
Stefan Schaffer: Stefan Schaffer is a senior researcher and project manager at the Cognitive Assistants Department of the German Research Center for Artificial … read more
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium #13
AI - again: ML and Neural networks
August 2019
Description
An Introduction, and 1-2 Lectures on neural networks and machine learning technologies and their importance in economy and in general.
We are going to draw on what we have discussed in previous coloquia on AI, deep learning, what algorithms are involved and talk about some of these technologies in … read more
Speakers
Joachím Gomez Prats: Dipl.-Ing. Joaquín Gomez Prats, Key Skills: Data Science, Machine Learning, Elektrotechnik, Prototyping, KI-Beratung, Vorträge. Wichtigste angewandte … read more
Colloqium #12
On non-technological characterisations of intelligence
July 2019
Description
In nearly all of the past colloquia about Artificial Intelligence, someone in the audience asked the question, what intelligence generally is. This is in fact a very basic question – if we don´t know what intelligence is, we cannot attribute it to a specific subject, may it be a human being, an … read more
Speakers
Katja Stepec: Dr. Katja Stepec, I am an independent researcher, mainly in the field of philosophy of language. I studied philosophy and history at FernUniversität … read more
Colloqium #11
Imagination, Intelligence and Identity
June 2019
Description
Lecture 1: On What There Isn’t: Imagination, Impossibilities, and Counterfactual Reasoning
Abstract:
For the second half of the 20th century, and on into the 21st, phenomenologically evident imagination, i.e., imagination which any given individual consciously experiences and can uniquely – at … read more
Speakers
Ed Reno: Ed Reno did his graduate work in philosophy at Yale University, and taught for a number of years after in the philosophy department at Fordham … read more
Jason Ciaccio: Jason Ciaccio holds a PhD in comparative literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He teaches in the English Department … read more
Colloqium #10
On open source, free vs proprietary software & intellectual property
May 2019
Description
Lecture 1:
On the principles behind free software and “intellectual property”.
One way or another almost anybody got in touch with issues relating to so called “intellectual property”. Despite increasing usage, intimacy and dangers, when it comes to issues relating to the way software is produced … read more
Speakers
Michael Scheppat: Michael Scheppat mastered computer sciences and also studied ancient greek philosophy (FU/HU Berlin). The rightful connection of those two desciplines … read more
York Johannsen: York is a Linux administrator who has been working with different setups and environments for many years. His passion for FOSS is both private and … read more
Colloqium #9
Technological nuances of artificial intelligence systems
March 2019
Description
3 Lectures on Ai technologies and philosophical and social implications
1 On artificial intelligence and the technologies that supposedly amount to it. Speaker: Auris-E. Lipinski
2 Using evolutionary algorithms for neural network generation. Speaker: Kristina Georgieva
3 Mor(e)on: Why AI seems … read more
Speakers
Kristina Georgieva: Data scientist, software engineer, poet, writer
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Alexander Mankowsky: Futurist Mercedes Benz AG & FU, Future Studies & Ideation as a working field requires explanation: Future Studies normally results in reports made … read more
Moderation
Anna Strasser: After postdoctoral positions as scientific researcher and coordinator in Freiburg (Center for Cognitive Science) (2004-07) & Berlin (Berlin School of … read more
Colloqium #8
The need for magic - On AI, translation & navigation
January 2019
Description
The need for magic: On artificial intelligence, translation & navigation
Introduction by Alexander Mankowksy
Presentation by Auris-E Lipinski: Translation as (magical) transformation in navigation and path descriptions
Presentation Katja Stepec: Translation as a criterion for Artificial … read more
Speakers
Alexander Mankowsky: Futurist Mercedes Benz AG & FU, Future Studies & Ideation as a working field requires explanation: Future Studies normally results in reports made … read more
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Katja Stepec: Dr. Katja Stepec, I am an independent researcher, mainly in the field of philosophy of language. I studied philosophy and history at FernUniversität … read more
Colloqium #7
Artificial Ignorance and Digital Counter-Enlightenment & User Experience Design
November 2018
Description
Programm:
14:00 h Introduction AEL
14:20 h R.M. Presentation
15:20 h Discussion
15:50 h Pause
16:00 h A.J. Presentation
17:00 h Discussion
17:30 h Pause
17:40 h Diskussion of both presentations
About presentation 1
Digital Counter-Enlightenment and “User Experience Design”.
On Nudging, Tracking … read more
Speakers
Rainer Mühlhoff: Rainer Mühlhoffs Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen in der Ethik, Sozialphilosophie, Technikphilosophie und Medienwissenschaft der digitalen Gesellschaft. … read more
Anil Jain: Anil K. Jain studied political science, psychology and sociology at the LMU Munich and wrote a doctoral thesis on »Politics in (Post-)Modernity« under … read more
Special-Guest Workshop
Special Guest Workshop with Dan Zahavi: On Subjectivity, Empathy and Shame
November 2015
Description
Topic: Self and Other: exploring subjectivity, empathy, and shame
The Workshop will put emphasis on a detailed reading of the book. Two preparation sessions will ensure our common ground for the matter and help prepare the presentation of Zahavi´s work.
Organisational co-operation with Anna … read more
Speakers
Nicolas Zaslawski
Marine Kneubühler
Expert Guests
Anna Strasser: After postdoctoral positions as scientific researcher and coordinator in Freiburg (Center for Cognitive Science) (2004-07) & Berlin (Berlin School of … read more
Dan Zahavi: Dan Zahavi (born 1967) is a Danish philosopher. He is currently a professor of philosophy at University of Copenhagen.
Moderation
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium #6
On Distributed Cognition
March 2015
Description
Our sixth colloquium took place on 7th March 2015. It was a presentation and discussion of a take on distributed cognition and perception by Auris-E. Lipinski. It took place in the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Room 2093 and was a discussion on cognition beyond the individual, … read more
Speakers
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Expert Guests
Martin Thiering (Expert Guest): rof. Dr. Martin Thiering's interdisciplinary, difference-theoretical-semiotic approach to meaning-making and shaping processes in multimedia and … read more
Colloqium #5
On Embodiment
October 2014
Description
Our fifth colloquium "Embodiment" took place on 25th October 2014. It was a closer look on different versions of embodiment, situated cognition and related concepts with a focus on the Extended Mind Hypothesis.
Many approaches concerning the embodiment issues are motivated by a felt lack of … read more
Speakers
Gonzalo Rojas: Former Teammate and Phenomenology/ Embodiment Student
Denis E. Vargas Gorenkov: Former Teammate and Phenomenology Student/Researcher
Expert Guests
Anna Strasser: After postdoctoral positions as scientific researcher and coordinator in Freiburg (Center for Cognitive Science) (2004-07) & Berlin (Berlin School of … read more
Colloqium #4
On Mind and Language
May 2014
Description
Our fourth workshop "Mind and Language" took place on the 31st May 2014 and had a keen eye on the way how functionality, intentionality and language are intertwined, what the role of language in different moments is or can be, in relation to perception and our 'mental' concepts.
A look on how the … read more
Speakers
Sophie De Beukelaer: Then, student of Philosophy and Medicine
Anna D´Andrea: Then, student of Philosophy and focussed on DAvidson and Mind and Language
Jens Schönherr: Former Teammate, Philsoophy BA, PC-Knowledge, Deep understanding of mental capacities.
Colloqium #3
On Phenomenology
April 2014
Description
Our third workshop “Phenomenology” took place on 19th April 2014 and gave an overview over an analytical understanding of phenomenology, including a historical overview over the three classical phenomenological positions on the grounds of a paper by Zahavi and Thompson.
Speakers
Denis E. Vargas Gorenkov: Former Teammate and Phenomenology Student/Researcher
Expert Guests
Martin Thiering (Expert Guest): rof. Dr. Martin Thiering's interdisciplinary, difference-theoretical-semiotic approach to meaning-making and shaping processes in multimedia and … read more
Colloqium #2
On Computation
February 2014
Description
In our second Workshop (22nd February 2014), we covered the general grounds of computation and historical events leading up to system dynamics, artificial intelligence and more philosophically specific, the representational theory of mind and the computational theory of mind.
Speakers
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Ralf Lipinski: CEO VIOM GmbH, Computer specialist
Expert Guests
Joscha Bach (Expert Guest): Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. … read more
Colloqium #1
On Cognition
January 2014
Description
In our first colloquium (25th January 2014) we covered the grounds of cognition in general and cognition in philosophy.
Speakers
Jens Schönherr: Former Teammate, Philsoophy BA, PC-Knowledge, Deep understanding of mental capacities.
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Colloqium #0
Kick Off Meeting
October 2013
Description
First Meeting of the PhenCoCo Project with a presentation on David Chalmers´’The Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition.'
Speakers
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for … read more
Expert Guests
Martin Thiering (Expert Guest): rof. Dr. Martin Thiering's interdisciplinary, difference-theoretical-semiotic approach to meaning-making and shaping processes in multimedia and … read more