The workshop will take place on the 10th & 11th of June 2025, at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Remote attendance will be possible.
If you intend to attend in person, please register until 31 May: https://eac-2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
For remote attendance, no registration is required.
A zoom link and the schedule will soon be available here: https://artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com/
The problem of artificial consciousness will be discussed from multiple perspectives, including metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical perspectives.
Invited speakers: Patrick Butlin, Joanna Bryson, Leonard Dung, Michele Farisco, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Lucia Melloni, Winnie Street.
Among others, talks at this workshop will discuss the following questions:
- How can the science of consciousness contribute to evaluating the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems?
- How can we evaluate the strength of evidence for consciousness in artificial systems?
- How can we evaluate to what extent artificial systems have agency?
- How are consciousness and agency related to moral status?
- Specifically: what moral significance (if any) does phenomenal consciousness have?
- To what extent, and how, should considerations about AI welfare inform policy decisions?
After the workshop, a separate call for papers for a special issue on the workshop’s topic will be launched. All speakers are welcome to submit a manuscript version of their talk to the special issue. The issue will be published in the diamond open access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci; https://philosophymindscience.org).
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 514161146.