Programm, Wintersemester 2025/26
Hörsaal, 1. Stock, 6.15 pm
10.10 - 12.10.2025
Auftakt-Wochenende
Mit: Volker Quandt, Leiter der IMPRO-AKADEMIE an der Universität Tübingen
22.10.2025
Information Transmission, Representing Noise and the Semantic Content of Transmitted Signals
Seminar
Reading: Information or Noise? In: Deacon, T. Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter, 2012
Seminar Guest: Prof. Dr. Ben Jantzen (Virginia Tech, USA)
29.10.2025
Information And Meaning Cont. + Prep-Session for next Session on Classical Decision-Making
Seminar
05.11.2025
Signal or Noise? The Psychophysics of Decision-Making
Talk & Discussion
Prof. Dr. Rolf Ulrich (Psychologie, Universität Tübingen)
Prep Reading: Blogpost: The Many Schools of the Great Rationality Debate
12.11.2025
Statistical Modeling of Signal and Noise
Talk & Discussion
Dr. Sabine Hoffmann (Institut für Statistik, LMU München)
Prep Reading: The multiplicity of analysis strategies jeopardizes replicability: lessons learned across disciplines. Hoffmann et al. 2021. Royal Society Open Science.
19.11.2025
Theories of Perception: Unconscious Inferences, Constancy, and Perceptual Organization
Talk & Discussion – Abstract below.
Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Mallot (Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Biology University of Tübingen)
Prep Reading: Helmholtz - Physiologische Optik 1867 Paragraph 26 / Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics - Paragraph 26
26.11.2025
Seminar Prep-Session for K. Munger's Spirals
Reading:
Blog post „in the belly of the MrBeast“ by Kevin Munger
Vilém Flusser (2022). Communicology — Mutations in Human Relations?, Synopsis (p. 1-7)
Blog post „The Rise of Parasitic AI“ (can be skimmed)
03.12.2025
Spirals
Talk & Discussion
Prof. Dr. Kevin Munger (Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
10.12.2025
Brainstorming Project Groups
17.12.2025
Tba
Seminar
07.01.2026
Tba
Seminar & Discussion
Prof. Dr. Robert Williamson (Foundations of Machine Learning Systems, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tübingen)
14.01.2026
Sticking to an Information Diet: Significance, Social Media, Signal Processing
Talk & Discussion
Prof. Dr. Philipp Hennig (Methods of Machine Learning, University of Tübingen)
21.01.2026
Ontology of the Ambience: Noise, Signal, Information, and War
Talk & Discussion (Online)
Prof. Dr. Chen-Pang Yeang (Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto)
28.01.2026
Tba
Talk & Discussion (Online)
Prof. Dr. Max Raginsky (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
04.02.2026
Prep Session for 2 day-Seminar
2nd week February 2026
Bayesianism in Philosophy & Science
2 day-Seminar
Dr. Tom Sterkenburg (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU München)
Rafael Fuchs (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU München)