Open Philosophy Dinner #∞
02 October 2025
Description
The Science Dinner are informal dinner conversation designed to continue and deepen shared lines of inquiry.
This time, we will recap Wolfgang Sohst’s lecture from August 23, 2025. The lecture addressed process ontology and specific versions of emergence. We will continue and extend the discussion on ontology and teleology, and further explore the anthropomorphic and anthropic principles.
Please find the relevant materials below and on the lecture’s “read more” page.
The Science Dinner also provides an opportunity to introduce new topics, revisit other events and colloquia, discuss questions of understanding, and spend an enjoyable evening in conversation with other thinkers.
Do join if talking helps you think.
Do join if you reflect a lot and would like to share.
Or join if the Colloquia are of interest to you. 🙂
The food is excellent, and Café Marral (Torstraße 222, U Oranienburger Straße) has been a valued host to us for more than 15 years.
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-communication for companies and entrepeneurs, as well as language trainings and simultaneous translations. While studying Philosophy & English at Humboldt University, Berlin, she became a scientific assistant at VIOM GmbH. She founded PhenCoCo in the aftermath of university seminars like “Konstruktion und Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung”, Phänomenologie und Kognition" (M. Thiering) and “Computation und Geist” (J. Bach). She has been involved in different research and development projects, guiding her academic interests towards way finding and cognitive preconditions for navigation, both computational and phenomenological. This includes working on spacial concepts found in philosophy, psychology and robotics, subsuming Gestalt theory, embodiment theories, language/ concept importance, association and intuition. Her personal interests lie in current issues in philosophy, technology and science, specifically navigation, optimisation, and telematics. The last years have added attention to so called ‘AI’ versions and their impact on society, as well as propaganda methods and discrimination topics.
Rosalie Rothe: Rosalie Rothe is a physicist and project leader with experience in IT security and the governance of critical infrastructures. After studying Physics and Energy Science at the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Duisburg‑Essen, she worked in material research at Siemens Energy before moving into international IT management and cybersecurity consulting. She has led transition and rollout projects in regulated industries such as insurance, automotive, pharmaceuticals, and public transport, focusing on compliance, system reliability, and organizational resilience.
Her interests connect technical infrastructures with the phenomenological and cognitive aspects of safety and orientation in complex socio‑technical systems. At PhenCoCo, she contributes insights from digital transformation, standardization, and the societal reflections of emerging technologies.