Die zentralen Eigenschaften unserer geistigen Fähigkeiten

Das interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg „Situierte Kognition“, bestehend aus Wissenschaftler*innen in Philosophie und Kognitionswissenschaften, geht in die zweite Förderphase. Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft stellt für die Verlängerung bis 2026 rund 3,5 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung. Hauptziel des Kollegs ist es, die Defizite bisheriger Konzepte von Geist und Kognition herauszuarbeiten und eine neue Beschreibung und Erklärung kognitiver Fähigkeiten zu entwickeln. Das bi-lokale Kolleg lebt von der intensiven Zusammenarbeit der Forschenden an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) und der Universität Osnabrück. Unter der Leitung des Sprechers Prof. Dr. Albert Newen vom Institut für Philosophie II in Bochum und des Ko-Sprechers Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan vom Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft in Osnabrück konnten Synergien entwickelt werden, auf denen die Teams aufbauen.

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Fourth Bochum Early Career Researcher Workshop has a call for papers open! The workshop is an annual event by and for graduate students and early career researchers. It is a platform where people entering the academic job market have the opportunity not only for in-depth feedback on their work, but also for personal engagement and career advice from respected senior academics. Submissions are invited from PhD students or researchers who received their PhD less than 2 years before the submission deadline. Consider applying if you would like to boost your academic perspectives!

Organization: Sabrina Coninx, Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea, Maja Griem,

Felix Schreiber, & Julia Wolf

Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2021, 18.15 – 19.45
Online Vortrag via zoom:

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84819968872?pwd=L0s5dzZLSFIwQVhuWlFIcmZPdGxGUT09
Meeting-ID: 848 1996 8872
Passcode: edHkh6

Vortrag organisiert in Zusammenarbeit
des Instituts für Philosophie II mit der
Fachschaft Philosophie

A German-Canadian research team is calling for a more comprehensive approach.

Dr. Sabrina Coninx from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Dr. Peter Stilwell from McGill University, Canada, have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about pain and its management. The researchers advocate not merely reducing chronic pain management to searching and treating underlying physical changes but instead adopting an approach that focuses on the person as a whole. Their work was published online in the journal “Synthese” on 15 April 2021.

It is not currently possible to treat chronic pain effectively in many cases. This has encouraged researchers from various disciplines to consider new approaches to pain and its management over recent years. “Pain research and clinical practice do not take place in a vacuum, but instead involve implicit assumptions regarding what pain is and how it can be treated,” says Sabrina Coninx, research assistant at the Bochum research training group Situated Cognition. “Our aim is to shed light on these assumptions and discover how we can think in new ways about pain and its management with the help of philosophical approaches.” In their work, the authors develop a holistic, integrative and action-oriented approach.

The full article can be found here: https://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2021-04-23-new-perspectives-how-philosophy-can-change-understanding-pain