Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Recently, we had the honor to welcome the first awardee of the Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett for outstanding scientific achievements.

Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the author of the bestselling books How emotions are made (New York 2017) and Seven and a half lessons about the brain (New York 2020), translated into numerous languages. In addition, she is the editor of several collections and author of many academic and popular articles. 

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