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Psychopathology and the ‘Scaling Up’ Problem 

Psychopathology and the ‘Scaling Up’ Problem 

Zoom Conference  15.00-17.30 (CET), October 5-7, 2020  This conference will focus upon the extent to which phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology are, or must be, 'representation hungry'. Whilst explicitly anti-cognitivist phenomenological...

The dynamics of other-deception and self-deception

The dynamics of other-deception and self-deception

Dr. Anna Wehofsits (University of Munich) 09.06.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin information: ZOOM:https://tu-dortmund.zoom.us/j/98310437212?pwd=ZzlYRHlKSWhxUHRvYTJuSCtXU1hpQT09 Meeting-ID: 983 1043 7212...

What can we learn about mineness from dépersonnalisation? Alexandre Billon (Department of Philosophy, University of Lille) 05.05.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin information:...

Import Theory: The Social Making of Consciousness Wolfgang Prinz (Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) 23.06.2020 - 16.00 - 17.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion) Online Lecture via zoomLogin...

Wie unsere Gedanken unsere Wahrnehmung beeinflussen

Wie unsere Gedanken unsere Wahrnehmung beeinflussen

Bei dieser Studie brauchten die Testpersonen viel Mut, etwas ganz Neues auszuprobieren. Zu wissenschaftlichen Zwecken ließen sie sich hypnotisieren. Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchungen war eine Frage von Prof. Dr. Albert Newen. Der Philosoph und Leiter des „Center...

Training Perception and Action to Do the Right Thing

Training Perception and Action to Do the Right Thing

Prof. Robert Goldstone (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)16.03.2020 - 14.00 - (lecture, followed by an extended discussion)RUB, GA 04/187 (Mercatorraum) Abstract: By one account, formal thought in mathematics and science requires developing deep construals that run...

– CANCELLED – Why perspective taking?

– CANCELLED – Why perspective taking?

Prof. Dr. Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati) 11.03.2020, 4:15 pm - RUB, GA 3/143 We have all been told to take another person's perspective at times. Common sense holds that this makes a difference to our understanding of others. But in recent years, philosophers...