Graduiertenkolleg verlängert

Graduiertenkolleg verlängert

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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How philosophy can change the understanding of pain

How philosophy can change the understanding of pain

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

Fourth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Fourth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

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!

Interdisciplinary Reading Club & Colloquium: Lecture Series on Animal Cognition & Child Development

Interdisciplinary Reading Club & Colloquium: Lecture Series on Animal Cognition & Child Development

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

Felix Schreiber, & Julia Wolf

11.05.2021 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineMiiamaaria Kujala (University of Jyväskylä) Social perception across species in humans and dogs: Perspectives from behavior, gaze and brains Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81662103553?pwd=VkkvT3cxdU83QVA4eFN1WEtIUTdhdz09 Meeting-ID: 816 6210 3553; Password: WDz3XL
01.06.2021 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineSidney Carls-Diamante (University of Konstanz) The curriculum of the octopus teacher: Lessons for cognitive science and philosophy Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82563127618?pwd=OG4vNWFJOStyVXlHS1ozOU5BRzJiZz09 Meeting-ID: 825 6312 7618; Password: 0v5jnH
08.06.2021 15:00 – 16:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineLouise Barrett (University of Lethbridge) Experts in action: Why primate brain evolution and cognition can‘t ignore the body Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86274537127?pwd=MER3SUtMWnZjNDZuMUxDY0hnN1NDZz09 Meeting-ID: 862 7453 7127; Password: QuP1mG
22.06.2021 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineThomas Bugnyar (University of Vienna) What constitutes “social complexity” and “social intelligence” in birds? Lessons from ravens Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85376599378?pwd=RmVTaHBjYjlnTWl5U1N6Y2tWRnhHdz09 Meeting-ID: 853 7659 9378; Password: 9X53hH
29.06.2021 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineTeresa McCormack (Queen‘s University Belfast) Episodic future thinking and delay discounting in children and adults Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81640098499?pwd=ekFFbU8vaW9RMVB5eldVQVA2eUNxUT09 Meeting-ID: 816 4009 8499; Password: 5qvyhx
13.07.2021 15:00 – 16:30 CET (UTC+2) onlineCristina Atance (University of Ottawa) Episodic foresight in preschoolers Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82517458889?pwd=M2xLekc3cmpPRDVrTEVtdjBUWUdGdz09 Meeting-ID: 825 1745 8889; Password: GMtEf8
Bochum-Grenoble Research Center       Mini-Lecture Series „Memory and Self“

Bochum-Grenoble Research Center Mini-Lecture Series „Memory and Self“

Tuesday 6th April

16.00 – 17.15  André Sant’Anna

  Washington University in St. Louis/

  Centre for Philosophy of Memory (Grenoble)

  “Fluency as the basis of autonoetic consciousness”

17.20 – 18.35    Raphael Milliere (in collaboration with A. Newen)

  Columbia University (New York)

   “Selfless Memories”
  Zoom-Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82409476700?pwd=a1A0aGxTSUQwenowUUYrVUkvbjZOZz09

Wednesday 21st April


16.00 – 17.15   Vilius Dranseika

  Jagiellonian University/

  Centre for Philosophy of Memory (Grenoble)

  “Memory as evidence of personal identity”


17.20 – 18.35    Roy Dings and Albert Newen

  Ruhr University Bochum

  “Episodic Memory and Self:   How the narrativeself shapes episodic recall”

 
 Zoom-Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83662443384?pwd=OVZ3WFhhS0hHUjFEbGw5ZjRQOFFXUT09