Organizers

Current Organizers

Alexander Hölken

Alexander is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum who is supervised by Albert Newen. His research focuses on Dynamical Systems approaches to explaining cognitive behavior as a result of the coordination of intracranial states and processes with states and processes of the body and the environment. His doctoral thesis develops a non-reductive physicalist theory of how mental states/processes can be genuinely causally efficacious.

Caroline Stankozi

Caroline is about to start her PhD with Prof. Tobias Schlicht, working out which kind of coupling warrants speaking of one cognitive process extending beyond an organism’s boundaries. She is currently finishing her Master’s Thesis, discriminating biological, sensorimotor and reflective intentionality and the common mechanism underlying each layer of intentionality.

Past Organizers

Leonard Dung

Leonard is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum who is supervised by Albert Newen. His research aims to develop sets of empirical criteria which can be used to justify attributions of consciousness to particular species of non-human animals and to fruitfully distinguish different forms of non-human consciousness.

Eline Kuipers

Eline is a PhD candidate in the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ located at the Ruhr University Bochum. In her doctoral project, supervised by Peter Brössel, she focuses on the role of sensorimotor representations in perception, action, and cognition. She investigates the possibility of modeling these representations using conceptual spaces.

Bartosz Radomski

Bartosz is a PhD candidate in the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ located at the Ruhr University Bochum. His doctoral project, supervised by Tobias Schlicht and Mark Sprevak, focuses on combining autopoietic enactivism with the free-energy principle to create an account of cognition in both biological and artificial systems.

Maja Griem

Maja is a PhD candidate in the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ located at the Ruhr University Bochum. In her doctoral project, supervised by Albert Newen and Simone Pika, she investigates scaffolded cognition with a focus on animal tool use and communication. Her research interests mainly encompass causal cognition, social cognition, empathy, and learning mechanisms both in animals and humans.

Sabrina Coninx

Is a Postdoc in the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ located at the Ruhr University Bochum. She works in the field of empirically oriented philosophy of mind, especially on the phenomena of bodily sensations, chronic pains, affective disorders, and social understanding.

Roy Dings

Roy Dings is a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr University Bochum. He received his PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen and was a visiting researcher at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, psychiatry and cognitive science; research topics include narrative selfhood, affordances, memory and psychopathology.

Krzysztof Dołęga

Krys is currently a postdoc at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum where he received his PhD under the supervision of professors Schlicht and Dennett. Although his current work focuses primarily on the use of probabilistic models in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, he is also keenly interested in topics relating to conscious experience, social cognition, and the ethics of AI.

Alfredo Vernazzani

Alfredo Vernazzani is currently a researcher and the Managing Director of the Msc in Cognitive Science as well as a student consultant at Ruhr University Bochum. He received his PhD at the University of Bochum and has spent research stays at the Cambridge and Harvard Universities. His research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy of perception, metaphysics, aesthetics, and philosophy of science.