Research
Our research center has two main aims
- investigate the philosophical implications of findings in the cognitive sciences
- initiate interdisciplinary research on philosophically relevant topic
Completed PhD projects
- The Epistemic Value of Emotions. Inquiries in Politics, Narrative and
Ethics (Dr. Benedetta Romano) - Happy pigs: cognitive and neuronal basics for an interest in continued life (Dr. Felicitas Selter)
- How can we know what is "moral"? Philosophical commitments in empirical research of moral judgment (Dr. David Kaufmann)
- Amusement and Beyond (Dr. Steffen Steinert)
- Reading through Mirror Neurons?: Mindreading Reconsidered (Dr. Ali Yousefi Heris)
- The Formal Structure of Learning (Dr. Mario Günther)
- Sense of agency and action-perception links (Dr. Ondřej Havlíček)
- Translation between psychological and neuroscientific ascriptions (Dr. Joachim Lipski)
- Are trolley dilemma judgment mechanisms evolutionary adaptations? (Dr. Lara Pourabdolrahim)
- Neurophilosophy and Ethics of False Memories and False Beliefs (Dr. Urim Retkoceri)
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Current projects
- Human nature and the feasibility of inclusivist moral progress: Revisiting the social origins of human morality and concerns for fairness
- Group Moral Decisions: Conceptual, computational and neural investigation
- Moral competence
- A Neurophilosophical Approach To Concept Empiricism
- The Nature of Joint Attention: Perception and Other Minds
- Grading will: A non-binary approach to agency
- Metacognition of value-based choices
- Quantum-like approaches in cognitive modeling and neuroscience
- Counterfactual Explanations in XAI Inspired by Human Information Processing
- Neurophilosophy and Ethics of False Memories and False Beliefs
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Selected publications