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Shaun Gallagher holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has secondary appointments as Research Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Hertfordshire in England, Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and as affiliated research faculty member at the Institute of Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and hermeneutics. He received his Ph.D in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College and studied philosophy at Villanova University and Leuven, and economics at the State University of New York - Buffalo. He has held visiting positions at several international Universities, including the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée in Paris; the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon; the University of Copenhagen; and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. His previous positions include Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis geht an RUB-Gastwissenschaftler |
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Prof. Bence Nanay has been awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation for December 2017 where he will work on the development of a systematic account of perception. He obtained his PhD in philosophy in 2006 under the supervision of John Searle at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently Professor of Philosophy, BOF Research Professor and co-director of the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. His areas of specialization include Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology and Aesthetics. Besides, he works in Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. Prof. Nanay has published extensively on the topics of perception, action and attention. Key publications include his monograph "Between Perception and Action" (2014, Oxford University Press), "The role of imagination in decision-making" (2016, Mind & Language), "Perceptual content and the content of mental imagery" (2015, Philosophical Studies), "A Modal Theory of Function" (2010, Journal of Philosophy) and "Attention and Perceptual Content" (2010, Analysis). |
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Prof. Edouard Machery is a philosopher of science. He specializes in philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience. Prof. Machery also works empirically, investigating moral psychology, semantics, and folk epistemology. This year, Prof. Machery has been awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation. In December 2017, he will be working with Prof. Newen to develop an empirical research program addressing recent controversies concerning concepts and animal cognition. Their joint work will foster and support the activities of the first experimental philosophy group in Germany which has been established in Bochum in 2014. Prof. Machery received his PhD in philosophy at the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne in 2004, and is currently Distinguished Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Key publications include his monograph "Doing without Concepts" (2009, Oxford University Press), "Gettier Across Cultures" (2016, Nous), "If intuitions vary, then what?" (2013, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), "Two conceptions of subjective experience" (2010, Philosophical Studies), "Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style" (2004, Cognition). |
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Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading. Prof. Glock is a highly accomplished and re- nowned philosopher. His main contributions have been to four distinct areas of research: History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Mind and Animals Cognition. For 2014-15 he received a Research Award of the Alexander of Humboldt Foundation. During his stay, he will collaborate with members of the Depart. of Philosophy II as well as the Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution in Bochum. Alexander von Humboldt Research Award |
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Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bloomington, Indiana. He is well-known internationally for his outstanding research in animal mind, philosophy of biology and artificial intelligence. It is characteristic for his work that he combines philosophical analysis with empirical cognitive sciences, especially relying on recent developments in animal research and robotics. Important books are entitled "Species of the Mind", "The Cognitive Animal" and "Moral Machines". |
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John Perry is currently Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and part of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI.) He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, and self-knowledge. Furthermore, he is well known for his contributions towards public understanding of science, including co-hosting the radio-show "Philosophy talk" and the humorous essay "Structured Procrastination", for which he was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Literature. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Doane College in 1964 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1968. In 1999, he was awarded with the Jean Nicod Prize and became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2003. |
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Gabriele Ferretti started his two-year Humboldt-Postdoc Fellowship in December 2020 at RUB. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Mind from the Centre for Philosophical Psychological at the University of Antwerp in 2016 and a second Ph.D. in Complexity Science from the Department of Pure and Applied Science at Urbino Carlo Bo University, Italy. There he continued as a postdoctoral fellow working on his project 'Visual Perception in Action' that was supported by research grant from the Franco and Marilisa Caligara Foundation. Her received further research fellowships from the University of Florence and Basel. This last fellowship, he realized as a NOMIS Fellow at Eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image in Basel, Switzerland. His research focus is empirically informed Philosophy of Perception and Action drawing on Cognitive Science, especially Visual and Motor Neuroscience, as well as experimental evidence for models of visual perception. His main interest concerns the relation between Vision, Pictorial Perception and the Motoric. Further research topics include Practical Knowledge and Molyneux Question. His publications include two co-authored books (Ferretti, G., & Glenney, B. (2020). Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy. Routledge, Ferretti, G. & Zipoli Caiani, S. (2018). Vedere ed Agire. (Seeing and Acting). Editrice Il Mulino.) and various articles spanning his wide research interests such as Ferretti, G. & Marchi, F. (2020). Visual Attention in Pictorial Perception. Synthese, Ferretti, G. (2018). The Neural Dynamics of Seeing-In. Erkenntnis, 84(6), 1285-1324 and Ferretti, G. (2016). Pictures, Action Properties and Motor Related Effects. Synthese, Special Issue: Neuroscience and Its Philosophy, 193(12), 3787-3817). |
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From October to December 2011, Luca Barlassina was a research fellow at the Bochum Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution, where he will join Prof. Newen's research group on social cognition. In May 2011 Luca Barlassina got a PhD in philosophy from the University of Milan. During his PhD, he was a visiting graduate student at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and at the Institut Jean Nicod. His research lies at the intersection between philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with a special focus on social cognition. He has authored and co-authored papers on mental simulation, disgust attribution, and moral judgment in autism. He's currently working on mirror mechanisms, phenomenal mindreading, and the embodied character of emotions. |
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Dr. Cameron Buckner received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2011. His primary research area is the philosophy of cognitive science, and he also has a background in artificial intelligence. His dissertation is on the structure of cognition and the nature of mental content. He has published in the areas of philosophy of mind, computer science, and psychology. He is co-founder of the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project, which began in 2005 to serve the information needs of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by integrating developments from information extraction, social computing, knowledge representation, and logic programming. |
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