Teaching
Term papers or Essays
Essays or term papers are written according to the following template - Please use the following templates for your essays:
- Cover Page (Vorlage de) (Template en)
- Table of Contents
- Main Text (Seitenzahl ist mit dem Dozenten abzusprechen - The number of pages to be discussed with the lecturer)
- Reference List (Muster_Sample)
- Signed Statement of Authorship (Vorlage_Template)
In the winter semester 2024/2025 Professor Newen offers the following courses:
- Seminar with Sanja Srećković: Animal Minds: Reasoning and Social Understanding (030078)
- Seminar: Wahrnehmen und Verstehen: Sich selbst, die Welt und Andere (030087)
- Interdisciplinary Reading Club: Recent Debates in Philosophy of Mind and Situated Cognition (030127)
- Lecture series: Introduction into Cognitive Science with Jonas Rose and others (030005)
For urgent questions please contact sekretariat-newen@rub.de
Topics for theses
| Philosophy of Mind |
- Theories of self-consciousness / Theories of the ego
- Theories of the self and theories of memory
- Self-knowledge and self-deception
- Theories of social understanding
- Theories of conciousness and the qualia problem
- Philosophy of perception
- Philosophy of emotions
- On the mind-body problem and on mental causation
- Externalism / Internalism: Beliefs and sentence meanings
- Animal Cognition
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| Philosophy of Language |
- On the distinction between semantics and pragmatics
- On the meaning of singular terms (proper names, labels, indicators)
- Reference and predication
- Regelfolgen
- On modern philosophy of language: Grice, Putnam, Lewis, Perry, Schiffer, Brandom.
- Theories of terms
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| Epistemology |
- Skepticism
- Perceptual contents and perceptual judgments
- Perceptions und beliefs / cognitive penetration
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| Ontology |
- Terms
- Propositions
- Mental states and processes
- Rules
- Actions and events
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| Philosophy of Science |
- Causality and mental causation
- Reductivity and emergence
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Additional topics from research and teaching foci
| History of Philosophy |
- On the origins of Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap
- British Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, especially Hume
- Rationalism/Transcendental Philosophy: From Descartes to Kant
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| Practical Philosophy |
- Action theory
- Philosophy of Art
- Ethics of AI
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