Coordination
Speaker
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Deputy Speaker
Universität Osnabrück
Institute for Philosophy
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Scientific Coordinator
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Deputy Scientific Coordinator
Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Coordination Office
Ruhr-University Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Coordination Assistant
Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
Principal Investigators
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Faculty of Psychology
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute for Philosophy
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Speaker
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
Max-Plack-Institut für Ornithologie
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Steering Committee
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Steering Committee
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Faculty of Psychology
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Former Deputy Speaker
Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Psychology
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Steering Committee
Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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PostDocs (Internal)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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PhDs - 2nd Cohort (2020 - 2023)
PIs: Peter König and Achim Stephan
Project AGEN 2.3: Situated Evaluation of Actions: Acceptability of Decisions by Autonomous Agents
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PI: Onur Güntürkün
Project AGEN 2.1: Embodied Agency in Pigeons: The Integration of a New Arm into a Body Schema
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PI: Albert Newen
Project META 2.2: Situated Cognition is Scaffolded and Flexible. Comparing the Cognition of Humans and Animals
PI: Achim Stephan
Project SESC 2.2: Affective Scaffolding by Extremist Groups
PIs: Ursula Stockhorst, Onur Güntürkün
Project SESC 2.1: Situated Emotions and Social Cognition
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PI: Peter Brössel
Project META 2.1: Non-Symbolic Representation in Situated Cognition. Describing Sensorimotor Representations via Embodied Similarity Spaces
PI: Tobias Schlicht
Project META 2.3: 4E Cognition, Biologism vs. Functionalism
PI: Markus Werning
Project LING 2.1: Effects of Enacted Communication on Meaning: Co-Speech Gestures and Non-Verbal Meaning
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PI: Nikola Kompa
Project LING 2.3: Language as Cognitive Scaffold – On the Cognitive Function of Inner Speech
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PIs: Babett Voigt and Silvia Schneider
Project AGEN 2.4: Enacted Cognition in Pretending the Future: Possible Implications For Proactive Problem Solving in Preschool-Aged Children
PIs: Sven Walter and Peter König
Project AGEN 2.2: Action Control – Prospects of Enactivist Approaches
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PhDs - 3rd Cohort (2023 - 2026)
PIs: Julia Wolf and Achim Stephan
Project 10-SESC: Mindreading, Mindshaping, and Mindexpecting: A Situated Framework for Understanding Crowd’s Mind and Behavior
PI: Onur Güntürkün
Project 5-PERC: The Development of Self-Representations: Mechanisms and Scaffolding Conditions of Mirror Self-Recognition in Pigeons
PI: Peter Brössel
Project 3-PERC: Rational Perceptual Contents in Perception-Action Coupling
PIs: Peter König and Sven Walter
Project 7-AGEN: Action Control – Is the Automatic Approach Bias Embodied?
PI: Babett Voigt and Silvia Schneider
Project 9-SESC: Separation Anxiety Symptoms and their Social Situatedness: The Role of Cross Cultural Norms and Differences
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PI: Nikola Kompa
Project 11-LING: Language as a Means of Embodied Sense-Making
PI: Tobias Schlicht
Project 2-META: Mind wandering and the automatic conscious mind
PI: Peter König
Project 6-AGEN: Situated Evaluation of Actions: Coupled Degrees of Freedom of Sensory Sampling and Action
PI: Simone Pika
Project 8-SESC: “Should I help or should I go?” The Social Dynamics of Illness in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Wild – A Field Observation Study
PI: Markus Werning
Project 12-LING: The Situatedness of Imagination
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PI: Ursula Stockhorst
Project 4-PERC: Embodied Olfactory Experiences: Olfaction under Metabolism
PI: Albert Newen
Project 1-META: Levels of Understanding Oneself and Understanding Others: From Situational Abilities to Internal Represenations
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Associated PhDs and PostDocs
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Department of Philosophy
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute for Philosophy
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
Universitäsklinikum Münster
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute for Philosophy
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Department of Philosophy
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Informal Associated Researchers
Universität Osnabrück
Institute for English and American Studies
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Department of Neuroscience
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RWTH Aachen
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Universität Osnabrück
Institute of Psychology
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Technische Universität Dortmund
Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences
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Fellows
RTG Visiting International Professor
Philosophy of Animal Cognition
York University
Period: ongoing (2023 – 2024)
Visiting International Professor at RUB
Philosophical Issues in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology
Warwick University
Dept. of Philosophy
Period: repeated visits in 2018 & 2019
Virtual Fellow
Embodied Approaches to Memory and Emotion Regulation
Independent Researcher
Period: May 2021
Humboldt-Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow
at Ruhr University Bochum
Philosophy of Perception
Period: ongoing
Humboldt-Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow
at Ruhr University Bochum
Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness
University of Louvain
Period: ongoing
Visiting Senior Researcher
Philosophy of Mind
Associate Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Visiting Researcher at University of Vienna
Period: January 2023 – June 2025
RTG Visiting International Professor
at Ruhr University Bochum
Philosophy of Emotions
University of the Basque Country (ILCLI)
University of Cincinnati
Period: October 2023
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Period: Sep. 2018 & Jan. 2020
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Osnabrück University
Philosophy of Emotions
University of Copenhagen
Period: May 2022
Visiting Senior Researcher
at Osnabrück University
Situated Approach to Artistic Creativity
University of Jyväskylä
Period: May 2023
Mercator-Fellow in FOR 2812
at Ruhr University Bochum
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Macquarie University
Period: until June 2025
University of Jena, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Period: July 2020
RTG Visiting International Professor
at Ruhr University Bochum
Philosophy of Situated Cognition
Aarhus University
Period: ongoing (2022 – 2024)
Former Members
Former Associated Postdoc
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Former Internal Postdoc
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Sub-project: meta4.com
Former Associated Postdoc
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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Former PI
University of Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
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Former Associated Postdoc
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institute for Philosophy II
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