Research Profile
Research Center for Neurophilosophy and Ethics of Neurosciences (Prof. Dr. Stephan Sellmaier)
Research profile
The Research Center's projects fall under the following fields:
- philosophy of cognitive neurosciences (explanation, reduction)
- philosophy and cognitive science of action (mental causation, free will, moral psychology, capabilities/skills)
- philosophy and cognitive science of inference (deductive and non-deductive inference, logic and neural networks, decision-making)
- ethics of the neurosciences (research ethics, human enhancement)
- philosophy of (social) perception
Publications
- Meertens, N. (2024). Hedonic valence at the core of consciousness: A review of "A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness” by Walter Veit. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5.
- Fuchs, R. and Hartmann, S. (2024). Novel Predictions for Boundedly Rational Agents: A Bayesian Analysis. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (Vol. 46).
- Fuchs, R., Tesic, M., and Hahn, U. (2024). Testing the Maximum Entropy Approach to Awareness Growth in Bayesian Epistemology and Decision Theory. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).
- Keshmirian, A., Fuchs, R., Cao, Y., Hartmann, S., and Hahn, U. (in press). From Networks to Narratives: Bayes Nets and the Problems of Argumentation. Forthcoming in: RATIO24 Proceedings.
- with Cao, Y., Fuchs, R., and Keshmirian, A. (in press). Enhancing Argument Generation Using Bayesian Networks. Forthcoming in: RATIO24 Proceedings.
- Kleiner. J. (2024). Towards a Structural Turn in Consciousness Science. In: Consciousness and Cognition (Vol. 119).
- Kleiner, J., Ludwig, T. (2024). What is a Mathematical Structure of Conscious Experience? In: Synthese (Vol. 203).
- Kleiner, J. (2024). [Preprint] The Newman Problem of Consciousness Science.
- Kleiner, J. (2024). [Preprint] Consciousness qua Mortal Computation.
- Carstensen M. W., Sellmaier, S., Taylor P. C. J., Deroy, O. (2023). Dualists and physicalists agree, free will is incompatible with determinism. In: Philosophical Psycholgy .
- Fuchs, R. (2023). An information theoretic analysis of coherence. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).
- Assaad, L., Fuchs, R., Jalalimanesh, A., Phillips, K., Schoeppl, L., & Hahn, U. (2023). [Preprint] A Bayesian Agent-Based Framework for Argument Exchange Across Networks.
- Geiselmann, R., Tsourgianni, A., Deroy, O., & Harris, L. T. (2023). Interacting with agents without a mind: the case for artificial agents. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 51, 101282. Open Access Link. Science Direct.
- Kleiner, J., Hartmann, S. (2023). [Preprint] The Closure of the Physical, Consciousness and Scientific Practice.
- Tull, S., Kleiner, J., St Clere Smithe, T. (2023). [Preprint] Active Inference in String Diagrams: A Categorical Account of Predictive Processing and Free Energy.
- Kleiner, J., Ludwig, T. (2023). [Preprint] The Case for Neurons: A No-Go Theorem for Consciousness on a Chip.
- Keshmirian, A., Hemmatian, B., Bahrami, B. et al. (2022). Diffusion of punishment in collective norm violations. Sci Rep 12, 15318.
- Keshmirian, A., Deroy, O., & Bahrami, B. (2022). Many heads are more utilitarian than one. Cognition, Volume 220, 104965.
- Retkoceri, U. (2022). Remembering emotions. Biol Philos 37, 5.
- Kleiner, J., Hoel, E. (2021). Falsification and Consciousness. In: Neuroscience of Consciousness, 1.
- Kleiner, J., Tull, S. (2021). The Mathematical Structure of Integrated Information Theory. In: Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 6.
- Kleiner, J., Tull, S. (2021). Integrated Information in Process Theories. In: Journal of Cognitive Science, 22.
- Segovia-Cuéllar, A., Del Savio, L. (2021). On the use of evolutionary mismatch theories in debating human prosociality. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 24.
- Rappe S. (forthcoming 2020). Now, Never, or Coming Soon? Prediction and Efficient Language Processing. Pragmatics & Cognition.
- Rappe, S. (2020). Brain-Mind [Review of the book Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity, by P. Thagard]. Metapsychology Online Reviews.
- Urim Retkoceri (2020). False procedural memory. Philosophical Psychology. 1–27.
- Lipski, Joachim. (2020). Natural diversity: A neo-essentialist misconstrual of homeostatic property cluster theory in natural kind debates. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 94-103.
- Battich, Lucas., Fairhurst, Merle, & Deroy, Ophelia. (2020). Coordinating attention requires coordinated senses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Battich, Lucas & Geurts, Bart. (2020). Joint attention and perceptual experience. Synthese.
- Štukelj, Gašper. (2019). On the simplicity of simple heuristics. Adaptive Behavior. 1-11.
- Battich, Lucas. (2018). Are non-human primates Gricean? Intentional communication in language evolution. Pulse: A History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science Journal. Issue 5, 70-88.
- Döhne, Malte, von Grundherr, M., & Schäfer, Mechthild. (2018). Peer influence in bullying: The autonomy-enhancing effect of moral competence. Aggressive Behavior, Advance online publication, 1–10.
- von Grundherr, Michael, & Friedrich, O. (2018). Wie Explikation ethische Abwägungsprozesse beeinflusst: Moralpsychologische Forschungsfragen. In U. Müller, P. Richter, & T. Potthast (Eds.), Abwägen und Anwenden (pp. 151–166). Tübingen: Narr Franke Attempto.
- Friedrich, O., & von Grundherr, Michael. (2018). Moralische Kompetenz und Medizinethikausbildung im Medizinstudium. In U. Müller, P. Richter, & T. Potthast (Eds.), Anwenden und Abwägen (pp. 207–219). Tübingen: Narr Franke Attempto.
- Lipski, Joachim. (2018). Radical Rationalization Accommodates Rampant Irrationality. Organon F, 25(1), 53-73.
- Günther, Mario. (2018). On the Ramsey Test Analysis of 'Because'. Erkenntnis 84
- Steinert, Steffen, & Lipski, Joachim. (2018). Who is Afraid of Commitment? On the Relation of Scientific Evidence and Conceptual Theory. Erkenntnis, 83(3), 477-500