Academic Activities
Teaching
September – October 2023
Bachelor course in Psychology (VU Amsterdam): Philosophy & Psychology
June 2023
Bachelor course in Biomedical Sciences (VU Amsterdam): Philosophy of Science and Ethics
February – March 2023
Master course in Philosophy of Neuroscience (VU Amsterdam): Neurophilosophy and Psychiatry
Bachelor course in Philosophy (VU Amsterdam): Philosophy of Mind
November – December 2022/23
Course for Minor students in Technology, Law, and Ethics (VU Amsterdam): Philosophy and Neuroethics
Summer Term 2022
Master and PhD course in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum): Interdisciplinary Reading Club: Recent Debates in Situated Cognition and Affectivity
Winter Term 2021/2022
Master and PhD course in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum): Interdisciplinary Reading Club: Recent Debates in Situated Cognition and Affectivity
Bachelor course in Philosophy with Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum): Einführung in Sprach- und Erkenntnisphilosophie (Introduction to Philosophy of Language and Epistemology)
Summer Term 2021
Master and PhD course in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with Dr. Julia Wolf (RU Bochum – online): Interdisciplinary Reading Club: Recent Debates on Animal Cognition and Child Development
Bachelor and Master course in Philosophy with Prof. Beate Krickel (TU Berlin – online): Die Erforschung von Geist und Gehirn: Wissenschaftliche Zusammenhänge und Philosophische Debatten (The Investigation of Mind and Brain: Scientific Contexts and Philosophical Debates)
Winter Term 2020/2021
Master and PhD course in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum – online): Interdisciplinary Reading Club: Recent Debates on Situated Cognition
Summer Term 2020
Bachelor and Master course in Philosophy with Prof. Beate Krickel (TU Berlin – online): Philosophie & Neurowissenschaft (Philosophy & Neuroscience)
Bachelor course in Philosophy (RU Bochum – online): David Hume: Eine Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand
(A Treatise of Human Nature)
Winter Term 2019/2020
Bachelor course in Philosophy (RU Bochum): Einführung in die analytische Philosophie der Emotionen (Introduction to the Analytic Philosophy of Smotions)
Summer Term 2016
Master course in Philosophy and Cognitive Science with Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum): Nature of Pain and Emotion– Investigations from the Perspective of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Administrative Responsibilities
2021 – 2022
Representative of the non-professorial staff in the board of the Faculty for Philosophy and Educational Sciences (RU Bochum)
2020 – 2022
Representative of the non-professorial staff and equal opportunities representative in the Selection Committee and Steering Committee of the RTG ‘Situated Cognition‘ (RU Bochum)
2019 – 2022
Member of the Organization Committee of the Center for Mind & Cognition (RU Bochum): coordination, event organization, and development of social media strategies
2018 – 2022
Member of the Early Career Researchers Board of the Research School (RU Bochum): peer review of funding applications and consultation in process improvement
2017 – 2018
Doctoral representative in the board of the Institute for Philosophy II (RU Bochum)
Networks
Research Network ‘The Role of Ambivalence in the Agency of Suicidal Individuals’ (German Research Foundation) (since 2022)
Founder of the Research Network ‘Experiences of Loss’ with Dr. Marta Caravà (Purdue University), Dr. Regina Farby (Macquarie University), Dr. Becky Millar (University of York), and Dr. Peter Stilwell (McGill University) (since 2022)
Interdisciplinary Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ at RU Bochum and Osnabrück University(German Research Foundation); associated member (2017 – 2020) and internal member (2020 – 2022)
Global Young Faculty (Mercator Research Center Ruhr) (2019 – 2021)
Society for Woman in Philosophy Ruhr (2017 – 2022)
FES Ehemalige & Mentoring (2015 – 2022)
Review Activities
Analysis, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Psychology, Philosopher’s Imprint, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Editorial Work
Associate Editor for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (open access, no publication fees) (since 2022)
Event Organization
Workshop ‘Experiences of Loss: An Interdisciplinary Exploration’
26-27. October 2023
VU Amsterdam
GAP Satellite Workshop ‘Scaffolding and Niche Construction’
16. September 2022
HU Berlin
Co-organizer: Prof. Albert Newen, Prof. Achim Stephan, Dr. Gregor Hörzer
Spring School on Situated Cognition: Applications, Prospects, & Limits
28. – 31. March 2022
RU Bochum
Co-organizers: Prof. Albert Newen, Prof. Achim Stephan, & Dr. Gregor Hörzer
Workshop ‘Situated Affectivity and Social Understanding’
04. Dezember 2021
RU Bochum
Co-organizer: Prof. Albert Newen
Spring School: Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action
06.-10. March 2016
RU Bochum
Main Organizer: Prof. Albert Newen, Prof. Tobias Schlicht & Prof. Shaun Gallagher
Outreach
Podcasts
06/16/2023 ‘The Knowledge Exchange’ Podcast: What’s your philosophy? The Enactive Approach to Pain for Clinical Practice (with Dr. Peter Stilwell)
06/22/2022 – OXcast by Out Of The Box Science
Episode 1: Warum die Sport- und Therapiewelt die Philosophie braucht (Why the World of Sports Science and Therapy Needs Philosophy)
11/11/2021 – PhysioBib Podcast by Nils Reiter & Noak Liam
Episode 10: Schmerz & Philosophie (Pain and Philosophy)
09/15/2021 – Positive Encouragers Podcast by Richmond Stace
Passionate Pain Philosopher
07/24/2021 – The Level Up Podcast by Zak Gabor
Episode 55: Beyond the BPS Model of Pain: An Enactive Approach to Pain and Rehab (with Michael Ray and Dr. Peter Stillwell)
05/14/2021 – The Words Matter Podcast by Oliver Thomson
Episodie 41: Understanding people, pain and practice – Phenomenology, enactivism and affordances with Dr. Sabrina Coninx and Dr. Peter Stilwell
YouTube
01/09/2023 ‘PhysioBib’ by Nils Reiter and Noak Liam
Wie Schmerz unsere Umweltwahrnehmung verändert
(How pain changes our perception of the world)
09/06/2022 ‘PhysioBib’ by Nils Reiter and Noak Liam
Grenzen des bio-psycho-sozialen Modells
(Limits of the bio-psycho-social model)
Presentations for Clinical Practitioners
11/19/2021 – Conference of the German Osteopathy School ‘Osteopathy meets Psychology’ (online; Berlin); with Dr. Peter Stilwell
Philosophical Reflections on Pain, Persons and Practice
05/12/2021 – Pain BC Webinar; with Dr. Peter Stilwell
Is the biopsychosocial model of pain adequate? Conceptual and therapeutic challenges
For a recording of the presentation see here: Youtube
Exhibitions
02-03/2020 – Scientific Support for Public Exhibition
Wie wir die Welt sehen: Philosophie und Kognition
(How we see the world: philosophy and cognition)
Main Organizer: Prof. Albert Newen (RU Bochum)
Location: Blue Square (Bochum)
02-03/2021 – Organizational Support for Cultural Branding
Grenzüberschreitungen: Auslöser, Gefühle, Wirkungen
(Crossing borders: triggers, feelings, effects)
Working Group of the Global Young Faculty
(Mercator Research Center Ruhr)
Press Releases
05/11/2023 – VU News ‘What we communicate when reporting pain’
11/22/2021 – RUB Press ‘How people understand other people’
04/23/2021- RUB Press: ‘How philosophy can change the understanding of pain’