Talks
(Selection)Invited Talks
2022
Neural Mechanisms Online Webinar: The Notorious Neurophilosophy of Pain: A Family Resemblance Approach to Idiosyncrasy and Generalizability
Lecture Series ‘Philosophy & Psychopathology of Embodiment in Social Context’ (University Clinics Heidelberg): An Enactive Approach to Acute and Chronic Pain
2021
Colloquium ‘New Developments in Experimental Philosophy’ (University of Zurich): The Folk Concept of Pain: Implication, Cancellability, & Projection
Colloquium ‘Theoretical Philosophy’ (University of Bern): Pain and the Field of Affordances
RUB-UFMG Workshop (online; RU Bochum & Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): A Multidimensional Phenomenal Space for Pain
Colloquium ‘Cognition and Culture’ (online; University of Exeter): An Enactive Approach to Chronic Pain and Its Treatment (with Dr. Peter Stilwell)
2020
Colloquium ‘Philosophy of Cognition’ (online; TU Berlin): Why Bodily Sensations Still Pose a Challenge to Strong Representationalism
2019
Colloquium ‘Philosophy of Nature and Sciences’ (University of Bonn): Strong Intentionalism and the Issue of Bodily Sensations
Internal Research Meeting ‘New Developments in Experimental Philosophy’ (University of Bern): The Paradox of Pain
2018
GAP Workshop ‘Mental Representation, Mechanistic Explanation & Situated Cognition’ (University of Cologne): Pain: Why Representationalists Cannot Account for It
PhilSoc Seminar of the School of Philosophy (ANU): The Causal and Functional Roles of Pain
2017
Colloquium of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunobiology (University Clinic Essen):
Pain Between Neuroscience and Philosophy
Doctoral Colloquium of the Institute of Philosophy (University of Bern): The Integrative Pattern Theory of Pain
Peer-Reviewed Talks
2023
Carnap Lectures with Kim Sterelny (RU Bochum): The Dark Side of Niche Construction
2022
Online Workshop ‘Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind’: What can Neuroscientific Pain Research do for Clinical Practice?
Conference ‘The Emotions: Phenomenology, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy’ (University Clinics Heidelberg): The Lived Experience of Chronic Pain
GAP Conference (HU Berlin): The Mysterious Pain Quality
GAP Conference (HU Berlin): Pluralism and the Role of Mindreading (with Dr. Julia Wolf)
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society ‘Cognitive Diversity’ (online; Toronto): An Experimental-Linguistic Study of the Folk Concept of Pain: Implication, Projection, and Deniability (with Dr. Pascale Willemsen and Prof. Kevin Reuter)
European Society for Psychology and Philosophy Conference (University of Milan): The Folk Concept of Pain: Complex, Not Paradoxical
Workshop on ‘Agency, Bodily Perception, and the Self’ (University of Barcelona): Pain, Action, and Agency
2021
Congress of the German Society for Philosophy (online; University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): Pain and the Significance of Action: Motivating and Challenging Imperative Theories
European Society for Psychology and Philosophy Conference (online; University of Leipzig): A Multidimensional Phenomenal Space for Pain: Structure, Primitiveness, & Utility
European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions Conference (online; University of Graz): A Taxonomy of Environmentally Scaffolded Affectivity (with Prof. Achim Stephan)
Workshop ‘Minds, Models and Mechanisms: Current Trends in Philosophy of Psychiatry’ (online; University of Saarbrücken): An Enactive Approach to Chronic Pain: Addressing Conceptual, Methodological, and Therapeutic Challenges (joint work with Dr. Peter Stilwell)
Workshop ‘Methodology of Situated Cognition Research’ (online; University of Kassel): The Unificatory Value of Enactivism in Clinical Contexts: An Exemplary Study of Chronic Pain (joint work with Dr. Peter Stilwell)
2020
European Experimental Philosophy Conference (online; University of Prague): The Semantics & Norms of Assertion for Pain Reports (with Prof. Kevin Reuter)
2019
Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (Roma Tre): The Family Resemblances of Pain: A Non-Eliminative Approach
2017
Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (University of Bologna): The Dynamics of Pain
European Society for Psychology and Philosophy Conference (University of Herefordshire): The Dynamic Pattern Theory of Physical Pain – An Empirically Informed Approach
Understanding Value Six Conference (University of Sheffield): The Value of Pain
The Human Mind Conference (University of Cambridge): Challenging the Intentional Approach to Pain: Representationalism and Imperativism (Poster Presentation)
Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures with Frank Jackson (RU Bochum): Challenging the Representational Approach to Pain
2016
European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions Conference (University of Athens): Pain and Emotion
2015
European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions Conference (University of Edinburgh): Criteria of Rationality and Their Application to Emotions
Talks at Co-organized Workshops
2022
GAP Satellite Workshop ‘Scaffolding and Niche Construction: Conceptualization and Applications’ (HU Berlin): The Dark Side of Niche Construction
2018
Workshop ‘Investigating the Mind: Pain, Emotion & Affective Disorders’ (RU Bochum): A Space for Pain (Paper Discussion)
2017
Workshop ‘The Nature of Pain: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’ (RU Bochum): The Dynamics of Pain
Spring School ‘Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action’ (RU Bochum): The Dynamic Pattern Theory of Pain – Neuroscientific Insights and their Theoretical Implications