Talks
(Selection)Invited Talks
2022
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
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
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
Further Workshop Participations
2016
socSMCs Autumn School (Boltenhagen) ‘The Sensorimotor Foundation of Social Cognition’
2014
European Campus of Excellence Summer School (RU Bochum) ‘Memory and Mind: Perception from Philosophy and Neuroscience’