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24Interpretation und Rekonstruktion der Ontologie in Wittgensteins TractatusGrazer Philosophische Studien 41 (1): 33-65. 1991.Der Tractatus logico-philosophicus zeichnet sich durch eine eigenwillige Verbindung von logischem und physikalischem Atomismus aus. Der Zusammenhang von logischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Analyse wird bei Wittgenstein durch die Bildtheorie hergestellt und führt zu einem bildabhängigen Realismus. Diese Version des Realismus wird in einem Modell von physikalischen Eigenschaftspartikeln rekonstruiert. Die Gegenstände sind weder,bare particulars' ohne Eigenschaften noch Vektoren mit geometrischen…Read more
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20Determining the Function of Social Referencing: The Role of Familiarity and Situational ThreatFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.In ambiguous situations, infants have the tendency to gather information from a social interaction partner to regulate their behavior [social referencing ]. There are two main competing theories concerning SR’s function. According to social-cognitive information-seeking accounts, infants look at social interaction partners to gain information about the ambiguous situation. According to co-regulation accounts, infants look at social interaction partners to receive emotional support. This review p…Read more
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17Selfless MemoriesErkenntnis 89 (3): 897-918. 2024.Many authors claim that being conscious constitutively involves being self-conscious, or conscious of oneself. This claim appears to be threatened by reports of ‘selfless’ episodes, or conscious episodes lacking self-consciousness, recently described in a number of pathological and nonpathological conditions. However, the credibility of these reports has in turn been challenged on the following grounds: remembering and reporting a past conscious episode as an episode that one went through is onl…Read more
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17Situated authenticity in episodic memorySynthese 202 (3): 1-21. 2023.A recalled memory is deemed authentic when it accurately represents how one experienced the original event. However, given the convincing research in cognitive science on the constructive nature of memory, this inevitably leads to the question of the ‘bounds of authenticity’. That is, how similar does a memory have to be to the original experience to still count as authentic? In this paper we propose a novel account of ‘Situated Authenticity’ which highlights that the norms of authenticity are c…Read more
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16Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.Heintz & Scott-Phillips's account of human expression leaves a number of central issues unclear – not least, whether the lack of expression in nonhuman species is attributable to their lack of the relevant metarepresentational abilities, an absence of trust, or a consequence of other factors. In place of their view, we propose a gradualistic account of the origins of human expression.
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14In recent years, theories of social understanding have moved away from arguing that just one epistemic strategy, such as theory-based inference or simulation constitutes our ability of social understanding. Empirical observations speak against any monistic view and have given rise to pluralistic accounts arguing that humans rely on a large variety of epistemic strategies in social understanding. We agree with this promising pluralist approach, but highlight two open questions: what is the residu…Read more
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14Rethinking Integration of Epistemic Strategies in Social Understanding: Examining the Central Role of Mindreading in Pluralist AccountsErkenntnis 88 (7): 2967-2995. 2023.In recent years, theories of social understanding have moved away from arguing that just one epistemic strategy, such as theory-based inference or simulation constitutes our ability of social understanding. Empirical observations speak against any monistic view and have given rise to pluralistic accounts arguing that humans rely on a large variety of epistemic strategies in social understanding. We agree with this promising pluralist approach, but highlight two open questions: what is the residu…Read more
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13Interpretation und Rekonstruktion der Ontologie in Wittgensteins TractatusGrazer Philosophische Studien 41 (1): 33-65. 1991.Der Tractatus logico-philosophicus zeichnet sich durch eine eigenwillige Verbindung von logischem und physikalischem Atomismus aus. Der Zusammenhang von logischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Analyse wird bei Wittgenstein durch die Bildtheorie hergestellt und führt zu einem bildabhängigen Realismus. Diese Version des Realismus wird in einem Modell von physikalischen Eigenschaftspartikeln rekonstruiert. Die Gegenstände sind weder,bare particulars' ohne Eigenschaften noch Vektoren mit geometrischen…Read more
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12Consciousness, Reductionism and the Explanatory Gap: Investigations in Honor of Rudolf CarnapPhilosophia 39 (1): 1-3. 2011.
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12Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes (edited book)CSLI Press. 1997.This volume is a compilation of revised versions of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany.
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11Building on Frege: New Essays About Sense, Content and ConceptsCenter for the Study of Language and Inf. 2001.An outstanding philosopher-logician, Gottlob Frege's work has received much attention in recent years. In the pursuit of Frege's main goal to solidify the foundations of mathematics and scientific work, Frege conceived a comprehensive philosophy of language and developed the main thesis of logicism, that mathematics is reducible to logic. This book contains essays covering a large range of issues related to Frege that will be of great interest to philosophers working on these issues. This volume…Read more
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10Good things come in threes: Communicative acts comprise linguistic, imagistic, and modifying componentsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 2017.
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8Logische Analyse und der philosophische Begriff der Aufklärung. Progammatische BemerkungenHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1 (1): 21-29. 1998.
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7How to Fix the Reference of 'that' in Demonstrative UtterancesIn Ulla Wessels & Georg Meggle (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, De Gruyter. pp. 493-508. 1994.
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4Genetischer Determinismus, Genegoismus und die Autonomie der menschlichen PersonIn Ludger Honnefelder, Dietmar Mieth, Peter Propping, Ludwig Siep, Claudia Wiesemann, Dirk Lanzerath, Rimas Cuplinskas & Rudolf Teuwsen (eds.), Das genetische Wissen und die Zukunft des Menschen, De Gruyter. pp. 38-46. 2003.