CFP: ESPP 2020

CFPs

The 28th annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology will take place in Leipzig, Germany from August 31 to September 3, 2020. Keynote speakers are Victoria McGeer, Dorit Bar-On, Vicky Southgate and Herbert Clark. The deadline for submissions is April 1. For further details see: https://www.espp2020.com

New M.Sc. in Early Childhood Research

Academia / Psychology

The M.Sc. in Early Childhood Research at Leipzig University (Germany) is a two-year Master’s program fully conducted in English. The program aims to enable highly qualified students to build up a career as a researcher as well as a scientific coordinator, consultant or advisor in the interdisciplinary field of early …

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Which Theory of Mind? – And other questions

animal cognition / Emotion / Folk Psychology / Kristina Musholt: Thinking about Oneself / Mindreading / Social Cognition

In my final post I would like to wrap up by sketching some of the implications of my proposal – in particular concerning our theorizing about social cognition – as well as raising some questions that are being left open. There exists quite a large controversy in philosophy and psychology …

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Self and Others

Kristina Musholt: Thinking about Oneself / Psychology / representation / Self-consciousness / Social Cognition

To provide a full account of the ability to think “I”-thoughts, we need an explanation of the transition from implicitly self-related information to explicit self-representation. In the previous post, I argued that world-directed action and perception do not require explicit self-representation. This raises the question of when explicit self-representation does …

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