Assistant Researcher / lecturer, Theoretical Philosophy Group
Contact Details
E-Mail: wawieseatuni-mainz.de
Postal Address
Philosophisches Seminar
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
D-55099 Mainz
Proseminar
- (PS) Intentionalität und mentale Repräsentation. Eine Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes (Dr. Wanja Wiese)
Seminar
- (OS) Mechanistische Theorien (des Geistes): von Hume und Herbart zur New Mechanical Philosophy (Dr. Wanja Wiese)
- (OS) Philosophie der KI-Forschung (Dr. Wanja Wiese)
Semester: SoSe 2019
Areas of Specialization
- Philosophy of mind, especially: phenomenal consciousness and mental representation.
- Philosophy of cognitive science, especially: cognitive underpinnings of knowledge and action, philosophical implications of predictive processing.
- Value theory, especially: valences of conscious experiences, conflicts between instrumental and epistemic values.
Projects and Activities
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New open-access journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci).
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Wiese, W. (2018). Experienced Wholeness. Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Together with Jennifer Windt and Sascha Fink: Research Topic "Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of a Science of Consciousness and the Self", Frontiers in Psychology.
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Together with Thomas Metzinger, Jennifer Windt, Raphaël Millière and Sascha Fink: Workshop & open-access special issue on Radical Disruptions of Self-Consciousness, October 5-7 2018 at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. CFP
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Manager and web admin of the MIND Group.
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