What are Mental Representations?
Edited by Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, and Tobias Schlicht
Author Information
Edited by Joulia Smortchkova, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford, Edited by Krzysztof Dołęga, Postdoctoral researcher, Ruhr University, Bochum, and Edited by Tobias Schlicht, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr University, Bochum
Joulia Smortchkova is a philosopher of cognitive science, working at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow. She completed her PhD at the Jean Nicod Institute with a thesis on the social contents of perception. She works on social cognition, metacognition, mental representations, types of explanation and natural kinds in psychology. Krzysztof Dołęga is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he previously completed his PhD under the supervision of Tobias Schlicht and Daniel Dennett. His research interests cluster around topics such as consciousness, mental representation, computational explanation, and models of explanation more generally. Tobias Schlicht is Professor of Philosophy at the Ruhr-Universit¨Bochum with an interdisciplinary interest in consciousness and cognition. He wrote two books on the mind-body problem and social cognition and published numerous papers on consciousness, cognition and the foundations of
cognitive science.
Contributors:
Krystyna Bielecka, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Krzysztof Dołęga, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Frances Egan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Daniel D. Hutto, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong
Marcin Miłkowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Michael Murez, Centre Atlantique de Philosophie, University of Nantes
Erik Myin, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
Albert Newen, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Nico Orlandi, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Gualtiero Piccinini, Department of Philosophy and Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri, St. Louis
William Ramsey, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michael Rescorla, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Tobias Schlicht, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Nicholas Shea, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Joulia Smortchkova, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Gottfried Vosgerau, Department of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
