Welcome at the Chair of Philosophy of Language and Cognition
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Werning
Department of Philosophy
Ruhr University of Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
Room GA 04/43
44780 Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)234-32-24734
Fax: +49-(0)234-32-14463
Secretary: +49(0)234-32-26739
Email: markus.werning@rub.de
Office hours (lecture period): Tuesdays, 15:15-16:00.
News
Investigating Semantics: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches
The call for papers for InSEMP2013 (Bochum, 10th-12th October 2013) is now open. Organization: Erica Cosentino, Dirk Kindermann, Max Kölbel, Maria Spychalska, and Markus Werning.
Special issue of the Journal of Semantics
The special issue edited by Christian , and Markus Semantic Contributions to a Theory of Concepts. Date of Appearance: 1 November 2012.
Semantics and Philosphy in Europe 6
The call for papers for SPE6 (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 10-14, 2013) is now open. Organization: Berit Brogaard, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Wolfram Hinzen, Robert Matthews, Robert May, Friederike Moltmann, Natalia Slioussar, Markus Werning, and Ede Zimmermann.
CV and Publications
Selected Journal Articles
Philosophy of Mind and Language/Philosophy of Linguistics
, C., , S., & , M. (2012). Semantic Contributions to a Theory of Concepts - Preface. Journal of Semantics, 29(4), 439-43. [doi]
Werning, M. (2010). Complex first? On the evolutionary and developmental priority of semantically thick words. Philosophy of Science, 77, 1096–1108. [local]
Werning, M. (2010). Descartes discarded? Introspective self-awareness and the problems of transparency and compositionality. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(3), 751–61. [doi, local]
Werning, M. (2008). The complex first paradox why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns? Interaction Studies, 9(1), 67–83. [doi, local]
Werning, M. (2005). The temporal dimension of thought: Cortical foundations of predicative representation. Synthese, 146(1/2), 203-24. [doi, local]
Werning, M. (2004).Compositionaltity, context, categories and the indeterminacy of translation. Erkenntnis, 60, 145–78. [doi, local]
Epistemology
Werning, M. (2009). The evolutionary and social preference for knowledge: How to solve Menon’s problem within reliabilism. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 79, 137-56. [doi, local]
Neurophilosophy/Theoretical Neuroscience
Cheng, S. & Werning, M. (2013, accepted). Composition and Replay of Mnemonic Sequences: The Contributions of REM and Slow-wave Sleep to Episodic Memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Mroczko-Wąsowicz, A. & Werning, M. (2012). Synesthesia, sensory-motor contingency and semantic emulation: How swimming style-color synesthesia challenges the traditional view of synesthesia. Fontiers in Psychology, 3(279). [doi]
Abraham, A., Rakoczy, H., Werning, M., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2010). Matching mind to world and vice versa: Functional dissociations between belief and desire mental´state processing. Social Neuroscience, 5, 1-18. [doi]
Abraham, A., Werning, M., Rakoczy, H., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2008). Minds, persons, and space: An fMRI investigation into the relational complexity of higher-order intentionality. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 438–50. [doi, local]
Maye, A., & Werning, M. (2004).Temporal binding of non-uniform objects. Neurocomputing, 58–60, 941–8. [doi, local]
Werning, M. (2003). Ventral vs. dorsal pathway: the source of the semantic object/event and the syntactic noun/verb distinction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 299–300. [doi, local]
