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
My office hours during the lecture period are Tuesdays, 15:00-16:00.
News
Call for Junior and Senior Fellowships 2012/2013
- Senior or Junior Fellowship in Neurophilosophy/Philosophy of Mind (one to six months)
- Senior or Junior Fellowship in Philosophy of Language or in Linguistics/Neurolinguistics (one to twelve months)
Senior Research Fellowship at ZiF Bielefeld
Markus Werning has assumed a Senior Research Fellowship at ZiF Bielefeld from 1 October 2011 - 31 July 2012.
Current Visiting Fellows
Prof. Dr. Christopher Gauker (U Cincinnati, 1 October - 30 November 2011)
Dr. Emar Maier (U Groningen, 1 October - 30 November 2011)
CV and Publications
Selected Journal Articles
Philosophy of Mind and Language/Philosophy of Linguistics
Werning, M. (2010). Complex first? On the evolutionary and developmental priority of semantically thick words. Philosophy of Science, 77, 1096–1108. [link]
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
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]
