Prof. Dr. Markus Werning
Chair of Philosophy
of Language & Cognition
Department of Philosophy
Room GA 04/43
Ruhr University Bochum
44780 Bochum
Email:
Phone: 0234-32-24734
Fax: 0234-32-14463
Administration:
Christiane Dahl, MA
Email:
Phone: 0234-32-26739, Room GA 04/42
Student office hours during the semester break:
Thursday, 10 Sept. 2026, 15:15-16:00;
in person (no registration necessary) or via Zoom (only by prior registration, for the Zoom link klick here.)
My agenda is deeply rooted in a naturalistic understanding of philosophy. The overarching goal of my research is to approach questions in the philosophy of language and cognition and related areas with exact theoretical and advanced empirical methods. I view these areas of philosophy in continuity with the cognitive sciences where, in philosophy, emphasis is put on theoretical rigor as well as meta- and cross-disciplinary aspects. Amongst the theoretical method, in my group, we focus on computational modelling, large language models, Bayesian pragmatics, and formal semantics. Our empirical methods include EEG and fMRI.
News & Upcoming Events
- Out now:
- Our research project "The evaluation of empathy related linguistic performance in large language models: Comparing surprisal values for next-word prediction in human EEG and LLMs" in the DFG Priority Area LaSTing - Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modeling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology - has just started. Find out more here.
- The bi-weekly Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium (Zoom/hybrid) will continue in the winter semester 2026. The prospective and previous programs are available here.
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
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