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Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Neuroscience. My research primarily revolves around a quest for more adequate theoretical models of our psychological processes and the complex neurobiology that supports them. A core philosophical challenge lies in the tension between growing empirical evidence for the dynamic and contextual functioning of organisms and minds on the one hand, and our epistemological desires for atomistic and mechanistic models on the other. With collaborators within neuroscience we try to build new theories and methodologies as well as re-interpret old findings in new frames. I am also interested how these challenges of dynamic, social and relational models relate to broader questions in philosophy of science and biology, in feminist philosophy, in aesthetics and most recently in applied areas such as the field of autism research and developmental psychology.

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