Research Profile, Projects and Publications
PROFILE
Researchers at the Institute of Philosophy take a systematic and often interdisciplinary approach to studying a wide range of traditional and contemporary philosophical topics. We are currently working on the following questions:
- When and why is it appropriate to (not) forgive wrongs suffered and what role does elapsed time play in this context?
- What is the normative impact of asking for forgiveness on the appropriateness of forgiveness?
- What is 'good help': When and within what limits is help required and what characterizes a successful helping relationship?
- What is the moral wrong of sexual violation?
- What does it mean to duplicate brain structures?
- How do people come to 'hear voices'?
- What role does unconscious language processing play in literary creativity?
- Do we think in an inner language?
- Does language distinguish us from other animals (and machines)?
- What do we understand when we understand metaphors?
- To what extent and in what way are cognitive processes 'situated'?
- How do we form 'bad' beliefs and are we responsible for them?
- What is the role of the philosophical virtue of intellectual modesty in times of epistemic dysfunction?
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