Dr. Julia Wolf

Akademische Ausbildung

08/2017-10/2020          Dr. phil. in Philosophie; Ruhr University Bochum, DFG (German Research Foundation) Research Training Group “Situated Cognition”

09/2015 – 07/2017        BPhil in Philosophie; University of Oxford (Magdalen College)

10/2012 – 06/2015        BA in Psychologie und Philosophie; University of Oxford (Magdalen College)

Beruflicher Werdegang

Seit 11/2022                   Wissenschaftliche Mittarbeiterin, Postdoc, Ruhr Universität Bochum. DFG-Research-Training-Group ‘Situated Cognition’

11/2020-10/2022          Wissenschaftliche Mittarbeiterin, Postdoc, Ruhr Universität Bochum, DFG-Projekt: ‘The Structure and Development of Understanding Actions and Reasons’

03/2019-04/2019          Forschungsaufenthalt Cognitive Development Laboratory (Prof. Alan Leslie), Rutgers University

08/2017-10/2020          Doktorandin, Ruhr Universität Bochum. DFG-Research-Training-Group ‚Situated Cognition‘

Monographien
Wolf, J. (2021). The Paradox of False Belief Understanding: The Role of Cognitive and Situational Factors for the Development of Social Cognition. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758610

Artikel
Wolf, J. (2025). Learning Folk Psychology: Mindshaping and Mindreading in Ontogeny. In Zawizki, T. & Tison, R. (eds) Routlege Handbook of Mindshaping.

Wolf, J. (2024). Self-Other Perspectives and the Development of Perspective Understanding. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Wolf, J. (2023). Internal Inconsistency and Secondary Ideas: Hume’s Problem in the Appendix with His Account of Personal Identity. Hume Studies 48(2), 217-239. https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2023.a910743.

Wolf, J., Coninx, S. & Newen, A. (2023). Rethinking Integration of Epistemic Strategies in Social Understanding: Examining the Central Role of Mindreading in Pluralist Accounts. Erkenntnis, 88, 2967–2995. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00486-7

Wolf, J. (2022). Implications of Pretend Play for Theory of Mind Research. Synthese, 200, 523. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03984-5

Schlicht, T., Brandl, J.L., Esken, F., Glock, H., Newen, A., Perner, J., Poprawe, F., Schmidt, E., Strasser, A. & Wolf, J. (2021). Teleology first: Goals Before Knowledge and Belief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E169. https://doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001533

Wolf, J., & Coninx, S. (2021). The role of mindreading in a pluralist framework of social cognition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.

Ehli, S., Wolf, J. , Newen, A. Schneider, S. & Voigt, B. (2020). Determining the Function of Social Referencing: The Role of Familiarity and Situational Threat, Frontiers in Psychology, 11:538228. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.538228.

Newen, A. & Wolf, J. (2020) The Situational Mental File Account of the False Belief Tasks: A New Solution of the Paradox of False Belief Understanding, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11, 717–744 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00466-w (joint first authors)