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Author |
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| Name | Hohwy, Jakob |
| Research field | Philosophy |
| Career stage | professor |
| Home university/institution | Monash University |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | - |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | - |
International activity |
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| Country | Germany |
| Location | Bochum |
| University | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Fund Research School | VIP |
| Type of activity | research stay |
| Period |
starts 01-01-2016 ends 31-12-2018 |
| Keywords | - |
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Project Prof. Hohwy is a leading academic in the field of Bayesian cognitive science, as well as an excellent researcher in the Philosophy of mind. Over the last few years his work, which currently spans over more than fifty peer-reviewed papers and culminates in his 2013 OUP book, has become increasingly popular and thoroughly discussed. Prof. Hohwy conducts interdisciplinary research in the areas of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In his Cognition & Philosophy lab in the philosophy department at Monash University he conducts experiments on the nature of perception and cognition. He collaborates with a number of neuroscientists and psychologists from Monash University and around the world. He works on general theories about brain function, which say the brain is primarily a sophisticated hypothesis tester. He is Deputy Editor of the new open access journal Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press) along with Deputy Editor Biyu Jade He, and Editor-in-Chief Anil Seth. The co-cooperation between Jacob Hohwy and researchers from the Institut für Philosophie II (Ruhr-Universität), especially hosted by Prof. Albert Newen and Francesco Marchi, provided through the VIP-Grant of the Research School is aimed at developing two strands of research in particular. The first strand concerns his Bayesian model of attention as optimization of expected precisions for incoming signals. It is examined how this account of attention relates to available theories of attention and whether it allows for a clarification of the nature and the implications of the interactions between perception and cognition that are mediated by attention. The second strand concerns Prof. Hohwy’s current project of developing an account of consciousness. Prof. Hohwy’s visit allowed a further inquiry into the problems of how action relates to consciousness and what is the role of higher-level cognition in the process. Previous Projects March 23rd-24th, 2015 Workshop “Cognitive Penetration and Predictive Coding” The workshop, organised at the RUB by Francesco Marchi, Prof. Albert Newen, and Dr. Peter Brössel, brought together leading researchers in the fields of perception, perceptual-cognitive interactions and predictive coding. The aim was to assess the commitments of the new Predictive Coding framework about distinctions between perception and cognition and their interactions. The workshop was followed by an outstanding special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Consciousness and Cognition, edited by the organisers. March 3rd-4th, 2017 Master Class in Philosophy: Three Lectures by Prof. Dr. Jakob Hohwy Prediction error minimization in perception, attention and action: Inference, hierarchy and precision. This lecture explains the basic elements of the prediction error minimization framework and shows how it is proposed to work for perception, for allocation of attention, and for action. The lecture sets out basic notions of inference in terms of approximate Bayes, it looks at the key role of the perceptual hierarchy, and of precisions of prediction errors. Prediction error minimization in neuroscience: rubber hand illusion, frequency tagging, and other experiments. This lecture discusses the important task of getting evidence for the prediction error minimization framework. The lecture delves into a couple of experiments that offer support for the framework, and discusses how we approach this task in the Cognition & Philosophy lab at Monash. The talk also briefly opens up some philosophy of science debates about the status of the framework. Prediction error minimization and the self: Why should any body have a self? This lecture seeks to showcase the interesting scope of the prediction error minimization framework. In particular, the argument is that a robust, realist notion of self can arise as a natural consequence of the framework. The talk considers developmental aspects of this theory of the self, and looks at the possibility of illusions of the self. March 6th-10th, 2017 Spring School 2017 – Social Cognition, Emotion and Joint Action "How to entrain your evil demon: self-evidencing, scepticism, and coupling for the predictive mind" |