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Bachelor and Master Theses
Bachelor Theses
Theses completed (selected)
| Vincent Höckendorf | On the Influence of German-Speaking Émigrés on the Emergence of Cognitive Science as a New Interdisciplinary Field | |
| Bent Freiwald | Sprache und Politik: Kognitionswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über den Einfluss politischer Sprachbilder auf die politische Willensbildung des Rezipienten am Beispiel der Alternative für Deutschland | |
| Elena Doering | Artificial Autonomy: A Comparison of Autonomy in Humans and AI | |
| Sina Lührmann | Singer and Frey über moralische Aspekte von Tierversuchen | |
| Corinna Kühnapfel | Neuroaesthetics: Prospects and Limitations of an Emerging Field | 2017 |
| Malin Melisa Moik | Free will, conformity and punishment: Disbelief in free will and its effects on retributive punishment and conformity | 2017 |
| Ulrike Lauff | Philosophical Aspects of Libertarian Paternalism in the Context of Health Insurance Issues | 2016 |
| Jean-Philipp Almstedt | Superintelligence and the Importance of Friendly AI | 2016 |
| Anna Gojowsky | Monetization of User Data - Psychological Methods Used for Analyzing Facebook Consumer Behavior | 2016 |
| Jacqueline Podsigun | Projekt Selbstgestaltung - Personale Autonomie im Kontext pharmazeutischen Neuro-Enhancements | 2016 |
| Tim Eggert | Determining the degree of extension in the Extended Mind debate: fruitful discussion or everlasting stalemate? | 2016 |
| Regina Gerber, geb. Funk | A Critical Analysis of Sidney I. Blatt's Theory of Depression | 2016 |
| Nicole Knodel | Neuroaesthetics: Aesthetic Experiences and the Brain | 2016 |
| Delia Hollweg | Manipulation on the Internet: The Concept of Balkanization | 2016 |
| Lisa Zick | Derk Pereboom: Optimistic conclusions about Free Will Skepticism | 2015 |
| Dominik Raabe | Game Analysis in High Professional Soccer – Vertical Passes into the Offensive Third as a Predictor for Space Control and Game Success | 2015 |
| Nicolai Wolpert | The narrative and the experiential concept of the self and their implications for Cognitive Science | 2015 |
| Marie Kristin Ingeborg Gerda Messow | On the Adequacy of Emotions | 2015 |
| Lars Stablo | Terme für natürliche Arten: Überlegungen zu Duprés promiskem Realismus | 2015 |
| Felix Herzberg | Aspects of Enactivism in the Philosophy of Mind | 2015 |
| Lasse Bergmann | The Exclusion Argument in the Context of Interventionism | 2015 |
| Valentin Kotov | A Review of Selected Positions and Arguments Regarding the Relation between Privacy and Autonomy | 2015 |
| Victoria Amo-Olea | WiseStudent: Integrating Artificial intelligence into Mobile Applications for supporting human well-being | 2015 |
| Raphael Kauffmann | Empathy and Morality - Aspects of a controversial relation | 2015 |
| Hannah Jacobs | Correlations between metaethical objectivism and personality | 2014 |
| Tobias Pollak | Scarantinos motivationale Theorie der Emotionen - Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme | 2014 |
| Christoph Niemeyer | Improving Decisions: A Review of Literature on Prevention and Mitigation of Cognitive Biases | 2014 |
| Lukas Pfeiffer | Aspects of the Problem of Demandingness in Moral Theory | 2014 |
| Lukas Ballon | Cognitive Theories on the Evolution of Religion | 2013 |
| Elvira Bauer | On the Nature of Psychopathy | 2013 |
| Armin Egger | Dreyfuss, McDowell and the Nature of Coping | 2013 |
| Jan Lipovsek | Ist der Mensch von Natur aus kooperativ? Vergleichende Studien an Schimpansen und Kleinkindern | 2013 |
| Mathias Brandner | Singer & Roth vs. Falkenburg - Determinismus und das Erklärungsvermögen der Neurowissenschaften | 2013 |
| Alexander Bretin | The evolutionary shaping of human moral capacity and its consequences for the existance of moral facts | 2013 |
| Elena Margonis | Emotional Alienation Based on the Example of the Capgras Delusion | 2013 |
| Hendrik Schulte | The Problem of Mental Causation - Can Fred Dretske, Jaegwon Kim or Frank Jackson/Philipp Pettit provide a solution to the problem? | 2013 |
| Stephan Sahm | Conscious and Unconscious Mental States in the Context of Cognitive Phenomenology | 2013 |
| Anna Catarina Spangehl | LSD-25 Potential in Psychotherapy and Research | 2013 |
| Elisabeth Mühlfehld | The therapeutic value of mindfulness meditation and psilocybin for the treatment of terminal-illness anxiety | 2013 |
| Alexander Neumann | An evolutionary hypothesis of depression based on the cytokine hypothesis of depression: Review and comparison of other evolutionary hypotheses | 2012 |
| Tobias Fiebig | Ethical Implications of Remote Forensic Software in the Context of the Extended Mind Theory | 2012 |
| Ngan-Tram Ho Dac | Empathy - A Dialogue Between Neuroscience, Psychology, and Phenomenology | 2012 |
| Jirka Lewandowski | The value of fiction in cognitive science | 2012 |
| Marvin Müthing | Teaching Thinking - A Comparison of Different Approaches | 2012 |
| Oliver Holtz | Subject-Object Dualism in John Dewey's Theory of Knowledge | 2012 |
| Luca Pogoda | Relevante Faktoren für die Ausbildung einer Theorie des Geistes bei Menschen | 2012 |
| Lena Tiedemann | Willensfreiheit: Neurowissenschaftliche Experimente und ihre philosophischen Bedeutungen | 2012 |
| Jonas Klein | Horizontal Perceptual Experience and Cognitive Science - Husserl's Phenomenological Concept of Horizon for Accounts of Perceptual Experience in Cognitive Science | 2011 |
| Laura Schmitz | Understanding How We Understand: Theory, Simulation, or Direct Perception in Interaction? | 2011 |
| Kristina Wiebels | Assessing Emotional Processes in Animals | 2011 |
| Leonie Teigler | Change Your Mind - A philosophical explanation for the absence of healing in the pharmaceutical treatment of depression | 2011 |
| Marina Winkler | Moral Responsibility and the Dynamics of Human Aggression in the Criminal Culpability Debate | 2011 |
| Nicole Troxler | Theory of Mind in Chimpanzees - An overview of the recent debate | 2011 |
| Anna-Lena Lumma | Illuminating Depression: Contrasting the concept of hedonia with the concept of anhedonia by focussing on current scientific findings | 2010 |
| Niclas Braun | Grundannahmen und gesellschaftlich philosophische Implikationen des Neuromarketings - Ein kritischer Ansatz | 2010
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| Lena Kästner | What is Cognition? | 2009 |
| Amadeus Magrabi | Self-Control in the Free Will Debate. The Implications of Empirical Studies | SS 2009 |
| Timon Merlin Miguel Bittlinger | Das kriminelle Gehirn. Eine kritische Analyse der Biologie kriminellen Verhaltens und deren mediale Darstellung | SS 2009 |
| Lukas Ebensperger | Die Verwissenschaftlichung der menschlichen Selbstauslegung durch die Technik | SS 2009 |
| Laura Moisi | The Science of Depression. Sketch of a non-reductive, multi-level approach | SS 2009 |
| Wendy Wilutzky | Intentions in Actions | SS 2008 |
| Henry Harper | Possible Functions of the Mirror Neuron System in Imitation and Autism: A Review | WS 2007 |
| Dirk Eichhorn | The scaffolded mind. An analysis of the role of external structures in Andy Clark’s philosophy of cognition | SS 2007 |
| Katharina Koch | Ist Sprachfähigkeit ein Kriterium, um Tieren Rationalität und Denken zuzuschreiben? | SS 2007 |
| Mathias Winnicki | Early Understanding of Intentional Action in Young Children | SS 2007 |
| Asena Paskaleva | Theory of Mind and Language Impairments in Autism | SS 2007 |
| Fabian Stelzer | Die Hedonische Rationalität der Emotionen | SS 2007 |
| Sylvia Wrzosek | A View on the Qualia Debate | SS 2007 |
| Claudia Thiessen | An Analysis of José Luis Bermudez’s Approach to the Development of Self-Consciousness | SS 2006 |
| Matti Samuli Gärtner | Perspectives on the Integration of Acupuncture into Western Medical Science | SS 2006 |
| Torsten Dierkes | Emotionen als Urteile und gefühlte Wertungen – Ein konstruktiv kritischer Versuch über Robert S. Solomons Urteilstheorie der Emotionen | SS 2006 |
| Jean Moritz Müller | The Representational Content and the Epistemology of Emotional Experience | SS 2006 |
| Radek Cichy | The Dennettian Concept of Intentionality: Past and Present (pdf) | SS 2004 |
| Jan Scholz | Emergence in Cognitive Science: Clark’s Four Proposals to the Emergentists (pdf) | SS 2004 |
| Roland Thomaschke | Robert Cummins’ Kritik an der kausalen Theorie mentaler Repräsentation am Beispiel der Lernbarkeit von LOT-Termen (pdf) | WS 2003 |
| Manuel Boeck | Cognitive tools in philosophy and practice | WS 2003 |
| Samuel Schindler | Radikal konstruiert? Die erkenntnistheoretische Position des Radikalen Konstruktivismus: Ideen, Kritik und ihr Bezug zur Kognitionswissenschaft | SS 2003 |
| Saskia Nagel | Embodied Dynamical Representationalism – Representations in Cognitive Science (pdf) | SS 2003 |
| Frank Freyer | Funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie – eine wissenschaftsphilosophische Untersuchung (pdf) | WS 2002 |
| Frank Schumann | Embodied cognitive science: is it part of cognitive science? Analysis within a philosophy of science background (pdf) | WS 2002 |
| Nicolas Neubauer | Emergence in a Multiagent Simulation of Communicative Behavior (pdf) | WS 2002 |
Master Theses
Theses completed (selected)
| Lasse T. Bergmann | Autonomous Driving and Public Acceptance: A Philosophical Analysis of Autonomous Driving and an Experimental Approach to the Problem of Moral Decision-Making | 2017 |
| Dominik Leroy Harkness | The Bayesian Brain - The What, the How and the Where | 2017 |
| Atik Jameshan | The Interactive Constitution of Society and Cognition: How Endorsing Enactivism Can Explain the Societal | 2017 |
| Frank Polenz | Schaden und Nutzen der Lüge | 2017 |
| Alexandra Pritzkau | Envisioning a Phenomenological Psychopathology: A Comparative Examination of Biomedical Psychiatry and Clinically Relevant Insights Gained from a Phenomenological Analysis of Depression | 2017 |
| Wjatscheslaw Loev | Intuitions about Intuition: A Review of Intuition Concepts in Science and Everyday Life | 2016 |
| Petar Dimkov | A Philosophical Study of Freudian Primary and Secondary Thought Processes: Parallels of Acute Schizophrenic | 2015 |
| Armin Egger | Das Bild des Denkens | 2015 |
| Charles Lowe | Becoming a new kind of person: An exegetical reading of Hacking's 'making up people' | 2015 |
| Stephan Sahm | Objective Subjects - an attempt to understand ourselves as persisting conscious beings | 2015 |
| Sahon Bhattacharyya | Man and Mind: An Existential Critique of the Cognitive Sciences | 2015 |
| Héctor Andrés Sánchez Guerrero | Emotional bedingtes Handeln und personale Bestimmung: Über die Denkbarkeit freier unreflektierter emotional bedingter Handlungen | 2014 |
| Jonas Klein | John McDowell's Relaxed Naturalism. The Possibility of Scientific Practices in McDowell's Philosophy | 2014 |
| Imke Biermann | Affektivität, Bedeutsamkeit und Normativität | 2014 |
| Nicole Troxler | Intersubjectivity in early mother-child interaction: - A comparison between humans and chimpanzees | 2014 |
| Alexander Niedrig | Presentational & Representational Processing in Cognitive Science: Differences and Commonalities between Computationalism and Situated Cognition | 2013 |
| Laura Schmitz | Improvement of Joint Action Coordination through Strategic Reduction of Temporal Variability | 2013 |
| Bret Cohen | Ruth Millikan on Representation of Sameness and Substance | 2013 |
| Gunnar Stiller | Über Disziplinarität und Interdisziplinarität der Kognitionswissenschaft(en) | 2012 |
| Andres Kurismaa | Polarization Models of Mind and Brain in the Biosemiotics of Friedrich S. Rothschild | |
| Rafaela Paz Wahl Herrera | Neuro-Education: A Reality Check Analysing Neuroscientific Approaches Applied to Educational Models | 2012 |
| Asena Paskaleva | A Phenomenological Assessment of Depression Narratives | 2011 |
| Yin-Yue Lo | Inevitability of Stereotype: Stereotype as Acceptance in the Perspectives of the Social Identity Theory and the Self-Categorization Theory | 2010 |
| Kirsten Brukamp | Nature of Mind: Contemporary approaches to naturalize mental processes | 2010 |
| Clemens Bauer | Representational Approaches to Consciousness. Addendum inanis et nihilum | SS 2007 |
| Albert Casalprim | Philosophical Considerations: The Relation of Mental States with Language | SS 2007 |
| Jan Plate | Physicalism and Subjectivity | SS 2005 |
