Course Schedule
Veranstaltungen von Moritz Bammel
Lehrveranstaltungen
Introduction to Embodied Cognitive Science (FSL) (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Moritz Bammel
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 16:15 - 17:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.013 Seminarraum
Inhalt: In this course, students will learn about E-approaches (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive, ecological) to mind and cognition. A key assumption of E-approaches is that those processes supporting cognitive abilities like communicating, reasoning, memorizing, decision making, or our conscious experience of the world and others, do not reduce to brain activity. Instead, it is assumed that bodily processes beyond the brain and humans’ interactions with the environment play a crucial role in cognizing. The locus of inquiry in the cognitive sciences thus enlarges to studying embodied human organisms, including but not limited to their brains, who are necessarily situated in a socio-cultural-material environment. The seminar will be based on close readings of texts from theoretical psychology and philosophy of mind and cognition. Taking the computational theory of mind as a starting point, which can be regarded as the default view in the cognitive sciences, we will gradually move toward more embodied and ecological conceptions of cognition. For the most part of the seminar, we will focus on two major theoretical strands from the E-approaches, ecological psychology and enactivism. Throughout the course, we will also touch upon ramifications of E-approaches for questions of human identity as well as ethical considerations. Students participating in the course are expected to thoroughly engage with the weekly reading materials, to work on reading assignments, and to write a term paper (single or co-authored). To get a feeling for the topics discussed in the course, prospective participants are invited to take a look at two recent introductory textbooks to ecological psychology and enactivism, respectively: • Segundo-Ortin, M. & Raja, V. (2024). Ecological Psychology. Cambridge University Press. • Gallagher, S. (2023). Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
Inferential Statistics II - Group A (Übung)
Dozent/in: Moritz Bammel
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 11.319 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Quantitative methods covered in the lecture will be repeated in the seminar and practically applied by means of exercises. For independent consolidation of the methods, the students work on a weekly assignment sheet, which is handed in to the tutor. The practical exercises are done with the free open source software R (http://www.r-project.org/).
Inferential Statistics II (Vorlesung)
Dozent/in: Moritz Bammel, Monika Tschense, Sebastian Wallot
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 14.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C HS 4
Inhalt: Quantitative methods covered in the lecture will be repeated in the seminar and practically applied by means of exercises. For independent consolidation of the methods, the students work on a weekly assignment sheet, which is handed in to the tutor. The practical exercises are done with the free open source software R (http://www.r-project.org/).