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Situated Affectivity: From Individuals' Emotions to Collective Harm
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Course Description
As human beings, we have both cognitive and affective skills. We store, retrieve and process information provided by our perceptual organs in order to react in (ideally) appropriate ways: We, for instance, interpret a moving spot on the retina with a certain size, shape and color together with a buzzing sound as an approaching insect and step back to avoid it. However, unlike a robot who has been trained to detect and avoid insects, we do not just react in a “detached” matter of “mere computation.” Our behavior is affectively toned: We not just cool-bloodedly react to our “cognitive” evaluation of something as dangerous, pleasant, repelling, friendly etc., but care about what is going on: We fear the insect might bite us, we are distressed by the thought that it might be poisonous, or disgusted by its hairy legs. Over the past decade or two, proponents of what has come to be called a “situated” approach to cognition and affectivity have pointed out that this is, albeit certainly true, only part of the story. Sometimes, our affective responses are indeed just reactions to environmental triggers elicited in us as quite passive observers, as when we are disgusted by the insect or feel cheerful when running across an old friend. Sometimes, however, we play a more active role, acting in rather than merely reacting to our environment: We feel sad or alone, want to brighten our mood and therefore go and see an old friend, i.e., we actively structure the environment in such a way that we can use it as a resource that changes our affective life; we see that our partner feels disappointed, want to brighten their mood and therefore surprise them with a bouquet of their favorite flowers, i.e., we actively structure the environment in such a way that it shapes other’s affective life. This course is about the various ways in which structuring the environment can affect how people feel (and, as a consequence, behave). In particular, it will be concerned with different ways in which people’s affective life is negatively influenced by how others—from individuals to nations—have structured the environment, i.e., different facets of what Jan Slaby (2016) has called “mind invasion.”
Learning Objectives
Throughout the course, students will engage with classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of emotions and situated affectivity, develop critical thinking skills, gain fundamental knowledge in a key area of theoretical philosophy and apply philosophical insights to cognitive science research.
Prerequisites and Assessments
Students should have successfully completed the Philosophy of Cognitive Science lecture.
Weekly Reading Responses: 40%
Final Paper: 60%
Note: This syllabus is subject to change based on the progress of the course and the needs of the students. Any changes will be communicated promptly.
Weitere Angaben
Ort: 50/E07
Zeiten: Mo. 18:00 - 20:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Montag, 28.10.2024 18:00 - 20:00, Ort: 50/E07
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm
- Cognitive Science > Master-Programm
- Human Sciences (e.g. Cognitive Science, Psychology)
Past and Forthcoming Events
- Bernoulli-ims 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum, August 12-16, 2024
- Workshop on Stein's Method and Networks, Oxford, June 20-21, 2024
- Spatial Stochastics in High Dimensions, Osnabrück, May 2-3, 2024
- SPP2265-Meeting on Stochastic Geometry and Point Processes, Münster University, 15.11.2023
- DMV meeting 2023, TU Ilmenau, 25.-28.09.2023
- Workshop Random Graphs 2023, TU Dortmund, 04.-08.09.2023
- 43rd conference on Stochastic Processses and their Applications, in Lisbon, 24.-28.7.2023
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, Stochastic modelling of complex systems, The Univesity of Manchester, 27.-31.3.2023
- BOS Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Osnabrück, 22.-24.2.2023
- Stochastic Geometry Workshop, Osnabrück, 23-25.11.2022
- Workshop Recent Trends in Spatial Stochastic Processes, Eurandom Eindhoven, 03.-07.10.2022
- SPP Workshop Limit theorems for spatial random structures, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 07.09.-09-09.2022
- Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary, IMS Program Singapore, 13.06.–08.07.2022
- SPP Random Geometric Systems First Annual Conference, 11.04-14.04 2022
- Stochastiktage Mannheim, 27.09.-01.10.2021
- First Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society, 8-10 March 2021, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, 30 March to 3 April 2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Dresdener Stochastik-Tage 24. to 27.03.2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Final Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, September 30 to October 2nd, 2019
- SIAM in Bern, 07.2019
- Symposium in memory of Charles Stein [1920-2016]
- Women in probability, 31.05. to 01.06.2019
- Fourth Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, January 10 and 11, 2019
- Third Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, April 5 and 6, 2018
- Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, 30.11. to 02.12. 2017
- Second Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, June 26 and 27, 2017
- Opening Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, December 6 to 8, 2016
- Conference on Combinatorial Structures in Geometry
- Organisation of the workshop Algebraic and Stochastic Aspects of Graph Theory
- Talk at Junior Female Researchers in Probability in Berlin, October 22 and 23, 2015
- Talk at Satellite workshop Recent Trends in Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics at Univ. Hamburg, September 20 and 21, 2015
- Local Organisation of the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"
- Probabilistic and Geometric Facets of High Dimensions Organisation of the Mini-Workshop at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 9 and 10, 2014.
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014. Weitere Informationen
- Project "Mathematik be-greifen" in the Alfried Krupp-Schülerlabor at RUB, 2006-2013.
- Organisation of the IRTG Berlin-Zürich summer school "stochastic models of complex processes" and the Spring meeting Beijing/Bielefeld - Berlin/Zurich 2011
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2009. Weitere Informationen
Publications
- Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
- The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
- Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
- The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
- Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
- Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
- Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
- Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König - The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013 available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
- Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow - Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
with Andreas Shalchi - Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
with Andreas Shalchi