Marion Ledwig
University of Konstanz, Germany
Academic Year 2001-02
Backwards Causation and Theories of Causation

July 2007
Books:
Ledwig, M., Common Sense: its History, Method, and Applicability, Peter Lang, New York (2007).
Ledwig, M., Emotions: their Rationality and Consistency, Peter Lang, New York (2006).

Articles:
Ledwig, M., "Folk Psychology and Proverb Knowledge as Common Knowledge in Decision-Making", in C. Kanzian and E. Runggaldier (eds.), Cultures: Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue, Ontos, Frankfurt (2007), 193-200.
Ledwig, M., "Common Knowledge in Game Theory", The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management 6 (2006) 43-48.
Ledwig, M., "Comments on Rindermann's 'Forms of Scientific Discussion'", Erwaegen - Wissen - Ethik 17 (2006) 287-289.

Reviews:
Ledwig, M., Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot by J.-M. Fellous and M. A. Arbib (eds.), Oxford University Press, New York (2005) in Philosophical Psychology (forthcoming).
Ledwig, M., Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts by A.
Broadie, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (2005) in Theoria 72 (2006) 248-252.

Presentations:
"Decision Theory and Pascal's Wager", The 4th International Conference: Human Being in Contemporary Philosophical Conceptions, Volgograd State University (speaker, chair, and moderator of the round table "Human Being and Philosophy of Diversity"), 05/28-05/31/2007.
"Rational Emotional Responses to Art", Conference "Rationality in Drama and Fiction", University College London (invited speaker), 05/04/2007.
"Are Emotions Rational?", University Forum Lecture Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 04/27/2007.
"Rational Emotional Responses to Art", 19th Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular and American Culture Associations, Las Vegas (speaker and chairperson), 01/27/2007.
"In the Mood", University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Philosophy, 12/08/2006.
"The Undecidability of Pascal's Wager", Phi Sigma Tau, University of Nevada , Las Vegas, 10/04/2006
"Comments on Pouivet's Paper 'Thomas Reid on Testimony and Virtue Epistemology'", Conference "Reid and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind" at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (commentator, chair, and organizer), 08/19-08/20/2006
"Folk Psychology and Proverb Knowledge as Common Knowledge in Decision-Making", 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg at Wechsel (invited speaker and chair), 8/06-8/12/2006
"Common Knowledge in Game Theory", The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, 07/11-07/14/2006.
"Emotional Consistency, Conflict, and the Stockholm Syndrome", Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, 06/07/2006
"Moods", Filstokk 2006, Filosofiska Föreningen, Stockholm University, Sweden, 06/02/-06/03/2006
"How One Should Understand a Dead Philosopher: Experimental Psychology Applied to the History of Philosophy", British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference on Philosophy and Historiography, Robinson College, Cambridge, 04/03-04/05/2006
"Emotions, AI, and Consciousness", Workshop on "Emotions and Self-awareness", Stockholm University, Sweden, 03/09-03/10/2006
"The Rationality of the Emotions", Rhodes University, South Africa, The Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 01/16/-01/18/2006

Grants:
Travel stipend from the Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation for a presentation at Cambridge University on the 04/04/2006 Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy, 07/01/-08/20/2007

Service to the profession:
Organization of the conference "Reid and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind" at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (speakers included K. Lehrer, J. van Cleve, M.A. Stewart, R. Copenhaver, and others); the conference was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Royal Institute of Technology, 08/19-08/20/2006

June 2008
Monographs 

• God's Rational Warriors: The Rationality of Faith Considered , Ontos, Frankfurt (2008).

Articles

"On Errors, Mistakes, Slips, and Fallacies", Erwaegen - Wissen - Ethik (forthcoming).

"Ang Lee", in F. Campbell (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Asian American Popular Culture, Greenwood Press, Westport (forthcoming).

"The Wedding Banquet", in F. Campbell (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Asian American Popular Culture, Greenwood Press, Westport (forthcoming).

"Pushing Hands", in F. Campbell (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Asian American Popular Culture, Greenwood Press, Westport (forthcoming).

"To Understand the Understanding - das Verstehen zu Verstehen: A Discussion of Harman's Explanatory Gap", APA Newsletter 7  (Fall 2007), 16-18.

Reviews

• Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues by A. Vingerhoets, I. Nyklíček, and J. Denollet (eds.) Springer, New York, in Metapsychology 12 (2008).

• Vagueness in Context by S. Shapiro, Clarendon Press, Oxford (2006) in Philosophy in Review 28 (2008) 163-165.

• The God Delusion by R. Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York (2006) in Religious Studies 43 (2007) 368-372.

Presentations

1. "Emotional Consistency, Conflict, and the Stockholm Syndrome", James Madison University, Department of Philosophy and Religion, 04/03/2008.

2. "Comments on Northcott's Paper 'Apportioning Explanatory Responsibility'", American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena, 03/18/-03/23/2008.

3. "Repression in Ang Lee's Movies", 20th Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular and American Culture Associations, Las Vegas (speaker and chairperson), 01/26/2008.

4. "Emotional Consistency, Conflict, and the Stockholm Syndrome", University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, 10/26/2007.

5. "The Undecidability of Pascal's Wager", Creighton University, Department of Philosophy (invited speaker), 10/04/2007.

 

May 2011

Monographs:

- Nameless Simon, Xinxii (2011).(This is a fantasy novel.)

- Mixed Feelings: Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness, Ontos, Frankfurt (2009).(This is a philosophy book.)

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