Vivian Bohl
University of Tartu
Visit(s): 
October 2014 - June 2015
Vivian Bohl is a Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Tartu (Estonia). In 2014 she defended her PhD-thesis on social cognition ("How do we understand others? Beyond theories of mindreading and interactionism." University of Tartu Press, 2014). Her further research interests encompass philosophy of mind, cognitive science and phenomenology. During her stay at the Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution in Bochum she is hosted by Prof. Tobias Schlicht (Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum). Selected publications: - We read minds to shape relationships. In: Philosophical Psychology (online), 2014. - (with Nivedita Gangopadhyay): Theory of mind and the unobservability of other minds. In: Philosophical Explorations 17 (2014), 203-222. - (with Wouter van den Bos): Toward an integrative account of social cognition: Marrying theory of mind and interactionism to study the interplay of Type 1 and Type 2 processes. In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (online), 2012.