Profile

Professional career

• 09/2010 - 09/2013
  LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method & Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy, London, UK
• 10/2013 - 08/2015
  Junior Professor of Neurophilosophy, Department of Philosophy, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• since 09/2015
  Professor of Cognitive Anthropology at Leipzig University
• since 01/2018
  Faculty member, International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
• 06/2014 - 06/2019
  Member of the “Young Academy” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Education

• 10/2000 - 09/2002
  Undergraduate degree in Human Biologie at the University of Marburg
• 10/2002 - 09/2006
  Graduate degrees in neurosciences and philosophy at the University of Magdeburg
• 01/2007 - 06/2011
  PhD in philosophy at the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
• 07/2007 - 01/2009
  Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, USA

My research interests are in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. In particular, I am interested in self-consciousness, social cognition, the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual forms of representation, the relation between personal and subpersonal level explanations, and the nature and origins of normativity. Part of my research consists in exploring what a developmental perspective on these and related topics can reveal. Moreover, I am curious about the relation between humans and non-human animals (both with respect to the cognitive abilities of non-human animals and with respect to animal ethics). My research is guided by the belief that there can be mutually beneficial relations between philosophy and empirical research.

• Musholt, K.

  The personal and the subpersonal in the theory of mind debate

  Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 2017. pp. 305–324.

  DOI: 10.1007/s11097-017-9504-4
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• Musholt, K.

  Thinking about oneself : from nonconceptual content to the concept of a self

  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2015.

  ISBN: 978-0-262-02920-9
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• Carruthers, G.; Musholt, K.

  Ipseity at the Intersection of Phenomenology, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Mind: Are we Talking about the Same Thing?

  Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 2018. pp. 689–701.

  DOI: 10.1007/s13164-018-0392-5
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• Musholt, K.; Berio, L.

  How language shapes our minds: On the relationship between generics, stereotypes and social norms

  Mind and Language. 2022.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12449
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• Musholt, K. (Ed.)

  Phenomenology and Explanation

  Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 2023. 22.
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more publications

• Institut für Philosophie

  Warwick-Geneva-Leipzig Interdepartmental collaboration

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/10/2022

  External participating organisations: University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom); Universität Genf (Genf, Switzerland)

  Involved persons: Musholt, Kristina; Kern, Andrea; Rödl, Sebastian
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• Institut für Philosophie

  Research Network on Human and Non-Human Normativity​

  Start Date of Collaboration: 30/09/2024

  Involved persons: Musholt, Kristina
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• Kognitive Anthropologie

  Virtual Research Network on the Development of Intellectual Humility

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/01/2021

  Ended on: 31/12/2022

  External participating organisations: John Templeton Foundation (United States)

  Involved persons: Musholt, Kristina; Baehr, Jason; Cimpian, Andrei; Danovitch, Judith; Davies, Donald; Harris, Paul; Keil, Frank; Porter, Tenelle; Ronfard, Samuel; Ruggeri, Azzura; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
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I teach both general introductions to philosophy of mind and ethics as well as graduate level courses to current topics in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, such as theories of the self, the problem of free will, moral psychology, theories of social cognition, animal cognition, embodied cognition, etc.

I am also teach the module "Childhood in Interdisciplinary Context" as part of the MA program in "Early Childhood Research".

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

• Philosophy of Childhood

• Social Epistemology

• The problem of free will

• Moral psychology

• Animal ethics

• Theories of self-consciousness and self-knowledge

• Metaethics

• Naturalism and Normativity

• Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

• Introduction to the philosophy of science

• Embodied Cognition