Dr. Sofiia Rappe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Philosophy II
Ruhr University of Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
Room GA 04/46
44780 Bochum, Germany
Phone number:+49 234-32-24682
Email: sofiia.rappe(at)ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Office hours: by appointment
BIOGRAPHY
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum. My philosophical work focuses on the realitionship between thought, langauge, and perception and is informed by empirical research in linguistics, psychology, computer-, and neuroscience.
I defended my PhD in Neurophilosophy in 2022 at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN) at LMU Munich. My dissertation investigated the relationship between our conscious states and cognitive processes from the perspective of predictive processing. Previously, I also received an MSc degree in Mind, Language & Embodied Cognition from the University of Edinburgh and a (Hons) BSc in linguistics and mathematics from the University of Toronto.
Personal website: sofiia-rappe.com
UPCOMING TALKS
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PUBLICATIONS
- Rappe, S. (2024). The ever-expanding predictive mind. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2324053.
- Rappe, S. & Werning, M.(2024). The role of episodic memory in causal reasoning with counterfactuals: A perspective from predictive processing and trace minimalism. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t2m5u.
- Rappe, S. & Wilkinson, S. (2023). Counterfactual cognition and psychosis: Adding complexity to predictive processing accounts. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2054789.
- Deroy, O & Rappe, S (2022). The clear and not so clear signatures of perceptual reality in the Bayesian brain. Consciousness and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103379.
- Rappe, S. (2022). Predictive minds can think: Addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought. Synthesis, 200(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03502-7.
- Rappe, S. (2019). Now, Never, or Coming Soon? Prediction and Efficient Language Processing. Pragmatics & Cognition, 26 (2-3), 357-385. https://doi-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/10.1075/pc.19001.rap.
