of the Sciences and Humanities and "Art & Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow” at Columbia University (2013), and assistant professor at the University of Stuttgart (2013-2015). Joerg works in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He coordinates the research and activities of the Einstein group since 4/2015 with a personal focus in research on "Aesthetic Psychology" and "Embodied and Embellished Perception." Follow me on Academia.edu

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I work at the interface of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Generally, I am interested in embodied approaches to the mind and the role the active body plays in the unfolding of conscious mental events. Since my PhD I extended this focus to our interactions with the built environment, visual media and cultural artifacts more generally. I investigate how those interactions influence our body schema, alter our perceptual judgments, and constitute novel forms of embodied knowledge. This line of research is based on the idea that our mental processes and the neural processes underlying them are more dynamic, more context-dependent, and more malleable than previous approaches to the mind have acknowledged. 

Aesthetic experiences with and evaluations of everyday objects, artifacts, and artworks are a second interest of mine. The question is here: why do we value certain objects over others? Why do we find some of them beautiful and why do we engage with such strange objects as artworks? With the Einstein group I plan to conduct behavioral experiments in order to explore which elements we value in art and to assess our bodily engagement as well as the psychological and neurological processes that underlie such evaluations.

forthcoming:

• Experiencing Twofoldness in Edited Film. On the Neuroaesthetics of Film Perception. (in preparation for Projections, 2020).
• Aesthetic Emotions Reconsidered (with J.J. Prinz), The Monist (accepted for publication, 2020).
• Habits are Cultural. Expansive Habits, Pervasive Artifacts, and Predictive Coding, in: Habits. Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neurosciences to Social Sciences. F. Caruana, I. Tesla (Hrsg). Cambridge: CUP (accepted for publication, 2020).
• Engaging Paintings. Intimacy and Opacity of a Medium.
• Immigration and the Moral Self. (with J. Gomez-Lavin, J.J. Prinz)
• The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Art and Aesthetic Taste Changes for our Perceived Identity. (with J. Gomez-Lavin, C. Winklmayr. J.J. Prinz), Frontiers in Psychology (in prep).

2019

• Sharing the filmic experience - the physiology of socio-emotional processes in the cinema. Laura Kaltwasser, Nicolas Rost, Martina Ardizzi, Marta Calbi, Luca Settembrino, Joerg Fingerhut, Michael Pauen, Vittorio Gallese,  PLoS ONE (accepted for publication).
• Empirischer Ästhetik und die Bildfrage. Perspektive, Komplexität und Leere in der japanischen und europäischen Tradition, in: Bilder als Denkmittel und Kulturform - Bildwissenschaftliche Dialoge zwischen Japan und Deutschland. Y. Sakamoto, F. Jäger, J. Tanaka (Eds.), de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
• Embodying the camera: an EEG study on the effect of camera movements on film spectators´ sensorimotor cortex activation. Katrin Heimann, Marta Calbi, Sebo Uithol, Alessandra Umiltà, Michele Guerra, Joerg Fingerhut, Vittorio Gallese, PLoS ONE 14(3), 1-18.

2018

• Embodied Seeing-In, Empathy, and Expansionism, Projections 12(2), 28-38.
• Enactive Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics, Phenomenology and the Mind 1, 80-97.
• Verkörperung, in: 23 Manifeste zu Bildakt und Verkörperung, de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, 183-190.
• Wonder, Appreciation, and the Value of Art (with J.J. Prinz), Progress in Brain Research, 237, 107-128.
• Grounding Evaluative Concepts (with J.J. Prinz), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373(1752).

2017

• Editorial: Bridging Art and the Visual Sciences (with C.C. Carbon), Art and Perception 5(4), 347-352.
• Abstracts from the 5th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) (edited with C.C. Carbon), Art and Perception 5(4), 337-426.
• Philosophie der Verkörperung - Ein Forschungsbericht zur Embodied Cognition, (with Rebekka Hufendiek), Information Philosophie 2017 (3), 16-32.  
• Movies and the Mind. On Our Filmic Body (with K. Heimann), in: Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture. Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World, Th. Fuchs, Chr. Durt, Chr. Tewes (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 353-377.
• Neurourbanism: Towards a new discipline (with M. Adli et al.), The Lancet Psychiatry 4(3), 183-185. 

2016

• Neurourbanistik - ein methodischer Schulterschluss zwischen Stadtplanung und Neurowissenschaften (with M. Adli, M. Berger, E.-L. Brakemeier, et al.), Die Psychatrie 13 (2), 70-78.

2014 

• Extended Imagery, Extended Access, Or Something Else? Pictures and the Extended Mind Hypothesis, in: Bildakt at the Warburg Institute, de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, pp. 33-55.

2013

• Einleitung in die Philosophie der Verkörperung, (with R. Hufendiek & M. Wild), in: Philosophie der Verkörperung. Grundlagentexte zu einer aktuellen Debatte, Suhrkamp, Berlin, 9-102.
• The Bodily Basis of the Mind (PhD Thesis). This is a link to a Precis of the Thesis; full version upon request or in German libraries (e.g., ub.hu-berlin.de). 

For more information, full list of publications, and copies of most papers see my academia page.

 Talks (selection)

• Experimenting the Self (Berlin, June 3, 2018)
• The Aesthetic Self (Berlin, June 4, 2018, Conference on Being Moved)
• Embodied Seeing-In film (Bozeman, June 2018, SCSMI)
• Complexity in Pictures (Rome, September 2018, Space Perception Conference)

 Research projects/collaborations within the Einstein Group (selection)

• with Jesse Prinz: Wonder and aesthetic emotions (theoretical papers)
• with Antonia Reindl, Aenne Brielmann, & Jesse Prinz: Complexity in Art - Cross-cultural (Japanese/German) differences in art perception (behavioral & eye-tracking studies)
• with Aenne Brielmann: Beauty in Art (behavioral studies) 
• with Katrin Heimann: Exploration of our interaction with camera movements and edited film (motor engagement, attention) and the question whether we have adapted to the filmic means used in cinema? (EEG experiments & theoretical paper)
• with Javier Gomez-Lavin: The Aesthetic Self (theoretical paper and behavioral studies)

Teaching (selection)

• Picture Perception and Evaluation (2017-18) 
• Culture, Embodiment, Cognition (2017)
• Current Issues in Embodied Cognition  (2016)
• The Cognitive Science of Art and Aesthetics (2015-16)
• Introduction into the Philosophy of Emotions (2015)