Sofiia Rappe is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy II at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where she was previously a Neuromind Stipendiary Fellow. Sofiia’s research focuses on cognitive mechanisms underlying various kinds of mental simulation from the predictive processing perspective, including fantastical and instructive imagination, counterfactual reasoning, and episodic remembering. Sofiia is also interested in subjective experience and, in particular, atypical experiences such as derealisation, extraordinary perception, and hallucination, which links her research to the field of philsophy of psychiatry. The third strand of her work investigates the relationship between thought and language and the role of communication in shaping the mind.
• On October 3, Sofiia joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick as a visiting research fellow at the Department of Philosophy.
• On October 7-11, Sofiia presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of psychiatry in the context of cognitive sciences for medical degree students at the American Canadian School of Medicine.
• On October 18, Sofiia attended the Developmental Workshop: “Ontogenetically orderly maturation (on a schedule) of human socio-motor agency: New methods and translational applications at scale” by Dr. Elizabeth Torres at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
• Starting October 21, Sofiia joined the bi-weekly NYU Philosophy of Mind discussion group hosted by Prof. Chalmers.
• Starting October 25th, Sofiia joined the weekly reading group on developmental psychology at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science hosted by Dr. Hurst.
• On November 5th, Sofiia will present her collaborative work on Deep Dialogism and lead the follow-up discussion at the Hive Mind Research Group (Rutgers).
• On November 22, Sofiia will host a joint RUB-Rutgers workshop at Rutgers University (Title: TBA).
• On November 29, Sofiia will present her work on the sense of reality at the Enriched Reality Assembly (online).