About

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Positions: I’m a PhD student in cognitive science at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University (GER). I specialized in philosophy of mind and cognition, in particular the situated cognition paradigm. As a member of the working group ‘Philosophy of Mind and Cognition’, I teach philosophical and interdisciplinary classes to both bachelor and master students of our cognitive science program. I also work as a deputy scientific coordinator for the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’, which is a DFG-funded project of Osnabrück University and Ruhr University Bochum. My PhD project is associated with it as well.

Project: In my PhD project, I am critically reviewing the debate on extended, embedded, and bounded cognition within the (western-analytic) situated cognition paradigm. I plan to complete a monograph on the debate development, its current limitations, and on a possible alternative hypothesis. My proposal of extracted cognition shall be more encompassing toward cases of advanced cognitive tools and environmental interactions, especially given how new AI applications enter our (cognitive) lives.

Education: I received a bachelor and master of science in cognitive science from the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University. I am now completing their three-stage program with a PhD in cognitive science. My specialization has primarily been philosophy, along with cognitive psychology. Other areas of training include computer science and artificial intelligence, neuroscience and neuroinformatics, computer linguistics and formal logic, and many other areas of cognitive science. During my bachelor studies, I also did a semester abroad at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) in philosophy and psychology.

Louis Loock, M.Sc.
Osnabrück University
Institute of Cognitive Science
AG: Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

Wachsbleiche 27
49090 Osnabrück
Germany