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Dr. Roy Dings

Project P7

roy.dings@rub.de

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roy_Dings

I am a postdoctoral researcher.
My research centers on the topics of self-experience and self-understanding. More specifically I study the dynamic and diachronic interplay between reflective agency (e.g. narrative self-understanding) and unreflective agency (e.g. engagement with affordances).
In the FOR2812 project I zoom in on the modulatory role of memory in this interplay. For instance, I investigate how the narrative self influences scenario construction, and how the bodily self contributes to the phenomenology of episodic memory recall.
Although I am primarily trained as a philosopher, in my research I also draw on fields such as psychology, psychiatry and cognitive science.

Selected Publications

    2023

  • Situated authenticity in episodic memory
    Dings, R., McCarroll, C. J., & Newen, A.
    Synthese, 202(3)

    2023

  • Situated authenticity in episodic memory
    Dings, R., McCarroll, C. J., & Newen, A.
    Synthese, 202(3)
  • Visual perspective in autobiographical memories of self-incongruent episodes
    Lukaschewski, T. M., Waldhauser, G. T., Dings, R., Heinen, R., Gomes, C. A., Newen, A., & Axmacher, N.
    Memory, 1–14

    • 2022

  • The Complex Phenomenology of Episodic Memory: Felt Connections, Multimodal Perspectivity, and Multifaceted Selves
    Dings, R., & McCarroll, C. J.
    Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29(11), 29–55
  • What′s special about `not feeling like oneself′? A deflationary account of self(-illness) ambiguity
    Dings, R., & de Bruin, L. C.
    Philosophical Explorations, 1–21
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  • Trügerische Erinnerung
    Dings, R., & Newen, A.
    Der Allgemeinarzt
    pdf

    • 2021

  • Constructing the Past: the Relevance of the Narrative Self in Modulating Episodic Memory
    Dings, R., & Newen, A.
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology

    • 2020

  • Meaningful affordances
    Dings, R.
    Synthese
    On-line version

About the research unit

The research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.

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Contact

Universitätsstr. 150,
44801 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)234 32 27996
Fax: +49 (0)234 32 14210