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.
@article{DingsMcCarrollNewen2023,
author = {Dings, Roy and McCarroll, Christopher J. and Newen, Albert},
title = {Situated authenticity in episodic memory},
journal = {Synthese},
volume = {202},
number = {3},
month = {September},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1007/s11229-023-04309-w},
}
@article{DingsMcCarrollNewen2023,
author = {Dings, Roy and McCarroll, Christopher J. and Newen, Albert},
title = {Situated authenticity in episodic memory},
journal = {Synthese},
volume = {202},
number = {3},
month = {September},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1007/s11229-023-04309-w},
}
@article{DingsMcCarroll2022,
author = {Dings, Roy and McCarroll, Christopher Jude},
title = {The Complex Phenomenology of Episodic Memory: Felt Connections, Multimodal Perspectivity, and Multifaceted Selves},
journal = {Journal of Consciousness Studies},
volume = {29},
number = {11},
pages = {29–55},
month = {December},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.53765/20512201.29.11.029},
}
Dings, R., & McCarroll, C. J. (2022). The Complex Phenomenology of Episodic Memory: Felt Connections, Multimodal Perspectivity, and Multifaceted Selves. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29(11), 29–55. http://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.29.11.029
What′s special about `not feeling like oneself′? A deflationary account of self(-illness) ambiguity
@article{Dingsde Bruin2022,
author = {Dings, Roy and de Bruin, Leon C.},
title = {What′s special about `not feeling like oneself′? A deflationary account of self(-illness) ambiguity},
journal = {Philosophical Explorations},
pages = {1–21},
month = {March},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1080/13869795.2022.2051592},
}
Dings, R., & de Bruin, L. C. (2022). What′s special about `not feeling like oneself′? A deflationary account of self(-illness) ambiguity. Philosophical Explorations, 1–21. http://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2022.2051592
@article{DingsNewen2021,
author = {Dings, Roy and Newen, Albert},
title = {Constructing the Past: the Relevance of the Narrative Self in Modulating Episodic Memory},
journal = {Review of Philosophy and Psychology},
month = {August},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1007/s13164-021-00581-2},
}
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.