INSTITUT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE
Dr. Patrice Soom
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (post-doc) for the SFB 991, project B06 "Frame Analysis of Mental Disorders"
Address:
Room 23.31.01.66
Institut für Philosophie
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Education and CV
2010-2011 Junior Lecturer, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
2010 Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
2009 Visiting graduate student at the Washington University in St. Louis (USA).
2007 Master of Arts (Licence ès Lettres), University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
Research interests
Areas of specialization: Philosophy of science, especially inter-theoretic reduction, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of neuroscience.
Areas of competence: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, philosophy of language, metaphysics.
Publications
Patrice Soom, Gottfried Vosgerau (2012), “A Functionalist Approach to the Concept of ‘Delusion’”, in Ute Schmid, Michael Siebers, Claus-Christian Carbon, Marius Raab, Jascha Rüsseler, Tom Gross, Christoph Schlieder, Dietrich Dörner (Eds.), Proceedings of KogWis 2012, 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society. Bamberg, Bamberg University Press, pp. 105-106. Pdf file
Patrice Soom (2012), "La psychologie est-elle une science une science indispensable?", in Canal Psy, 100, pp. 8-11. Pdf file
Patrice Soom (2012), "Mechanisms, Determination and the Metaphysics of Neuroscience", in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43, pp. 655-664. Pdf file
Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse and Patrice Soom (2012), "Marrying the merits of Nagelian reduction and functional reduction", in Acta Analytica, 27 (3), pp. 217-230. Pdf file
Patrice Soom (2011), From Psychology to Neuroscience. A new reductive account. Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, 318 p. Link
Patrice Soom, Christan Sachse and Michael Esfeld (2010), "Psycho-neural reduction through functional sub-types”, in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17, pp. 7-26. Pdf file
Kristoffer C. Aberg, Eric Albrecht, Elisa M. Tartaglia, Alain Farron, Soom Patrice, and Michael H. Herzog (2009), "Anesthesia Prevents Auditory Perceptual Learning”, in Anesthesiology, 111, pp. 1011–1015. Link
Christian Sachse and Patrice Soom (2009), "L'autonomie des sciences spéciales reconsidérée”, in Klesis. Revue philosophique, 2, pp. 69-105. Pdf file
Patrice Soom (2008), "Naturalizing the mind: binding common-sense functionalism and Neuropsychology" in Gethmann, C.F. (ed.): Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft, XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Sektionsbeiträge, (CD-Rom). Pdf file
Patrice Soom (2008), Review of Paul Churchland (2007), “Neurophilosophy at Work”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 30, 99-126. Pdf file