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Sebastian Scholz

I have recently defended my cumulative PhD thesis on Conceptual Spaces – a cognitive theory of the structure of conceptual content. My papers focus on connections with naturalness, Bayesian reasoning, and explanations in cognitive science.

Fields of research: empirically informed philosophy of mind and cognition, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, metaphysics of science

Areas of specialization: theories of concepts, mental representation, Bayesian reasoning / belief revision, Predictive Processing, Explainable AI, naturalness, and abilities

 

Please find my full CV here. 

 

Publications

 

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Scholz, Sebastian (submitted). „Conceptual Spaces Against Semantic Opaqueness in Bayesian Cognitive Modeling„. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

     

  • Scholz, Sebastian (revised and resubmitted). „Conceptual Spaces as Predictive models”. Synthese. 

     

  • Scholz, Sebastian & Vosgerau, Gottfried. „Conceptual spaces: Naturalness or cognitive sparseness?”. Synthese, 12 March 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-04941-8.

     

  • Scholz, Sebastian. "Conceptual Spaces: A Solution to Goodman's New Riddle of Induction?" Philosophia, 23 July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00744-2

Other publications

  • Scholz, Sebastian. Buchbesprechung zu Jungert, Michael & Schuol, Sebastian: "Scheitern in den Wissenschaften – Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung". Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur.  Bd. 13. Nur. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.13.1.39598.