Curriculum Vitae Gregor M. Hörzer

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Curriculum Vitae

Gregor Michael Hörzer

Office address: Philosophy of Mind and Cognition Research Group Institute of Cognitive Science Osnabrück University Wachsbleiche 27, room 309 D-49090 Osnabrück Germany

Phone (Office): +49 541 969 3361

Phone (Cell): +49 157 561 54 963

E-Mail: ghoerzer@uos.de

Webpage: http://ikw.uos.de/~ghoerzer/

Education and Professional Experience

since 04/2014 Researcher and Doctoral student at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition Research Group, Osnabrück University. Advisor: Sven Walter, Osnabrück

02/2014 Mag. phil. (Philosophy, with distinction, equiv. to M.A.), University of Graz Advisors: Johann C. Marek, Graz; Sven Walter, Osnabrück Referee: Marian David, Graz Thesis Title: On the Relation of Reasons and Causes. A Critical Discussion of Donald Davidson's Theory of Action within the Context of his Anomalous Monism.

03/2013 - 06/2013 Teaching assistant (Epistemology), Institute of Philosophy, Univ. of Graz Advisor: Marian David, Graz

04/2012 - 07/2012 Erasmus intern, Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University Advisor: Sven Walter, Osnabrück

05/2011 Dr. techn. (Computer Science), Graz University of Technology Advisor: Wolfgang Maass, Graz Referee: Alois Schlögl, Klosterneuburg Thesis title: Analysis of Neural Data and Models of Neural Networks related to Working Memory

07/2008 - 05/2011 Researcher and Doctoral Student (Computer Science) at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (IGI), Department for Neural Information Processing and Machine Learning, Graz University of Technology.

06/2008 Dipl.-Ing. (Telematics, with distinction, equiv. to M.Sc.), Graz University of Technology (Specialization: Bio- & Neuroinformatics, Machine Learning) Advisor: Wolfgang Maass, Graz Thesis title: Extraction of Information about the Behavioral State of Monkeys from Neuronal Recordings with Methods from Machine Learning

09/2006 Bakk. techn. (Telematics, equiv. to B.Sc.), Graz University of Technology

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Journal Publications

Gregor M. Hoerzer (2015): Cognitive Naturalism and the Phenomenal Feel. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 6 (3), 492-496.

Gregor M. Hoerzer, Robert Legenstein, Wolfgang Maass (2014): Emergence of complex computational structures from chaotic neural networks through reward-modulated Hebbian learning, Cerebral Cortex 24 (3), doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs348, 677-690.

Stefanie Liebe, Gregor M. Hoerzer, Nikos K. Logothetis and Gregor Rainer (2012): Theta coupling between V4 and prefrontal cortex predicts visual short-term memory performance, Nature Neuroscience 15, 456-462.

Gregor M. Hoerzer, Stefanie Liebe, Alois Schloegl, Nikos K. Logothetis and Gregor Rainer (2010): Directed coupling in local field potentials of macaque V4 during visual short-term memory revealed by multivariate autoregressive models, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fncom.2010.00014.

Conference Contributions

Gregor M. Hoerzer (2015): Zombies threaten the Contingency of Physicalism and Dualism (Talk). 9th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.9), Osnabrück, Germany.

Gregor M. Hoerzer, Robert Legenstein, and Wolfgang Maass (2011): Eliminating the teacher in Reservoir Computing (Talk, presented by R.L.), 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation (ICMC), Venice, Italy.

Stefanie Liebe, Gregor M. Hoerzer, Nikos K. Logothetis, and Gregor Rainer (2011): Long range coupling in theta between V4 and prefrontal cortex predicts visual memory performance (Poster, presented by S.L.), Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, USA.

Stefanie Liebe, Gregor M. Hoerzer, Nikos K. Logothetis and Gregor Rainer (2010): Oscillatory neuronal synchronization between prefrontal and extrastriate visual cortex during visual memory (Poster, presented by S.L.), Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.

Gregor M. Hoerzer (2010): Reward-modulated Hebbian Learning is able to induce Coherent Patters of Activity and Simple Memory Functions in initially Chaotic Recurrent Neural Networks (Poster and Talk), Workshop on Cognitive and Neural Models for Automated Processing of Speech and Text (CONAS), Ghent, Belgium.

Stefanie Liebe, Gregor M. Hoerzer, Nikos K. Logothetis, Wolfgang Maass and Gregor Rainer (2009): Long Range Coupling between V4 and PF in Theta Band during Visual Short-Term Memory (Poster, presented by S.L.), Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA.

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Teaching Experience

summer 2017 Lecturer: „Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind“ (Seminar), IKW, Univ. of Osnabrück, Germany (UOS).

winter 2016/17 Lecturer: „David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding“, IKW, UOS.

summer 2016 Lecturer: „Mental Causation“ (Seminar, together with S. Schmoranzer), IKW, UOS.

winter 2015/16 Lecturer: „What is Physicalism?“ (Seminar), IKW, UOS.

summer 2015 Lecturer: „Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind“ (Seminar), IKW, UOS.

Lecturer: „Trouble with Reference? Better call Saul! (Kripke’s ‚Naming and Necessity’)“ (Block Seminar, together with H. Fraissler), IKW, UOS.

winter 2014/15 Lecturer, „Can Zombies help us to understand Consciousness?“ (Seminar), IKW, UOS.

summer 2014 Lecturer, „Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind“ (Seminar), IKW, UOS.

Guest Lecturer, „Philosophy of Cognition“ (Seminar, replacement for Prof. Walter, 3 sessions, together with I. Biermann), IKW, UOS.

summer 2010 Guest Lecturer, „Neural Networks B“ (Lecture, replacement for Prof. Maass, summer 2011 1 sesson each term, together with J. Bill), IGI, Graz University of Technology.

Organization of Scientific Events (Assistance)

March 2016 Interdisciplinary Research Week: „Pediatric Neuroenhancement“

September 2015 9th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.9), Osnabrück, Germany.

June 2011 Project and review meeting for the EU project „ORGANIC“, Graz, Austria.

October 2009 Project meeting for the EU project „ORGANIC“, St. Ilgen, Austria.

Osnabrück, April 28, 2017