Prof. Dr. Uljana Feest

under review

Damböck, Christian; Feest, Uljana Kusch, Martin (Eds.), 2020, “Descriptive Psychology and Völkerpsychologie—in the Contexts of Historicism, Relativism, and Naturalism.” Special Issue in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Vol. 19 (1)

2017

2012

2011

Feest, U. & Sturm, T. (Eds.), 2011, "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" Erkenntnis 75 (special edition).

2010

Feest, U., (Ed.), 2010, Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen. Dordrecht: Springer. 320

Feest, U. 2024, “What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Philosophy of Science

Feest, U. 2022, “Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts, and the Reactivity of the Psychological Subject Matter.” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00443-9

2017

Feest, U., 2017, "Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences." Philosophy of Science 84, 1165-1176.

2016

Feest, U.,2016,  "The Experimenters’ Regress Reconsidered: Tacit Knowledge, Skepticism, and the Dynamics of Knowledge Generation". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 58, 34-54.

2014

Feest, U., 2014, "Phenomenal Experiences, First-Person Methods, and the Artificiality of Experimental Data." Philosophy of Science 81, 927-939.

2012a

Feest, U., 2012a, "Introspection as a Method and Introspection as a Feature of Consciousness." Inquiry 55(1), 1-16.

2012b

Feest, U., 2012b, "Husserl’s Crisis as a Crisis of Psychology." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science 43(2): 493-503.

2011a

Feest, U., 2011a, "Remembering (Short-Term) Memory. Oscillations of an Epistemic Thing." Erkenntnis 75, 391–411.

2011b

Feest, U., 2011b, "What Exactly is Stabilized When Phenomena are Stabilized?" Synthese 182(1), 57-71.

2011c

Feest, U. & Sturm, T., 2011c, "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" In T. Sturm & U. Feest (eds.), Sonderheft von Erkenntnis, Historical Epistemology. Erkenntnis 75, 285–302.

2010

Feest, U., 2010, "Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology." Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 4(1), 173-190.

2007a

Feest, U. 2007a, "'Hypotheses, Everywhere Only Hypotheses!' On Some Contexts of Dilthey's Critique of Explanatory Psychology". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(1), 43-62.

2007b

Feest, U., 2007b, "Science and Experience - Science of Experience: Gestalt Psychology and the Anti-Metaphysical Project of the Aufbau". Perspectives on Science 15(1), 38-62.

2005

Feest, U., 2005, "Operationism in Psychology - What the Debate is About, What the Debate Should Be About". Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, XLI(2), 131-150. [Portugese translation: "O Operacionismo na Psicologie: Sobre o que é o Debate, sobre o que Deveria Ser o Debate." In Saulo de Fraitas Araujo (ed.) (2012), História e Filosofia da Psichologia. Perspectivas Contemporâneas, Juiz de Fora: UFJF, 259-296]

Feest, U., 2003, "Functional Analysis and the Autonomy of Psychology." Philosophy of Science, 70(5), December 2003, 937-948.

Feest, U. 2024, “Carnap and Psychology.” In Damböck, C. & Schiemer, G. (eds.), Handbuch Rudolf Carnap/Rudolf Carnap Handbook. Metzler Verlag

Feest, U. 2023, “(Folk-) Psychological Concepts and the Investigation of Psychological Kinds.” In Bloch, C. & Arabatzis, T. (eds), Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Accepted

Feest, U.: "Quantifying Gestalt Qualities: Modernism and the Measurement of Experience". In M. Epple & F. Müller, (Eds.), Science as Cultural Practice. Vol. II: Modernism in the Sciences, ca 1900-1940. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.

Sturm, T. & Feest, U., 2022, “Implicit reasoning.” In Thompson, R. (ed). Routledge Handbook of Implicit Cognition. Routledge (Chapter 31, 377-388).

Feest, U., 2022, “Progress in Psychology.” In Shan, Yafeng (ed.): New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. Routledge, 184-203.

Feest, U., 2021, “Eigenpsychisches und Fremdpsychisches: Rudolf Carnaps Verhältnis zur Psychologie. In Christian Damböck and Gereon Wolters (eds.): Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918-1935/Der junge Carnap im historischen Kontext: 1918-1935. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis, Dordrecht: Springer. 169-184.

2017a

Feest, U., 2017a, "Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange". In Adams, A.; Biener, Z.; Feest; U. & Sullivan, J (Eds.), Oppure Si Mouve: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer, 113-125.

2017b

Feest, U., 2017b, "Philosophie der Psychologie." Beitrag zum Band Philosophie der Einzelwissenschaften (edited by Simon Lohse und Thomas Reydon, Hamburg: Meiner-Verlag), 475-509.

2016

Feest, U. & Steinle, F., 2016, "Experiment." In: Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, edited by Paul Humphreys), 275-295.

2014

Feest, U., 2014, "The Enduring Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychology." In: M. C. Galavotti & F. Stadler (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 5. Springer, 693-709.

2012

Feest, U., 2012, "Exploratory Experiments, Concept Formation and Theory Construction in Psychology." In U. Feest & F. Steinle (Eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin: de Gruyter, 167-189.

Feest, U. & Steinle, F., 2012, "Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice: Introduction." In U. Feest & F. Steinle (Eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-23.

2010

Feest, U., 2010, "Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: Introduction". In U. Feest (Ed.): Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen. Dordrecht: Springer, 1-13.

2005

Feest, U., 2005, "Giving Up Instincts In Psychology - Or Not?" In B. Gómez- Zúñiga & A. Mülberger (Eds.): Recent Contributions to the History of the Human Sciences. München: Profil-Verlag, 242-259.

2002

Feest, U., 2002, "Die Konstruktion von Bewußtsein. Eine psychologiehistorische Fallstudie". In Claus Zittel (Ed.): Wissen und soziale Konstruktion. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 129-153.

2018

Feest, U., 2018, "Deutscher Empirismus. Studien zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum 1830-1930, by Christian Damböck." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8, 480-485.

“Context-Sensitivity.” Keynote lecture for the biannual meeting of the European Society of Philosophy of Science (EPSA), Belgrade, September 20-23, 2023.

“What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Talk at replication conference at Bochum (organized by Suilin Lavelle) (June 2, 2023)

“Validity and Algorithmic Bias in Psychological Research.” Talk at final conference for BIAS-project, Leibniz Universität Hannover (April 27-29, 2023).

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile (March 30, 2023)

“What Kinds of Things are Psychological Kinds?” Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile (March 28, 2023)

"Coordination, Context-Sensitivity, and the Validity of Inferences in Psychology: Beyond Attributes and Instruments." Talk at workshop “Coordination and validity in measurement across science and medicine: historical and epistemological perspectives” (organized by Michele Luchetti). Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (March 23, 2023)

“The Validity of Machine Learning Models for the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at “Translating Validity Colloquium,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (February 9, 2023)

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at joint colloquium of the University of Vienna and the Central European University (January 23, 2023)

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at the Department of Philosophy of Stockholm University (January 19, 2023).

“What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Talk at the 28th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2022

“Personality Computing.” Talk at Workshop Big Data and Machine Learning. Tübingen, October 2022.

“Replication, Robustness Analysis, and Conceptual Development in Psychology.” At conference Concept Formation in the Life Sciences.” Workshop The Structure and Development of Concepts in the Life Sciences. February 7-9 2022, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld University

“Specialness and (Dis)Unity: The Case of Psychology.” Conference Are Social Sciences Special? Kings College Cambridge. June 28th and 29th 2022.

“Experimental Artifacts, Uncertainty, and the Investigative Process in Psychology.” Talk at conference Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation 6 (PSX6): Uncertainty in Experimental Contexts. St. Louis University, October 16, 2021 (Zoom)

“Replication, Robustness Analysis, and Conceptual Development in Psychology.” Talk at conference Philosophical Perspectives on the Replication Crisis. Edinburgh, May 20, 2021 (Zoom)

“Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena.” Ghent/Brussels Work-In-Progress-Colloquium, March 25, 2021 (Zoom)

“Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena.” Colloquium talk at the University of Warsaw. April 9, 2021 (Zoom)

“Experimental Artifacts, Experimental Design, and the Reactivity of the Psychological Subject Matter.” Talk at Max Planck Cognition Academy. Berlin, January 2021 (Zoom)

“Kognitive Ontologie”.  Colloquium at the Gutenberg Universität Mainz, November 2020. (Zoom)

“Psychological Concepts, Cognitive Kinds and Investigative Practice.” Workshop Cognitive Ontology, March 27-28, 2019, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Zoom)

“Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena”. Workshop: Reactivity in the Research Process. March 5-6, 2020. University of Bergen, Norway (organized by Julie Zahle)

"The status of introspection in Dilthey's descriptive psychology." Konferenz Folk Psychology and Descriptive Psychology, April 26-28, 2017, Vienna.

"Construct Validity in Psychological Tests – The Case of Implicit Social Cognition." Workshop Cognitive Ontology, Washington University, St. Louis, Feb 1, 2017.

"Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences", 26th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, Atlanta, November 2016.

"Conceptual articulation and the experimental creation of phenomena: the role of scientific method(ology)." Invited talk at symposium about J. Rouse’s book: Articulating the World. Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image. Freie Universität Berlin, March 2016

"What are phenomena in the cognitive and behavioral sciences?" Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Düsseldorf, September 2015

"Phänomene in den Kognitions- und Verhaltenswissenschaften." Vortrag an der Universität Bielefeld, Juli 2015 "What are phenomena in the cognitive and behavioral sciences?" Lecture at the Universität Graz, Juni 2015

"Construct Validity in Psychological Tests – The Case of Implicit Social Cognition." Lecture at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), January 2015

"Darf Wissenschaft täuschen? Ethische Probleme in den Sozialwissenschaften." Lecture in the series Wissenschaft in der Verantwortung, Verantwortung in der Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Dezember 2014

"Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange." 25th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, Chicago, November 2014

"Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange." Conference History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Ghent (Belgium), July 2014

"Stimulus Error and the Red Herring of Introspection." Conference Integrated HPS 5, Vienna, June 2014.

"Test Validity and the Problematic Status of Implicit Social Cognition." Workshop: Experiment, Conceptual Change, and Scientific Realism, Athen (Griechenland), May 2014

"Experiments and the Method of Converging Operations." Conference: Causality and Experimentation in Science. Paris, 1-3 July 2013

"Introspection and the Artificiality of Experimental Data." 24th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, San Diego, November 2012

"The Enduring Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology." Conference: Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Bologna, 17.-21. October, 2012.

"First-Person Methods and the Design of Experiments." Conference Should a Science of Cognition use First-Person Methods? Workshop am Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, 15-16 June 2012.

"The Experimenters’ Regress Reconsidered: Tacit Knowledge, Operational Analysis, and the Scientific Process." University of Texas, El Paso, February 2, 2012.

"Experimentation and the Skeptical Challenge: The Role of Methodological Maxims." Conference Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, 15-17th October 2010.

"Revisiting the Brentano Puzzle. The Autonomy of Psychology and the Shifting Status of Conscious Experience". Konferenz der European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Utrecht, 23-27 August 2010.

"Commentary on paper by Corinne Bloch". Workshop Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Pittsburgh, 17-19 September 2010 

• Lecture class: Philosophy of Psychology

• Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Science Core Course
• Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Language
• Seminar: Philosophisches Arbeiten

• Seminar (MA): The Scientific Study and Measurement of Personality
• Seminar: Bildungsphilosophie
• Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie 2

• Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Science Core Course
• Seminar: Philosophisches Arbeiten
• Institute-Colloquium

• Lecture class: Philosophy of Psychology

• Seminar: Implicit Bias and Philosophy

• Seminar (MA): Generalizations under Uncertainty

• Sabbatical

• Lecture class: History of Philosophy II (Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie)
• Seminar (BA): Kant’s Prolegomena (Kants Prolegomena)
• Seminar (MA): Robustness Examined (in English)

• Lecture class: Topics in Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind (in English)
• Seminar (MA): Taxonomy and Concept Formation in Psychology (in English)
• Seminar (BA): Wilhelm Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human sciences (Wilhelm Dilthey und die Grundlagen der Geisteswissenschaften)

• Lecture class: History of Philosophy II (Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie II)
• Reading course: History of Philosophy II (Lektüreseminar: Geschichte der Philosophie II)
• Seminar (MA): Animal Cognition (in English)
• Seminar (MA): Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (in English)
• Seminar (BA): Philosophy of Education (Bildungsphilosophie)
• Colloquium for Philosophy (with Mathias Frisch) (Kolloquium für Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion)

Winter Semester   2017/18

• Lecture class (MA): Philosophy of Experiment (in English)
• Seminar (MA): Tacit Knowledge (in English)
• Seminar: Husserl‘s Crisis of the European Sciences (Husserls Krise der europäischen Wissenschaften)
• Seminar: Women in Philosophy (Frauen in der Philosophie)
• Colloquium for Philosophy (with Mathias Frisch) (Kolloquium für Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion)

Summer Semester 2017

• Lecture class (MA): Philosophy of Psychology (in English)
• Seminar (MA): Special Topics in the Philosophy of Psychology (in English)
• Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II
• Lecture seminar: Geschichte der Philosophie II

Winter Semester   2016/17

• Historische Texte zu Erklären und Verstehen

Summer Semester 2016

• Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II
• Lecture seminar Geschichte der Philosophie
• Seminar (MA): Der Begriff der Beobachtung in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts
• Seminar (MA): Feministische Erkenntnistheorie (mit fachdidaktischen Anteilen)

Winter Semester   2015/16

• Lecture class: Philosophie des Experiments
• Seminar (MA): Tierpsychologie
• Seminar (BA): Erkenntnistheorie in Schulbüchern
• Colloquium: Research Seminar of the Institute of Philosophy

Summer Semester 2015

• Lecture Course: Geschichte der Philosophie II
• Seminar (MA): Introspektion, Subjektivität und phänomenales Bewusstsein
• Seminar (BA): Bildungsphilosophie
• Seminar (MA): Wissen, Können, Praxis II
• Colloquium: „Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion“

Winter Semester   2014/15

• Lecture Course: Philosophie der Psychologie (Aufbauvorlesungen für den Masterstudiengang Wissenschaftsphilosophie)
• Seminar (BA): Frauen in der Philosophie
• Seminar (MA): Wissen, Können, Praxis I
• Colloquium: „Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion“

Summer Semester 2014

• Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II
• Seminar (BA): Philosophie des Experiments
• Seminar (BA): Geschichte der Philosophie seit Kant
• Seminar (MA): Philosophie der Psychologie

Summer Semester 2013

• Lecture Course: History of Psychology

Winter Semester   2012/13

• Lecture Course: History of Psychology 
• Seminar: How Science Works

Summer Semester 2012

• Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschafts- und Bioethik
• Seminar (MA): Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie der Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften
• Seminar (MA): Die Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Begriffe (gemeinsam mit Friedrich Steinle)

Winter Semester   2011/12

• Seminar (MA): Philosophie der (Psychologie und) Neurowissenschaften

Summer Semester 2011

• Seminar (MA): Wichtige Texte der (analytischen) Erkenntnistheorie
• Seminar (MA): BA: Hauptprobleme der Wissenschaftstheorie. Eine Einführung

Winter Semester   2010/11

• Seminar (MA): Introspektion und die Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins: neuere Texte 
• Seminar (MA)BA: Probleme des induktiven Argumentierens und der Wahrscheinlichkeit

Summer Semester 2010

• Seminar (MA): Introspektion und die Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins: historische Debatten

Winter Semester   2008/09

• Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschafts- und Bioethik (mit Tutorium)
• MA/HS: Ist der Schluss auf die beste Erklärung immer der beste Schluss?

Summer Semester 2008

• Seminar (BA): Probleme des induktiven Argumentierens und der Wahrscheinlichkeit (mit Tutorium)
• Seminar (MA): Thomas Kuhn und die Historisierung des Wissens

Winter Semester   2007/08

• Lecture Course: Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie (mit Tutorial)
• Seminar (MA): Ausgewählte Texte der Wissenschaftstheorie der Psychologie und Biologie

Summer Semester 2007

• Seminar (BA): Die Philosophie des wissenschaftlichen Experiments
• Seminar (MA): Erfahrung, Empfindung, Wahrnehmung um 1900

Winter Semester   2006/7

• Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie
• Seminar (MA): Hermann Lotze

Summer Semester 2006

• Seminar (BA): Der Begriff der Beobachtung in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts

5.-16- Juli 2010

Lecturer at the Vienna International Summer University (VISU). Course topic: "The Science of the Conscious Mind"

WiSe 2005/06

Lectureship at the Freien Universität Berlin

1998-2005

Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh

1994-1997

Philosophy tutor at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

2023: Member of the Program Committee for the 2023 Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)

2022/2023: Member of Program Committee for the 2022 Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)

2007-2012: Member of the Executive Board of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS).

2005-2012: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS).

On the program committee for the conference of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) in Halifax, Canada, June 2012.

On the program committee for the conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) in Belgrade, Serbia, July 2011 und Montreal, Canada, July 2012.

Member of the 2010/2011 Executive Board European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS).

Member of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).

Member of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).

Member of the Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (GAP).

Member of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (GeWiGe).

Gutachtertätigkeiten für verschiedene Zeitschriften und Stiftungen.

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 2015 (with Holly Andersen, Brian Keeley & Peter Machamer).

"Current Topics in the Philosophy of the Human Science", June 18-19, 2010. 

"Scientific Concepts", 22-23 May, 2009 (with Friedrich Steinle).

"What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" (with Thomas Sturm), July 24-26, 2008.

"Generating Experimental Knowledge" (with Giora Hon, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle). International conference at the Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, June 14-16, 2007.

"Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: An Interdisciplinary Workshop". Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. June 9-11, 2006. 

"Generating Knowledge with the Microscope". Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (with Jutta Schickore). June 23-24, 2006.

2011-2012

Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

2003

Recipient of the Early Career Award, from the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) und the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS)

2003-2004

Postdoctoral scholarship for the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Prof. Rheinberger's department)

2002-2003

Andrew Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship (University of Pittsburgh)

1997-1998

DAAD scholarship for a visit at the Department for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh