We will present the first results of our project at the conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy in June 2025 in Gdansk (Poland), the ESPP conference in September 2025 in Warsaw (Poland), and the GAP12 conference in September 2025 in Düsseldorf (Germany).
The Therapeutic Game
In October 2024, the research project on the philosophy of language of psychotherapy titled The Therapeutic Game and funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation has started at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The following abstract-video briefly introduces the central idea of the project, which is to gain a better understanding of the linguistic mechanisms of therapeutic methods based on David Lewis' theory of conversations as games.
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Publication in Philosophy
18.03.2025
Stefan Rinner's paper ''Scorekeeping in a Therapeutic Language Game'' has been published in Philosophy. The paper can be accessed using the following link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819124000160. The paper won the 2023 Essay Prize of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
The research project "The Therapeutic Game" (PI Stefan Rinner) funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and based at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen is organising an interdisciplinary two-day online conference on questions regarding language and its use in psychotherapeutic settings, to be held via Zoom on May 8 and 9...