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Simone Mahrenholz

E-mail: simone.mahrenholz@umanitoba.ca

Simone Mahrenholz is Associate Professor at University of Manitoba, Canada. Her PhD (TU Berlin) is on cognition in the arts, her Habilitationsschrift (Freie Universität Berlin) suggests a systematic theory of creativity and relates it to three phases: (1) Plato and Aristotle, (2) Leibniz—Baumgarten—Kant, (3) Wittgenstein, N. Goodman, G. Bateson. Her research addresses concepts of cognition and rationality, conceived in a broader perspective. Further research topics address logic & the ‘analog’, Existentialism, philosophy of music, philosophy of film, among others. Mahrenholz has been Senior Fellow at Collegium Budapest, IAS, Associate Professor at FU Berlin, research fellow at Research Cluster SFB 626 at FU Berlin and Professor at Berlin University of Art and Design (BTK). At Berkeley she works on ‘The Paradox of Precision’. More info at her page on [academia.edu.] (https://umanitoba.academia.edu/SimoneMahrenholz)