Description

The project addresses current challenges related to the negative impact of circulating representations of the digital ecosystem on individual psychology and social behavior. The aim is to conduct multidisciplinary research into the mechanisms of maladaptive representations. The project comprises three research objectives, the analyses of which will study the impact of media representations on individuals and, subsequently, on society. These analyses will provide a theoretical and empirical basis for creating and evaluating remediation strategies targeting the most problematic domains of global phenomena.

The research group at the Department of Philosophy focuses on the role of conscious and unconscious attention in the processes of perception, constitution, and competing representations of shared reality. Its goal is to expand research toward attention mechanisms and how attention modulates the content of mental representations. The results of this research will also be relevant for assessing the question of how attention contributes to the reinforcement of certain representations and their influence on a person’s cognitive states, while other, competing conceptions of reality are suppressed.

Activities

Workshop on Attention in Contemporary Consciousness Science – 6. 11. 2025 (TBA)