Linda Grohmann

Project Summary

My PhD project investigates the arguments and claims put forth by researchers of nonhuman mentality (NM). NM encompasses different areas of the study of cognition, intelligence, and consciousness in nonhuman living beings, such as nonhuman animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria. This research and its implications are often controversial and heavily debated within science but surprisingly popular in other academic fields such as the humanities, and among the wider public. By analysing the NM debate, my project explores whether NM research is in the process of transforming biology and related areas of science.

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Talks

• Grohmann, L. (2025): “Behaviour, Cognition, and the Double Bind of Comparative Research”. Workshop “Behavior Across the Tree of Life” (Leuven).
• Grohmann, L. (2024): “Darwin, Mentality, and Life Through the Lens of Plants”. Workshop „Darwin and Darwinisms“ (University of Belgrade), XXVI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie (Münster)

Short Biography

• Since 2023: Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy of Science, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• 2019–2022: M.A. Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 2015–2019: B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Stuttgart (w/o degree completion)
• 2013–2019: B.A. Philosophy, University of Stuttgart