Jens Mammen

Jens Mammen is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aalborg University. His work bridges Cultural Psychology, Mathematical Logic, and Epistemology, focusing on axiomatic foundations for cognitive categories and critiques of mechanistic psychology.

• Research Pillars: Cultural Psychology, Mathematical Modeling, Cognitive Theory, Epistemology
• Key Contributions: Development of a set-theoretic model of mind, integration of topological concepts in psychology, interdisciplinary dialogue with biology and mathematics

Recent Publications (2017-2023) emphasize:

• Foundational challenges in psychological theory
• Mathematical frameworks for human-object relations
• Critiques of reductionism and computational models
• Exploration of 'soul' and consciousness in scientific contexts

Media Engagement includes debates on academic integrity and public discourse, particularly around the 2013-2014 Helmuth Nyborg controversy.

Methodological Envoi (2018) outlines guidelines for interdisciplinary empirical research in Scientia Danica. He actively presents at conferences on topics like axiomatics of category formation and the tension between theory-derived and ad-hoc models.