Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Thomas Metzinger |
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Thomas Metzinger currently is Professor of Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He also serves as President of the German Cognitive Science Society, as a founding board member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, is a former senior member of the McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, as well as Head of the MIND-Group and an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. He studied philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, where he also received his Ph.D. Metzinger was awarded his habilitation at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1993. Since then he has taught at eight German universities, and spent a year each at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst and at the University of California at San Diego.
Metzinger's research focus lies in analytical philosophy of mind, with a strong interdisciplinary focus including the philosophy of science and philosophical aspects of the neuro- and cognitive sciences, of artificial intelligence and related fields; but also connections between ethics, philosophy of mind and anthropology. This also involves developing an applied ethics for the neuro- and cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence ["neuroethics"], and neuroanthropology. Thomas Metzinger has published numerous articles and three monographs, the most important of which is "Being No One – The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity" [MIT Press, 2003]. He has also edited well-known collections about conscious experience and the neural correlates of consciousness and a three-volume textbook in philosophy of mind, the first volume of which has recently appeared. |
