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Thomas Metzinger

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Thomas Metzinger
Metzinger in 2022
Born (1958-03-12) 12 March 1958 (age 66)
EducationGoethe University Frankfurt
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Giessen
University of Osnabruck
University of Mainz
Main interests
Notable ideas
Phenomenal Self model (PSM)

Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

Metzinger is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies,[1] a co-founder of the German Effective Altruism Foundation, president of the Barbara Wengeler Foundation, and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the MIND Foundation. From 2008 to 2009, he served as a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; from 2014 to 2019, he was a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College; from 2019 to 2022, he was awarded a Senior-Forschungsprofessur by the Ministry of Science, Education and Culture.[2] From 2018 to 2020, Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.[3] In 2022 he was elected into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[4]

Metzinger is a cofounder of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,[5] of which he has been a board and committee member, and was the 2010 president.[6] From 2005 to 2007 he was president of the German Cognitive Science Society. In 2019 he founded the MPE project.

Bibliography

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Monographs
  • (1985) Neuere Beiträge zur Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8204-8927-4
  • (1993) Subjekt und Selbstmodell. Die Perspektivität phänomenalen Bewußtseins vor dem Hintergrund einer naturalistischen Theorie mentaler Repräsentation. mentis, Paderborn, ISBN 3-89785-081-8
  • (2003) Being No One. The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts., ISBN 0-262-13417-9 (Hardcover)/ISBN 0262633086 (Paperback)
  • (2009) The Ego Tunnel - The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self Basic Books, New York, ISBN 0-465-04567-7
  • (2009) Der Ego-Tunnel - Eine neue Philosophie des Selbst: Von der Hirnforschung zur Bewusstseinsethik Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-8270-0630-9
  • (2010) Der Ego Tunnel. Eine neue Philosophie des Selbst: Von der Hirnforschung zur Bewusstseinsethik. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. eBook ISBN 978-3-8270-7037-1
  • (2011) Being No One. The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Kindle edition; ASIN: B004ELBJ56
  • (2023) Bewusstseinskultur - Spiritualität, intellektuelle Redlichkeit und die planetare Krise. Berlin, Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-1488-7
  • (2023) Der Elefant und die Blinden. Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8270-1487-0
  • (2024) The Elephant and the Blind. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press ISBN 978-0-2625-4710-9
Editorship

References

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  1. ^ "Fellows". Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Archiv von Mitteilungen des Philosophischen Seminars | Philosophisches Seminar". Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (in German). Archived from the original on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024. Die Seniorforschungsprofessur hat eine Laufzeit von drei Jahren (bis zum 31.03.2022). [The senior research professorship has a term of three years (until March 31, 2022).]
  3. ^ "AI HLEG - steering group of the European AI Alliance". European Commission. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  4. ^ "List of Members | Thomas Metzinger". National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  5. ^ "Prof. Thomas Metzinger". Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Past Leadership". Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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