University of Giessen University of Osnabruck University of Mainz
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Cognitive science
Neurophilosophy
Applied ethics
Notable ideas
Phenomenal Self model (PSM)
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Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. As of 2011[update], he is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 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. From 2018 to 2020, Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In 2022 he was elected into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Metzinger is a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, where he was a member of the board from 1995 to 2008, and the president from 2009 to 2011.[1] From 2005 to 2007 he was president of the German Cognitive Science Society. In 2019 he founded the MPE project
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In 2021, German philosopher ThomasMetzinger argued for a global moratorium on synthetic phenomenology until 2050. Metzinger asserts that humans have a...
population, and allow people to perform helpful interventions in nature. ThomasMetzinger, Sander Beckers, and Bartłomiej Chomański argue against trying to create...
Elliott Ingersoll and Cecile Brennan, in Eriksen, McAuliffe 2001, p.336. ThomasMetzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self....
Integrated information theory. Edelman notes one exception had been ThomasMetzinger, who in 2018 called for a global moratorium on further work that risked...
Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti, the worldview presented in Ecclesiastes, and the works of philosopher ThomasMetzinger. Benatar posits that there...
"seductive error" contradicting the original definition of a zombie. ThomasMetzinger dismisses the argument as no longer relevant to the consciousness community...
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Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-515495-9 ThomasMetzinger. Suffering.In Kurt Almqvist & Anders Haag (2017)[eds.], The Return...
Meillassoux, he is also heavily influenced by the likes of Paul Churchland, ThomasMetzinger and Stephen Jay Gould. He also draws heavily, albeit often negatively...
Colin (1995). "Consciousness and Space," In Conscious Experience, ThomasMetzinger (ed.), Imprint Academic. Mead, George Herbert (1938). "Mediate Factors...
thinkers such as Alain Badiou, François Laruelle, Paul Churchland and ThomasMetzinger, Brassier defends a view of the world as inherently devoid of meaning...
even going back as far as John Locke. C. D. Broad, Herbert Feigl, and Thomas Nagel, over a fifty-year span, presented insight to the subject. Broad makes...
Banks, George Buckner, David Chalmers, Stanley Klein, Bruce Mangan, ThomasMetzinger, David Rosenthal, and Patrick Wilken. Since 1994, the organization...
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future" then the suffering cannot be outweighed by any happiness. ThomasMetzinger proposes the "principle of negative utilitarianism", which is the broad...
or Dancing Qualia", Published in Conscious Experience, Edited by ThomasMetzinger. Imprint Academic, 1995. Dennett, Daniel; commentary on T. Moody, O...
This is a descriptive list of erotic etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume...
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