Thomas Metzinger

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Thomas Metzinger
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Metzinger in 2022
Born (1958-03-12) 12 March 1958 (age 65)
Education Goethe University Frankfurt
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions University of Giessen
University of Osnabruck
University of Mainz
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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. As of 2011, 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.

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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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