Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and professor 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. 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.[1][2]
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Thomas Metzinger | |
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Born | (1958-03-12) 12 March 1958 (age 64) Frankfurt, West Germany |
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) |
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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 the president from 2009 to 2011.[3]
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