Thomas Metzinger

Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Author, The Ego Tunnel

THOMAS METZINGER is Professor of Philosophy and director of the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Widely considered to be the foremost European philosopher of mind, he is the author of three books, most recently The Ego Tunnel, and the editor of a number of collections of essays and papers, including Conscious Experience; and Neural Correlates of Consciousness.

In addition to cognition and selfhood, his research interests include ethics, particularly the conceptual connections between applied ethics, the philosophy of mind, and anthropology.

 
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