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Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
Jefferson Memorial Lectures
Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture
Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture
Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade
October 12, 2004
UC Berkeley Campus
Thomas Metzinger is the Director of the Philosophy Group at the Department of Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, especially on consciousness and the nature of the self. In this lecture he develops a representationalist theory of phenomenal self-consciousness.
Thomas Metzinger is the Director of the Philosophy Group at the Department of Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. He also is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and has served as a full professor since 2000. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, especially on consciousness and the nature of the self. Metzinger’s research engages philosophical aspects of empirical theories in the neuro-and cognitive sciences, and artificial intelligence. He also studies ethics, especially conceptual connections between applied ethics, the philosophy of the mind, and anthropology.