Thomas Metzinger



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 Being No One: the Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, 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.)