Thomas Metzinger

Professor of Philosophy,
Director of the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Department of Philosophy of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Coordinator Neuroethics Section.

Adjunct Fellow,
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main.

Snail mail and campus map:

Philosophisches Seminar
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
55099 Mainz
GERMANY

Fax: ++49-6131-39-24429

Voice-Mailbox: ++49-6131-39-23279

Office Hour: Tuesday 12-13.

By appointment per e-mail during semester break:

metzinger@uni-mainz.de

Info page for The Ego Tunnel

• Research

Selected Publications
Multimedia

German Cognitive Science Society
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

VERE project
European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities

Cogito Foundation
giordano bruno stiftung
Barbara Wengeler-Stiftung

• Teaching
  

MIND Group

Information zu den neuen Studiengängen

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•   News:
  
  
  • (2012a). Zehn Jahre Neuroethik des pharmazeutischen kognitiven Enhancements – Aktuelle Probleme und Handlungsrichtlinien für die Praxis. Fortschritte der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, 80, 36-43.
    DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1282051 | Free copy is here.
    
    
  • Danish version of The Ego Tunnel is out.
    
    
  • (2011h). Treść prezentacyjna. In Anita Pacholik-Żuromska (Hrsg.), Nimiecka Analityczna: Filozofia Umysłu. Torun: Wydawnictwo Naukow Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
    
    
  • ZDFnachtstudio vom 11. September
    
    
  • Some gentle music inspired by The Ego Tunnel.
    
    
  • Metzinger, T. (2011). The No-Self-Alternative (Chapter 11). In  S. Gallagher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 279-296.
    
    
  • TED talk at TEDxRheinMain (a super-simple 18-minute talk on transparent self-models; in two parts: 1 & 2)
    
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  • Cognitive Enhancement; overview lecture on the neuroethics of cognitive enhancement. Given at the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility in Dallas, February 10, 2011 | Also on iTunes
    See also:
    Metzinger, T. & Hildt, E. (2011). Cognitive Enhancement. In J. Illes and B.J. Sahakian (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp.245-264.
    
    
  • "Spiritualität und intellektuelle Redlichkeit", Berliner Vortrag vom 27. November 2010
    (Auswahl über den Untertitel "Wahrhaftigkeit, wissenschaftliche Rationalität und das philosophische Projekt der Selbsterkenntnis")
    
    Nur Video (ohne Folien) | Nur Audio | Nur Video für iPhone | PowerPoint-Folien separat (ohne Animationen) | Transskript Vortragstext | English transcript
    
    Bessere Alternative auf YouTube (6 Teile, mit Vollbildoption plus Folien, Courtesy of David Baßler)
    
    
    
  • Sternstunde Philosophie mit Richard David Precht, zuletzt wiederholt am Sonntag, den 13. Februar 2011 auf 3sat
    
    
    
  
  
  • I have finally managed to delete my Fakebook account.
    
    
  • Issue 14 of Humana Mente has a short summary paper about self-models.
    
    
  • Mroczko, A., Metzinger, T., Singer, W. & Nikolic, D (2009). Immediate transfer of synesthesia to a novel inducer.
    Journal of Vision, 9(12): 25, 1-8. doi: 10.1167/9.12.25
    
    
  • O. Blanke & T. Metzinger (2009). Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13(1): 7-13.
    
    
  • PSYCHE: A new issue on Conscious vs. Unconscious processes and a CNCC special issue
    
    
  • Neuroethics Webportal is online! New research section: Neuroethik
    
    
  • Scholarpedia article on self models
    
    
  • A free 60-minute video sketching the self-model theory of subjectivity (SMT) here
    
    
  • Cheaper paperback version of Being No One.
    
    
  • Précis of "Being No One" : Debate:
    
    
  • More video: To Be or Not To Be: The Self as Illusion ("Perspectives on the Self: Conversations on Identity & Consciousness ") at the New York Academy of Sciences). Audio fun stuff at All in the Mind, presented by Natasha Mitchell - see also New Scientist and even more new audio at the Brain Science Podcast with Dr. Ginger Campbell Also on iTunes! More distraction? A Conversation with the First Artificial Fellow,and more at Edge.
    
    
  • Short CV for journalists.