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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, he is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies 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 is a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College.

Self Paced

Complete this seminar and earn 100 GCASY Tokens. Publish your research findings from the seminar in The GCAS Review and earn 500 more tokens.

Description:

Rocky Gangle and Fernando Tohmé provide a guide to Thomas Metzinger's important contemporary text bridging philosophy of mind, neurobiology, cognitive studies and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Lecture 1 Thomas Metzinger guest lecture [Introduction]

Lecture 2 Introduction by Gangle/Tohmé

Lecture 3 Chapters 1-2

Lecture 4 Chapter 3-4

Lecture 5 Chapter 5-8

Participants will have 30 days to complete this seminar.

Professors

Rocco Gangle is Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College. He is the author of Francois Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP 2013) and Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (EUP 2016), co-author of Iconicity and Abduction (Springer 2017) and co-editor of Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities (Rowman and Littlefield 2017). His research focuses on semiotics, diagrammatic logic, metaphysics and political philosophy.

Fernando Tohmé, PhD Fernando Tohmé, PhD is a Principal Researcher of CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina) and Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics (under the late Rolf Mantel). A former Fulbright Scholar he held visiting positions at U.C. Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis and Endicott College. His research has focused on decision problems, game theory and optimization in socio-economic settings. He is currently working on a category-theoretical reformulation of game theory. Tohmé has been the thesis advisor of more than fifteen doctoral students in Economics, Engineering and Mathematics. He has published research articles in peer-reviewed journals like Theory and Decision, Mathematics of Social Sciences, Journal of Applied Logic, Physica A, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and Computational Modeling, and Annals of Operations Research among others.