| 12. 3. 1958 | Born in Frankfurt am Main. |
| 1964 - 1968 | Riedhofschule Frankfurt am Main. |
| 1968 - 1977 | Goethe-Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main. A-level Latin; bilingual branch; High-level courses: Biology / English. |
| From SS 1978 onwards | Studies in philosophy, ethnology and theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. |
| SS 1982 | M.A. in philosophy. Topic of treatise: "Rationalismus und Mystik". Afterwards I started working on my doctorate as a graduate student, supported by a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. |
| SS 1985 | I graduated and took my Ph.D. from Frankfurt University. Topic of dissertation: "Neuere Beiträge zur Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems". |
| Fall 1985 | Teaching assignment on the European Campus of the University of Maryland at Gießen. Course topic: "Contemporary Moral Issues". |
| SS 1986 - SS 1987 | A series of teaching assignments and lectureships at the Department of Philosophy in Frankfurt. |
| Since 1.8. 1987 | Teaching assistant at the Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science at the University of Gießen. Teaching assignments and lectureships at the universities of Gießen, Frankfurt and Oldenburg. |
| 13. 10. 1992 | Appointment as "Hochschulassistent" (C 1) and public servant on time. |
| 25. 11. 1992 | Habilitation for philosophy, awarded by the dean of the faculty of history of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. |
| 20. 1. 1993 | Appointment as university lecturer by the dean of the faculty of history of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. |
| WS 1995 | Substitution for the professorial chair of Martin Lang at the department of philosophy of the University of Osnabrück. |
| SS 1996 | Substitution for the professorial chair of Georg Meggle at the department of philosophy of the University of Saarbrücken. |
| WS 1996/97 | Substitution for the professorial chair of Georg Meggle at the department of philosophy of the University of Saarbrücken. |
| April 1997 - October 1998 | Fellow at the newly founded Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Bremen-Delmenhorst. |
| October 1998 - October 1999 | Visiting Scholar at the UCSD philosophy department. |
| October 1999 - April 2000 | Substitution for the professorial chair of Vittorio Hösle at the department of philosophy of the University of Essen. |
| Since April 2000 | International Programme in Cognitive Science, Institute for Semantic Information Processing / Department of Philosophy, University of Osnabrück |
Areas of special interest:
Analytical philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophical aspects of the neuro- and cognitive sciences; philosophy of science and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence and related fields; connections between ethics, philosophy of mind and anthropology; applied ethics of the neuro- and cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence and computer science.
Organizations:
Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland
Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft
Since 1995 I have been a Board Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
In 1998 I was the principal organizer for the second international conference of the ASSC ("Neural Correlates of Consciousness - Empirical and Conceptual Questions"), which took place from June 19 -22 in Bremen, Germany. A book under the same title, which will contain selected publications from the conference, is forthcoming with MIT press.
You can still download the full ASSC 2 - program by clicking here.
You can still download the full ASSC 3 by clicking here.
You can still download the full ASSC 4 by clicking here.
Last update: July 12, 2000.