Thomas Fuchs

Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, Germany.

His main areas of expertise include phenomenological philosophy and psychopathology as well as embodied and enactive cognitive science, with a particular emphasis on non-representational, interactive concepts of social cognition. He was Coordinator of several large national and international grants, among them the European Research Training Network “Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity” (TESIS). He has published extensively and influenced with an interdisciplinary approach, combining phenomenology, psychology, psychiatry, cultural and life sciences, which mean that he conveys a broad picture of what it means to be human in our time.