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Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs

Philosopher and psychiatrist, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg; Head of the research group “Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy”
  • Prizes & honors: 2012 Margrit Egnér Prize for Anthropological Psychology (Univ. Zurich); 2023 Erich-Fromm Prize for Humanistic Psychology
  • Books: In Defence of the Human Being (2021); Ecology of the Brain (2018)
  • Main areas of research: Phenomenological psycho-pathology and anthropology; theory of embodiment in the cognitive, neuro- and social sciences; artificial intelligence; medical and psychiatric ethics
  • Other positions: Chairman of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP); editor of the journal “Psychopathology”