Stephan Schleim

Stephan Schleim (born March 8, 1980 in Wiesbaden ) is a German philosopher and psychologist . He is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands . His specialties are the theory and practical applications of psychology and neuroscience . In his research on science communication, he examines how representations of brain research influence academic and social debates (e.g. in neuroethics or neuro law).

Life

Stephan Schleim studied philosophy, computer science , psychology and economics at the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt am Main from 2000 to 2005 . For the preparation of his master's thesis on the problem of mental causation , he received a grant from the Senate of the University of Mainz.

After staying at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the California Institute of Technology , Stephan Schleim began his research on the neuroscience of morality in Henrik Walter's laboratory at the university hospitals in Frankfurt and Bonn. His empirical and philosophical doctoral thesis entitled Norms and the brain: an investigation into the neuroscience of ethical decisions and the ethics of neuroscience ( Dissertation # Cumulative Dissertation ) was accepted by the Human Sciences Department at the University of Osnabrück in 2009 and in 2010 with the Barbara Wengeler dissertation prize Foundation awarded.

He then went to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he was employed at the Gerard Heymans Institute for Psychology, first as a postdoc and since 2010 as Assistant Professor of Theory and History of Psychology. In the winter semester 2012/2013 he represented the newly created professorship for neurophilosophy at the University of Munich . He teaches university and popular science courses in philosophy, psychology, neuroethics, neuro law and philosophy of science .

Stephan Schleim has been writing popular scientific texts since 2005, mainly about advances and discoveries in neuroscience. Among other things, he published in c't , Brain & Mind , Psychology Today , Spectrum of Science , Technology Review and Telepolis .

In 2007 he became blogger of the blog portal SciLogs of the Spektrum Verlag ; Since then he has been writing about philosophy, psychology and brain research in his blog Menschen-Bilder . From 2012 he was represented with the blog Psychophilosophy in the English-language SciLogs .

Publications

• Mind reading: pioneering work in brain research. Heise, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-936931-48-8 .
• Stephan Schleim, Tade M. Spranger, Henrik Walter (eds.): From neuroethics to neuro law? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-40414-0 .
• Norms and the brain: an investigation into the neuroscience of ethical decisions and the ethics of neuroscience. Dissertation. Osnabrück 2009. ( online ; PDF; 416 kB)
• The neuro-society: How brain research challenges law and morality. Heise, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-936931-67-9 .
• What are mental disorders? Basic questions, social challenges, alternatives to biology. Heise, Hannover 2018, ISBN 978-3-95788-170-0 .
• Psyche & Mental Health: Philosophers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Conversation. Heise, Hannover 2020, ISBN 978-3-95788-230-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Schleim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage
• List of publications on the website of the University of Groningen
• Stephan Schleims SciLogs -Blog: People-Pictures (Blog)
• The psychologist and philosopher Stephan Schleim in conversation with Michael Langer. Intermediate tones , Deutschlandfunk from August 6, 2017 (mp3)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dr. S. (Stephan) Schleim, MA - How to find us - About us - University of Groningen .
2. ↑ press release . Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 30, 2012. 
3. ↑ philosophie.uni-muenchen.de .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ See blogs in the web links.