Biographie

Wrote under the pen name Pascal Mercier.

Received his doctoral degree from Heidelberg University in 1971.

Taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In 1983 he started work at the University of Bielefeld and later he worked as a scientific assistant at the Philosophical Seminar at University of Heidelberg.

From 1990 to 1993 he was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Marburg.

Co-founded the research unit for Cognition and Brain studies at the German Research Foundation. The focuses of his research were the philosophy of mind, epistemology and ethics.