Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Philosophy and director of the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Widely considered to be the foremost European philosopher of mind, he is the author of three books, most recently Being No One: the Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, released in March of 2003 from MIT Press, and the editor of a number of collections of essays and papers, including Conscious Experience. In addition to cognition and selfhood, his research interests include ethics, particularly the conceptual connections between applied ethics, the philosophy of mind, and anthropology.)