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Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel Philosopher, international speaker & bestselling author

Markus Gabriel, born in 1980, studied in Bonn, Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. He is one of the world's most prominent representatives of New Realism in philosophy, which is an essential factor in his current project of a New Enlightenment. At the age of only 29, he became the youngest full professor of philosophy in . Since 2009, he has held the Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, and is Director of the International Center for Philosophy. He is also Director of the Center for Science and Thought, which pursues interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and the natural sciences in order to find productive and sustainable solutions to the most pressing questions of our time. He has held visiting professorships in Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and the United States. Since 2020, he has been Distinguished Lecturer in Philosophy and the New Humanities at the New School for Social Research in , where he is building a new institute with colleagues from a variety of disciplines. In 2021, he will become a fellow at The New Institute in , where he will conduct research on issues related to practical philosophy (with a focus on value theory, i.e. ethics and political philosophy in an applied context). His best-selling books "Why the World Doesn't Exist," "I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century," "The Meaning of Thought," and "Moral Progress in Dark Times. Universal Values for the 21st Century" have appeared in numerous countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and the United States. He loves to make philosophy understandable to all, and is rarely found in one place. Personal encounters are his favorite, along with Zoom and Signal. He believes in the bright light of a new enlightenment and in our ability to make this world a better place with the help of the conceptual tools of philosophy and the humanities.

With insight and empathy, he inspires his audience as a speaker. Markus Gabriel literally rethinks reality with us and - quite incidentally - delivers a crash course in philosophy. This is exciting, fun and takes place at eye level with reality. Because nothing is too banal or too far-fetched, everything is allowed. In this way, even complex issues become vivid and tangible.

"The thinker of the hour."

"One of the most important contemporary German philosophers." Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Markus Gabriel is a speculative prodigy." Neue Züricher Zeitung

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Personal Website of Markus Gabriel SPIEGEL Bestseller published by Ullstein Verlag

Keywords: creativity, digitalization, diversity, ethics, future, innovation, inspiration, learning, philosophy, science, society, sustainability

Lecture titles (selection): • Why do we need A.I. ethics? • What, actually, is A.I.? • Moral Progress in Dark Times - For a New Enlightenment! • Why the world does not exist • I am not a brain - The human being as a spiritual living being • Why free will really exists and we are not machines

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

Types of presentations: keynote speeches, dinner speeches / fireside chats, moderation, panel participation, workshops

Ethic consulting: Markus Gabriel offers future-oriented ethics consulting for companies. He examines concrete cases in corporate processes with regard to ethical issues, and explains how to argue ethically in order to apply new ethical principles that can be used to create sustainable value chains. The intention is to make ethics applicable as cooperation, in order to replace the widespread and pointless model of ethics that justifies already made business decisions only post hoc. Markus Gabriel calls this concept "ethics in and by design".

Presentations (selection): Neuroscience of Consciousness, Panel with Raymond Tallis, Susana Martinez Conde and Markus Gabriel, The Institute of Arts and Ideas, 24.05.2019

Truth and Beauty, Panel with Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder and Markus Gabriel, The Institute of Arts and Ideas, 29.10.2018

The Nature of Our Values, TEDxBerlinSalon, 01.08.2017

Why the world does not exist, TEDxMünchen, 25.10.2013

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TV Appearances (selection): Philosophy for the Age of Desire (a Japanese TV series with Markus Gabriel), NHK 2020

Print / Online (selection): Who decides what constitutes reality? A fluent philosophical attack on the hubris of science, , Oct 30 2015

Why the World Does Not Exist review: A pop philosopher on our very being, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 14 2015

Why the world does not exist but unicorns do, Interview with Markus Gabriel, 3:AM MAGAZIN, May 10 2015

Not Just A Brain In a Non Existent World, Interview with Markus Gabriel, The Ransom Note

Books (selection): The Meaning of Thought (Polity 2020)

The Power of Art (Polity 2020)

The Limits of Epistemology (Polity 2020)

Neo-Existentialism (Polity 2018)

I am not a Brain (Polity 2017)

Why The World Does Not Exist (Polity 2015)

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