François Kammerer

I am a French philosopher of mind. I am currently a postdoc at the Institute for Philosophy of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

My research mostly focuses on phenomenal consciousness. I defend an illusionist conception of phenomenal consciousness: in my view, it introspectively seems to us that we are phenomenally conscious, but we are not. Such a conception raises all kinds of difficult and fascinating issues, from a metaphysical, psychological, epistemological and moral perspective – which I explore in my work.

I am also interested in other questions related to consciousness and introspection, and more generally in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and metaphysics. Outside of illusionism, I have defended a few other counter-intuitive (but correct) views: for example, the view that certain uses of technology could make us become more genuine selves, or the view that phenomenal overflow is not intuitive for naïve subjects.

I received training in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (MA, 2011) and at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (PhD, 2016). After my PhD, I held positions as a lecturer in Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure/Institut Jean Nicod) and as a postdoctoral research fellow in Belgium (Université catholique de Louvain/FNRS), Germany (Ruhr-Universität Bochum/Humboldt Foundation) and the United States (New York University)

Website: francoiskammerer.com