Prof. Dr. Stephan Sellmaier

GSN secretary

LMU BioCenter
Department Biology II Neurobiology
Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences
Großhaderner Straße 2
82152 Planegg-Martinsried

GSN office: B00.070B
Email: gsn@lmu.de
Tel.: +49 89 2180-74178

Personal information

Stephan Sellmaier is head of the Research Center for Neurophilosophy and Ethics of Neurosciences, which is a bridge between philosophy and the Munich Center for Neurosciences - Brain and Mind (MCN). Research here focuses on the philosophical implications of empirical results in the cognitive sciences and neurosciences. He researches and teaches on questions of philosophical action theory (mental causation, free will, control over actions), philosophy of science (with regard to the neurosciences), and neuroethics.

Curriculum vitae

Selected publications

1. M. W. Carstensen, S. Sellmaier, P. C. J. Taylor, O. Deroy: Dualists and physicalists agree, free will is incompatible with determinism. In: Philosophical Psycholgy 2023.
2. S. Drosselmeier, S. Sellmaier: Skilled Action and the Ethics of Neuroprosthetics. In: O. Friedrich, A. Wolkenstein, C. Bublitz, RJ. Jox, E. Racine (eds.): Clinical Neuroethics Meets Artificial Intelligence - Philosophical, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications. Heidelberg: Springer 2021.
3. S. Sellmaier: Ethik der Konflikte. Über den moralisch angemessenen Umgang mit ethischem Dissens und moralischen Dilemmata. Second revised edition. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2011.
4. S. Sellmaier, E. Mayr (eds.): Normativität, Geltung und Verpflichtung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2011.
5. S. Sellmaier: Langfristiges Entscheiden. Eine Grundlagenuntersuchung zur Entscheidungstheorie. Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2007.
6. S. Sellmaier: Was beweisen Benjamin Libets Experimente zur Willensfreiheit? In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 2. Halbband, 2007.
7. S. Sellmaier: Entscheidungskonflikte der reflexiven Moderne: Uneindeutigkeit und Ahnungslosigkeit. In: Ulrich Beck, Christoph Lau (eds.) Entgrenzung und Entscheidung: Was ist neu an der Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004, 149-164.
8. S. Sellmaier, W. Vossenkuhl: Moralische Ansprüche von Patienten und die Allokation von Spenderorganen. In: Fuat Oduncu, Ulrich Schroth, Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.) Transplantation. Organgewinnung und –allokation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2003, 131-145.
9. S. Sellmaier: Logische Satzanalyse und die allgemeine Satzform. In: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2001, 179-207.

Academic distinctions

• 1996 - 1998 Doctoral studies funded by a scholarship from LMU Munich

Research projects

Doctoral students

See PhD projects at the Research Center for Neurophilosophy and Ethics of Neurosciences.

Externally funded projects

• 2018 - 2022 VW Stiftung: Philosophie und Praxis. Teilprojekt Neurophilosophie Gewonnene Autonomie? Normative Herausforderungen der Neuroprothetik.

Teaching

Prof. Sellmaier's current courses can be found on LSF.

If you wish to write a thesis (BA or MA) under Prof. Sellmaier's supervision, please contact him by e-mail, including a few sentences outlining the planned thesis topic, in order to arrange an appointment.

Other activities

• Member of the Munich Center for Neurosciences - Brain and Mind (MCN)
• Scientific Board member, Graduate School for Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU)
• Member of the Ethics Committee, Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies