Thomas Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8644-1875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The feeling of being alive
The feeling of being alive points to an intricate connection between the organic process of life and foundational subjective experience, or between life and experience (Leben and Erleben). Based on this premise, I argue that self-experience cannot be understood as an internal mental space or a “self-model” that could be produced and localized in the brain, but rather that it is a manifestation of the life of the organism as a whole. I first exami…
Mourning as a ground attunement
For Real?—Epistemic Trust Within Online Environments and the Lures of Conspiracy Thinking
This paper examines how interactions within online environments affect the experience of shared reality by eroding trust. Trust has often been described as the ‘glue’ of society, essential not only for personal relationships, groups, and institutions but also for the very fabric of shared reality. One of its forms, epistemic trust, is of particular importance as it concerns the acquisition, acceptance, and establishment of shared knowledge, as we…
Einer KI geht es um nichts. Bildung und Verkörperung im digitalen Zeitalter
Steps to an EnvironMental health
This paper introduces "EnvironMentalism," a novel theoretical framework that foregrounds the constitutive role of material environments in shaping mental health and illness. Drawing on principles from Material Engagement Theory and situated cognition, we argue that mental disorders—exemplified by schizophrenia—cannot be fully understood without considering the dynamic and reciprocal interactions between brain, body, and the affordances of the sur…
Markus Bußmann/Winfried Baumgart (Hg.)
Björn Hofmeister
Andreas Stegmann
Hassan Soilihi Mzé
Walter Höflechner/Alexandra Wagner/Gerit Koitz-Arko/Sylvia Kowatsch
Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek/Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv (Hg.)
Philip Ajouri/Julia Bangert/Gerhard Lauer/Nikolaus Weichselbaumer (Hg. im Auftrag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft)
Jens Kunze (Bearb.)
Madeleine Brook/Stefanie Hundehege/Caroline Jessen (Hg.)
Cracks in the pattern
The contemporary debate on selfhood in philosophy, psychiatry, and cognitive science unfolds most often between two opposing tendencies: reductionism, seeking to identify a fundamental and minimal core of selfhood, and eliminativism, denying the existence of the self. Shaun Gallagher's Pattern Theory of the Self (PTS) has emerged as a promising alternative approach. By defining the self as a dynamical gestalt composed of heterogeneous elements an…
Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia
A mental illness can lead to a distortion in a person's capacity to engage with the world and other people in a variety of ways. This is particularly relevant to schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which are not only historically linked, but also overlap clinically in several respects. From a phenomenological point of view, the differences or similarities between both disorders have not yet been sufficiently investigated. Schizophre…
Vitale Verkörperung und die Grenzen des Extended Mind
The Sense of Self and Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is typically conceptualized as a disturbance of self-experience. Recent dimensional shift in diagnosis validates the need for conceptual clarity and nuanced understanding of self-impairments. However, these impairments are often examined in isolation from relational contexts, resulting in overly static depictions. A phenomenological approach, focusing on lived experience, offers deeper insight into how self, …
Sigrid Oehler-Klein (Bearb.)
Bernhard Fischer/Claudia Taszus (Hg.)
Encarnación y relación. Para un humanismo contemporáneo
En la medida en que miramos hacia atrs en la historia, encontramos una y otra vez que la visin del ser humano sobre s mismo est marcada por una profunda ambivalencia."Muchos son los monstruos; pero nada hay ms monstruoso que el hombre" es la famosa frase de la Antgona de Sfocles, que ya encierra esta ambivalencia: monstruoso, en griego deins
Eberhard Fritz (Hg.)
Viola Hildebrand-Schat im Auftrag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen in München (Hg.)
Uwe Jochum/Bernhard Lübbers/Armin Schlechter/Bettina Wagner (Hg.)
Philip Ajouri/Julia Bangert/Gerhard Lauer/Nikolaus Weichselbaumer (Hg. im Auftrag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft)
Randzonen der Erfahrung
Leib, Raum, Zeit und Intersubjektivität gehören zu den zentralen Themen der Phänomenologie sowie der phänomenologischen Psychopathologie und werden im vorliegenden Band umfangreich dargestellt. Nach einer einleitenden Übersicht widmen sich vier Kapitel diesen Themen, sowohl in allgemeiner phänomenologischer Hinsicht als auch unter Berücksichtigung der Psychopathologie der Depression, der Schizophrenie, der Borderline-Störung, der Demenz und des A…
Interactive coordination of currently depressed inpatient mothers and their infants during the postpartum period
In healthy mother–infant dyads, interactions are characterized by a pattern of matching and mismatching interactive states with quick reparation of mismatches into matches. In contrast, dyads in which mothers have postpartum depression show impaired mother–infant interaction patterns over the first few months of the infant's life. The majority of studies that have examined such interaction patterns have drawn on community samples rather than on d…
Macht Euch die Stadt zum Bilde!
Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit
Kurz nach der Grenzöffnung im Herbst 1989 kam es zu ersten Begegnungen zwischen Wissenschaftlern und Lehrenden der damaligen Sektion Gebietsplanung und Städtebau (heute Fachbereich Architektur, Stadt- und Regionalplanung) der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen (HAB) Weimar und des Fachbereiches Stadt- und Landschaftsplanung der Gesamthochschule Kassel. Während dieser ersten wissenschaftlichen Kontakte entstand die Idee, den Ausgangspunkt räu…
Psychopathologie von Leib und Raum
Psychische Krankheit wird in dieser Arbeit als Störung einer Beziehung zwischen Person und Welt aufgefasst, die wesentlich durch den Leib und den Raum vermittelt ist. Diese Beziehung lässt sich phänomenologisch adäquater beschreiben, wenn der Erlebnisraum in verschiedene Modalitäten differenziert wird: in den Leibraum, den Richtungs-, den Stimmungs-, den personalen und den Lebensraum. Diese Anthropologie von Leib und Raum dient als Basis zum eine…
Das Ringen mit der Tradition. Die Kritik an Kirche und Religion in der Historiographie der Aufklärungsepoche
The European China-Receptions From Leibniz To Kant
What accounts for international differences in student performance? A re-examination using Pisa data
Interactive coordination of currently depressed inpatient mothers and their infants during the postpartum period
In healthy mother–infant dyads, interactions are characterized by a pattern of matching and mismatching interactive states with quick reparation of mismatches into matches. In contrast, dyads in which mothers have postpartum depression show impaired mother–infant interaction patterns over the first few months of the infant's life. The majority of studies that have examined such interaction patterns have drawn on community samples rather than on d…
Body memory, metaphor and movement
Chapter 1. The phenomenology of body memory
Memory comprises not only one’s explicit recollections of the past, but also the acquired dispositions, skills, and habits that implicitly influence one’s present experience and behavior. This implicit memory is based on the habitual structure of the lived body, which connects us to the world through its operative intentionality. The memory of the body appears in different forms, which are classified as procedural, situational, intercorporeal, in…
Grenzen der Empathie
Temporality and psychopathology
Karl Jaspers' Philosophy and Psychopathology
Macht Euch Die Stadt Zum Bilde!
Embodied affectivity
There is a growing body of research indicating that bodily sensation and behavior strongly influences one's emotional reaction toward certain situations or objects. On this background, a framework model of embodied affectivity is suggested: we regard emotions as resulting from the circular interaction between affective qualities or affordances in the environment and the subject's bodily resonance, be it in the form of sensations, postures, expres…
Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology
How much of mental illness is in the brain? The mind? Why does it matter? A century after his groundbreaking General Psychopathology, the work of Karl Jaspers remains relevant and timely. Then, as now, advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing psychology, resulting in a precarious balance between brain and mind. The papers in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology revisit Jaspers' ideas and methods in light of contemporary thinking and o…
Max Scheler’s influence on Kurt Schneider
Kurt Schneider (1887–1967) met Max Scheler (1874–1928) in 1919 when he enrolled in the latter’s philosophy seminars at the University of Cologne. Kurt Schneider was then a junior psychiatrist and Max Scheler a renowned philosophy professor and co-founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. We uncover the facts about their intellectual and personal relationship, summarize the main articles and books that they wrote and consider whether…
Ecology of the Brain
Overcoming the brain centrism of current neuroscience, Ecology of the Brain develops an ecological and embodied concept of the brain as a mediating or resonance organ. Accordingly, the mind is not a product of the brain: it is an activity of the living being as a whole, which integrates the brain in its superordinate life functions. Similarly, consciousness is not an inner domain located somewhere within the organism, but a continuous process of …
Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture
Recent accounts of cognition attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional cognitive science by reconceiving cognition as enactive and the cognizer as an embodied being who is embedded in biological, psychologial, and cultural contexts. Cultural forms of sense-making constitute the shared world, which in turn is the origin and place of cognition. This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection on the cultural context of embodiment, off…
Verkörperung - eine Neue Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
"Das gegenwärtig zunehmende Auseinanderdriften von Kulturwissenschaft und Humanbiologie verdeutlicht das noch immer bestehende Desiderat einer integrativen Anthropologie, die dualistische ebenso wie reduktionistische Konzeptionen zu überwinden vermag. Der vorliegende Band, hervorgegangen aus einer interdisziplinären Projektgruppe an der Universität Heidelberg, lotet aus, welche Rolle das neue Paradigma der Verkörperung für die Fundierung einer so…
Body Memory of Pain and Trauma
At first sight, pain seems to be an unhistorical phenomenon: in its intrusive nagging presence, nothing refers to the past, and to remember one's pain is only possible in an abstract sense. However, one's individual sensitivity as well as one's relation to pain are shaped biographically, even though we usually are not aware of this: pains are inscribed into body memory and thus unfold a lasting impact. The memory of the subject may thus also be c…
Commentary on Schermer’s review of ‘Ecology of the Brain’
Warum gibt es psychische Krankheit
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrags zu Grundlagen der psychiatrischen Anthropologie steht die spezifische Vulnerabilität der psychischen Organisation des Menschen. Diese wird anhand von zwei Leitfragen untersucht, die sich auf die Entgleisungsmöglichkeiten der psychischen Struktur und auf problematische und überfordernde Bedingungen der menschlichen Existenz beziehen. Als wichtige Komponenten dieser Vulnerabilität werden die besondere Offenheit, Unges…
Randzonen der Erfahrung
Leib, Raum, Zeit und Intersubjektivität gehören zu den zentralen Themen der Phänomenologie sowie der phänomenologischen Psychopathologie und werden im vorliegenden Band umfangreich dargestellt. Nach einer einleitenden Übersicht widmen sich vier Kapitel diesen Themen, sowohl in allgemeiner phänomenologischer Hinsicht als auch unter Berücksichtigung der Psychopathologie der Depression, der Schizophrenie, der Borderline-Störung, der Demenz und des A…
Fragmentierte Zeitlichkeit Ein phänomenologisches Modell der Schizophrenie
The variety of symptoms associated with schizophrenia are not easily unified under one coherent concept. Nevertheless, under the gaze of phenomenology, a disturbance of pre-reflexive experience has become increasingly apparent as the basis of the condition, which has so far been understood in two different ways: on the one hand, as a disturbance of basal self-experience, of my-ness or ipseity (Louis Sass, Josef Parnas, Dan Zahavi) and on the othe…
Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the Covid-19 pandemic
Our data emphasize that a previously reported rise in psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic does not coincide with increased SVSA rates or changes in quality of SVSAs
Philosophy (19 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Context (archaeology) (7 works) · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Cognitive science (6 works)