I currently work as Director of Research at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR} (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). Beside this, I am an Affiliate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and an external member of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Magdeburg, where I was Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy between 2016 and 2024. I teach irregularly at the Hochschule Kaiserslautern in its Department „Building and Design“.

My publications are mainly in philosophy of mind where it intersects with philosophy of science, epistemology, perception, metaphysics, empirical sciences, engineering, and medicine (see my Google Scholar page here).

I serve as an Editor-in-Chief of the independent, cost-free, diamond open-access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences since its foundation in 2019. PhiMiSci has been funded by the DFG and recently achieved an impact factor comparable to established journals like „Philosophy of Science“ (0.77/h=15). To increase the outreach of academic philosophy, I have produced several interviews with German analytic philosophers for the Youtube channel of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Research Projects:

  • DFG/AHRC-funded project SENSOR “Sensory Engineering: Investigating Altered and Guided Perception and Hallucination” (with the Center for the Study of Perceptual Experiences at the University of Glasgow);
  • BMBF/DLR-funded project „PsychedELSI: Ethische, legale und soziale Implikationen der Neuropsychopharmakologie in der Psychotherapie – Vorbereitung auf die psychedelische Renaissance“;
  • EU ERANET NEURON-funded project PSYTRANS (on psychedelic transformation);
  • EU ERANET NEURON COMPAIN (on complex pain ontologies);
  • DFG-Project “Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci). Konsolidierung einer wissenschaftlichen Open-Access-Zeitschrift”.
  • Previously, I was a PI in the DFG-funded research training group Extrospection: External Access to Higher Cognitive Processes (2019–2023).

Recent Publications:

  • Fink, S. B., & Ashby, B. (2025). Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, 25(3), 69-71. LINK
  • Kirkeby-Hinrup, A., Fink, S. B., & Overgaard, M. S. (2025). The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf035. LINK
  • Fink, S. B. (2024). How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1352272. LINK
  • Fink, S.B. (2024). On Acid Empiricism. In: Lovering, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65790-0_12 LINK
  • Repantis, D., Koslowski, M. & Fink, S.B. Ethische Aspekte der Therapie mit Psychedelika. Psychotherapie 69, 115–121 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-024-00710-z LINK
  • Fink S.B-., & Kob, L. (2023). Can structuralist theories be general theories of consciousness?. In Conscious and Unconscious Mentality (pp. 112-129). Routledge. LINK

TOP 3 Articles

  • Fink, S. B. (2016). A deeper look at the “neural correlate of consciousness”. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1044. LINK
  • Fink, S. B., Kob, L., & Lyre, H. (2021). A structural constraint on neural correlates of consciousness. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 2. LINK
  • Fink, S. B. (2020). Look who’s talking! Varieties of ego-dissolution without paradox. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 1(I), 1-36. LINK

Selected Recordings