The Nature of Our Values | Markus Gabriel | TEDxBerlinSalon

More information via http://www.tedxberlin.de/ Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel is the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Director of the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Born in 1980, Gabriel studied philosophy and Ancient Greek in Bonn and Heidelberg. Previous to his current position, he was appointed assistant professor at the New School of Social Research in New York. Gabriel has held visiting professorships at Aarhus University, PUC Porto Alegre, PUC Rio de Janeiro and UC Berkeley. His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of religion and aesthetics, ancient philosophy, Post-Kantian Idealism, and contemporary analytical and post-analytical philosophy. He is the author of several books including Subjectivity, Madness and Laughter: Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (2009), co-authored with Slavoj Zizek; Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism (2011), Skepticism and Idealism in Ancient Philosophy (2013, forthcoming), Warum es die Welt nicht gibt (2013), has been a SPIEGEL bestseller. His most recent books are Fields of Sense. A New Realist Ontology.(2015) and Ich ist nicht Gehirn (2015). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx