Dr. Martin Korth

research into scientifically tenable objective idealism/platonic realism, consensus models and AI:
- progressive, secular, pragmatic idealism and the emanation problem
- bridging psychology and neuroscience with idealistic and/or consensus models
- the purpose of qualia/computing with qualia
- idealistic metaphysics and quantum theory
- idealism and artificial intelligence
recent output:
book Information, Intelligence and Idealism PDF
article Unhelpful! Mindsets that I found less than conducive to fully grasp, let alone make progress with, the mind/body problem PDF
article A (sort of) new task for the philosophy of religion: Cultural containment through religion for the (hopefully not) coming new Middle Ages PDF
article Why economic inequality pushes half of us to illiberal ideas, while the other half is fighting for diversity: The second wave and an increasingly important task in the philosophy of economics PDF
article How to construct consensus models to (maybe) make sense of the mind/body problem PDF
and Philosophy: The Game! PDF

since 2020 Scientific Director, IVV NWZ at U Münster
- coordinator of the Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, CMTC
- member of Center for Data Science and Complexity, CDSC, the InterKI AI teaching initiative and co-coordinator of the InterKI work group on AI and Philosophy
- member of Zentrum für Wissenschaftstheorie (Center for the Philosophy of Science), ZfW
- member of AMCS (Assoc. f. Math. Consciousness Sci.)

2017-2020 Founder and CEO of Molecular Projects UG (AI for electrochemical energy storage)/
teaching at Heisenberg Gymnasium (DO) and Gymnasium St. Mauritz (MS)
2011-2017 Juniorprofessor for multiscale modeling in computational material science, U Ulm
2010-2011 Postdoc researcher with Walter Thiel (Theoretical Chemistry) at MPI Mülheim
2009-2010 Leopoldina postdoc researcher with Mike Towler (Theoretical Physics) at U Cambridge (UK)
2009 Postdoc researcher with Pavel Hobza (Theoretical Biochemistry) at Czech Academy of Sciences
2003-2009 Student and graduate assistent with Stefan Grimme, U Münster

PhD Philosophy U Bamberg/Augsburg (thesis accepted)
PhD Theoretical/Quantum Chemistry with Stefan Grimme, U Münster
Studies in Psychology and Educational Science
Magister artium (Master) Philosophy, Literature and Historical Science
Diplom (Master) Chemistry

Quantum Chemistry, machine learning and computational research into molecular materials for electrochemical energy storage

45 Scientific publications, 2850+ citations, H-index 25, I-index 33 on scholar.google.com
Lectures and practical courses in computational chemistry at U Ulm
(Excellent teaching evaluation results with overall 4.85 out of 5 points on Meinprof.de)
since 2020 lectures and practical courses on scientfic computing at U Muenster
Supervision of 2 Phd students, 1 Master student
Reviewer for 30+ journals incl. Nature Chemistry/Energy, Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie, and five funding institutions incl. ERC and DFG
More than 333.000 Euro DFG funding, postdoc/returnee stipends and several travel grants from Leopoldina, DFG and DAAD
Overall 38 invited, 19 contributed talks in US, UK, CN, DE, CH, A, IT, CZ, SVK

Research into scientifically tenable objective idealism/platonic realism, consensus models and AI:
(I don't do journals (anymore), so read things here or on philpapers.org)

Book:
(2025) Information, Intelligence and Idealism -- english manuscript on philpapers.org PDF

Articles:
(2025) Unhelpful! Mindsets that I found less than conducive to fully grasp, let alone make progress with, the mind/body problem (philpapers.org)
(2025) A (sort of) new task for the philosophy of religion: Cultural containment through religion for the (hopefully not) coming new Middle Ages (philpapers.org)
(2025) Why economic inequality pushes half of us to illiberal ideas, while the other half is fighting for diversity: The second wave and an increasingly important task in the philosophy of economics (philpapers.org)
(2025) How to construct consensus models to (maybe) make sense of the mind/body problem (philpapers.org)
(2025) Philosphy: The Game (philpapers.org)

(2022) Two comments on Chalmers classification of idealism, also on philpapers.org
(2022) Towards a scientifically tenable description of objective idealism, also on philpapers.org, or arxiv.org
(2022) A new interpretation of quantum theory, based on a bundle-theoretic view of objective idealism, also on philpapers.org, or arxiv.org
(2022) The purpose of qualia: What if human thinking is not (only) information processing?, also on philpapers.org, or arxiv.org

Popular science book:
(2021) Beyond Materialism! - From artificial intelligence to the culture wars
Download the latest PDF version directly from here, or the EPUB file from here

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