Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998. Then he served as head of the theory group at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology at Freiburg until 2013. His fields of research are the theory of complex systems, conceptual and theoretical aspects of (algebraic) quantum theory, and mind-matter relations from interdisciplinary perspectives. He is the president of the Society for Mind-Matter Research and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary international journal Mind and Matter. For more details see collegium.ethz.ch/en/about-us/staff/pd-dr-harald-atmanspacher/.
Harald Atmanspacher
Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Papers / Presentations
Participant In These Roundtable Discussions
Sat
Apr 12th
2014
Apr 12th
2014
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Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind and Matter
This roundtable will examine Jung and Pauli’s concept of synchronicity as meaningful, acausal coincidence, and consider how such phenomena are approached at the intersection of physics and psychology.
Wed
Nov 5th
2014
Nov 5th
2014
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Synchronicity and Other Mind Matter Conjectures
This roundtable will examine the relationship between mind and matter through the lens of Jung and Pauli’s concept of synchronicity and related ideas of dual-aspect monism and meaningful correlations between mental and physical phenomena.
Sat
Dec 7th
2019
Dec 7th
2019
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Mathematics and Other Realities
This roundtable examines competing views of reality beyond physicalism, focusing on mathematical Platonism and tiered ontologies. It considers how these perspectives challenge the idea that particles and fields form the sole fundamental basis of existence.
Sat
Apr 30th
2022
Apr 30th
2022
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Metaphysics
This roundtable examines the evolving relationship between physics, metaphysics, and human knowledge of nature, from classical assumptions to modern challenges posed by quantum theory, language, and cognition. It considers how contemporary science and philosophy are reviving metaphysical inquiry by integrating empirical findings with questions about reality, perception, and consciousness.