Executive Committee

Prof. Dr. Elke Brendel (Bonn)
President

Elke Brendel is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Chair of Logic and the Foundations of Science at the University of Bonn. Her main research and teaching interests are: logic (classical and non-classical logic), philosophy of logic (semantic paradoxes, methods of justifying logical theories, normativity of logic), epistemology (theories of knowledge), metaphysics (theories of truth, modality, fictionalism), and philosophy of language (formal semantics, contextualism). In a current interdisciplinary research project, she is exploring the relationship between reality and fiction and the role of philosophical thought experiments as a source of knowledge.

Prof. Dr. Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf)
President

Markus Schrenk is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. His teaching and research interests are centered on metaphysics, particularly in relation to the metaphysics of natural sciences (laws of nature, dispositions, causality, modality), philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. However, his latest project deals with a topic in the philosophy of art: What is proprioceptive art? In 2022, together with the team from the Public Philosophy Project denXte, he received the Communicator Award for Science Communication by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband.

Dr. Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla (Köln)
Manager

Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne, specialising in the philosophy of science and epistemology. His work focuses on the justification and optimisation of scientific reasoning (induction, abduction and reasoning in social epistemology) and its systematic-historical background.

Prof. Dr. Anna Schriefl (Berlin)
Treasurer and Vice President

Anna Schriefl is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has previously held academic positions at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Bonn, served as a guest professor at the interdisciplinary Zurich Center for the Study of Antiquity (ZAZH), and was awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship at the New School in New York City. Her research focuses primarily on ancient Greek philosophy, with current interests in Aristotle's metaphysics and embryology as well as Stoic ethics.

Prof. Dr. Geert Keil (Berlin)
Vice President

Geert Keil is Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research and teaching focuses on questions of action theory, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of free will and law. He was President of the GAP from 2018 to 2022. He is co-founder and operator of the public philosophy network portal PhilPublica.

Prof. Dr. Elif Özmen (Gießen)
Vice President

Elif Özmen is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Justus Liebig University in Gießen. Her teaching and research interests lie in political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science. Her latest projects deal with academic freedom, liberal democracy and transformations of human nature.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid (Hamburg)
Vice President

Stephan Schmid is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Universität Hamburg. His teaching and research interests lie in the late medieval and early modern period where he focuses on debates of metaphysics (including causality, modality, and powers), philosophy of mind (such as intentionality and mental faculties), and epistemology (particularly skepticism and concepts). More recently, he has begun exploring metaethical questions from this era, investigating how thinkers of the time sought to account for moral obligations and elucidate the content and motivating force of moral beliefs.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Vetter (Berlin)
Vice President

Barbara Vetter is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests lie in the metaphysics and epistemology of all forms of ‘ability’: possibilities, capabilities and dispositions. Together with Dominik Perler (HU Berlin), she leads the Berlin research group „Human Abilities“ since 2020. Together with Daniel James, she has also launched the blog „firstgenphilosophers“.

Dr. Martina Fürst (Graz)
Austrian Representative, co-opted

Martina Fürst is a key researcher of the Cluster of Excellence "Knowledge in Crisis" at the University of Graz. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, in particular, social epistemology. In her current research, she analyzes the role that phenomenal states play in various forms of epistemic injustice. Martina Fürst is recurring visiting scholar at the University of Arizona and at the University of California, Irvine. She is also an editor of Grazer Philosophische Studien. An international journal for analytic philosophy.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller (Bern)
Swiss Representative, co-opted

Andreas Müller is Professor for Practical Philosophy at the University of Bern. His main areas of teaching and research are normative ethics and metaethics. He has worked on the nature of practical reasons and their relationship to reasoning. His current research focuses on conceptual and normative questions about consent and other normative powers.