Team

Project Leaders

Markus Quirin is a professor of personality psychology and motivation at PFH Göttingen as well as a research fellow at Technical University of Munich. In 2017 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research, which was published in more than 70 peer-reviewed, international journal articles, focuses on personality, motivation, emotion, and volition („self-regulation“), their complex causal interplay, measurement, brain mechanisms and relationships to psychological health.

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

 

 

Godehard Brüntrup is a philosopher and theologian. He is a professor of philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology at Munich School of philosophy in Munich, Germany. He also teaches regularly in the USA (he has held positions at St. Louis University, Fordham University, and the University of Notre Dame, among others). Recently, he was the leader of a  large-scale interdisciplinary research project on motivation and human flourishing funded by Templeton.

 

Selected Recent Publications

“Job’s Final Insight, Narratives, and the Brain”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2021 (13), p 4-23

 

„Wahrheit vom Gottesstandpunkt? Zur Semantik theologischer Aussagen“ Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie" 2022 (144), 1, p. 95-111

 

Tugend und Eudaimonie. In: Theologie und Philosophie 93. Jahrgang (2018), Heft 3,S.389 - 408.

 

Der Ort der Freiheit in der Natur In: von Stosch, Klaus/ Wendel, Saskia/ Breul, Martin/ Langenfeld, Aaron (eds.) Streit um die Freiheit. Philosophische und Theologische Perspektiven. Schoeningh, 2018.

 

Die Freiheit des Willens - ein noch aktueller Begriff? In: RphZ - Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie 2017/3, p. 251-265

 

"Emergent Panpsychism". In: Brüntrup, Godehard / Jaskolla, Ludwig (eds.): Panpsychism. Oxford University Press 2016

Team Members

Lieke Asma holds Master’s degrees in cognitive psychology and philosophy of behavioral science. In 2018, she defended her dissertation entitled Consciousness in Intentional Action at the VU Amsterdam. She is employed at the Munich School of Philosophy, where she currently conducts research on the nature of implicit bias, funded by an individual research grant from the DFG. Her book on free will and behavioral science (2021) was shortlisted for the Socrates Cup and the Hypatia-prize.

 

Selected Recent Publications

Asma, L. J. F. (2022). On the nature of implicit motives. Theory and Psychology.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2022). Habitual virtuous action and acting for reasons. Philosophical Psychology.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2021). Mijn Intenties en Ik. Filosofie van de Vrije Wil. Boom uitgevers Amsterdam.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2021). The guidance theory of action: A critical review. Topoi, 40, 687-694. doi: 10.1007/s11245-020-09711-4.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2017). There is no free won’t: The role definitions play. Journal of Consciousness

Studies, 24(5-6), 8-23.

 

 

Gina Hernández holds a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science (Carleton University, Canada). In 2021, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Implicit Measures of Affect for the Study of Daily Stress at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently, she conducts research on implicit affectivity, funded by a research grant from the Technical University of Munich.

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elena Fischer holds a master's degree in clinical psychology (University of Salzburg, Austria). She is pursuing a PhD and is employed at the PFH Göttingen, where she teaches and conducts research on coaching.

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

Markus Quirin is a professor of personality psychology and motivation at PFH Göttingen as well as a research fellow at Technical University of Munich. In 2017 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research, which was published in more than 70 peer-reviewed, international journal articles, focuses on personality, motivation, emotion, and volition („self-regulation“), their complex causal interplay, measurement, brain mechanisms and relationships to psychological health.

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

 

 

Godehard Brüntrup is a philosopher and theologian. He is a professor of philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology at Munich School of philosophy in Munich, Germany. He also teaches regularly in the USA (he has held positions at St. Louis University, Fordham University, and the University of Notre Dame, among others). Recently, he was the leader of a  large-scale interdisciplinary research project on motivation and human flourishing funded by Templeton.

 

Selected Recent Publications

“Job’s Final Insight, Narratives, and the Brain”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2021 (13), p 4-23

 

„Wahrheit vom Gottesstandpunkt? Zur Semantik theologischer Aussagen“ Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie" 2022 (144), 1, p. 95-111

 

Tugend und Eudaimonie. In: Theologie und Philosophie 93. Jahrgang (2018), Heft 3,S.389 - 408.

 

Der Ort der Freiheit in der Natur In: von Stosch, Klaus/ Wendel, Saskia/ Breul, Martin/ Langenfeld, Aaron (eds.) Streit um die Freiheit. Philosophische und Theologische Perspektiven. Schoeningh, 2018.

 

Die Freiheit des Willens - ein noch aktueller Begriff? In: RphZ - Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie 2017/3, p. 251-265

 

"Emergent Panpsychism". In: Brüntrup, Godehard / Jaskolla, Ludwig (eds.): Panpsychism. Oxford University Press 2016

Team

Lieke Asma holds Master’s degrees in cognitive psychology and philosophy of behavioral science. In 2018, she defended her dissertation entitled Consciousness in Intentional Action at the VU Amsterdam. She is employed at the Munich School of Philosophy, where she currently conducts research on the nature of implicit bias, funded by an individual research grant from the DFG. Her book on free will and behavioral science (2021) was shortlisted for the Socrates Cup and the Hypatia-prize.

 

Selected Recent Publications

Asma, L. J. F. (2022). On the nature of implicit motives. Theory and Psychology.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2022). Habitual virtuous action and acting for reasons. Philosophical Psychology.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2021). Mijn Intenties en Ik. Filosofie van de Vrije Wil. Boom uitgevers Amsterdam.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2021). The guidance theory of action: A critical review. Topoi, 40, 687-694. doi: 10.1007/s11245-020-09711-4.

 

Asma, L. J. F. (2017). There is no free won’t: The role definitions play. Journal of Consciousness

Studies, 24(5-6), 8-23.

Project Leaders

Team Members

Gina Hernández holds a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science (Carleton University, Canada). In 2021, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Implicit Measures of Affect for the Study of Daily Stress at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently, she conducts research on implicit affectivity, funded by a research grant from the Technical University of Munich.

 

Selected Recent Publications

 

 

 

 

 

Elena Fischer holds a master's degree in clinical psychology (University of Salzburg, Austria). She is pursuing a PhD and is employed at the PFH Göttingen, where she teaches and conducts research on coaching.

 

Selected Recent Publications