Dr. Bernd Michael Müller-Bierl, PhD (a.k.a. Bernie Bierl)
My work connects phenomenology and embodied cognition with learning theory, ethology, and the cognitive sciences.
I am especially interested in how meaning, agency, and “lifeworld” structures emerge from organism–environment interaction,
development, and social coordination.
A recurring question in my work is how lived experience, learning, and normativity can be understood without reducing them
either to formal models or to purely subjective descriptions. In teaching, I emphasize conceptual clarity, close reading,
and dialogue across philosophy and the cognitive sciences.
A parallel focus is building a personal research-oriented retrieval system (RAG) that supports cross-domain synthesis
across philosophy and the sciences.
Notable Book Series in Phenomenological Research
📙 Husserliana – Critical edition of Edmund Husserl’s complete works
📗 Phänomenologische Forschungen – Academic book series (Alber Verlag, Freiburg. i. Br.)
📘 Phänomenologie – Thematic series on theory and application (Alber Verlag, Freiburg. i. Br.)
Foundational figures in behavioral science and ethology
