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.

Meanwhile, I am focusing again on MRI and fMRI research and support. More information is available in my CV and job presentation.

Notable Book Series in Phenomenological Research

  • 📙 Husserliana
  • 📗 Phänomenologische Forschungen
  • 📘 Phänomenologie
Neuron Agaporniden Crab eating monkey

Foundational figures in behavioral science and ethology

  • Skinner
  • Hinde
  • Lorenz
  • Tinbergen