Frege Award

Martine Nida-Rümelin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her research focuses on philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language, with a particular emphasis on phenomenal consciousness and the identity of conscious beings over time and across possible worlds. After studying philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and political science at LMU Munich, she completed her doctorate with a dissertation on Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument and her habilitation with a non-reductionist theory of personal identity. Her variant of the thought experiment “Mary’s Room” was referred to by John Perry as the “Nida-Rümelin Room”. She has taught in Fribourg since 1999; she devotes most of her work to developing a non-materialist position that she calls subject–body dualism. In 2019, she was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize.

Dieter Birnbacher was Professor of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf until his retirement in 2012. His research focuses on applied ethics, in particular bioethics and medical ethics, as well as environmental ethics and ethics of the future. After studying in Düsseldorf, Cambridge, and Hamburg, he earned his PhD in Hamburg in 1973 and completed his habilitation in Essen in 1988. After holding a professorship in Dortmund, he took up the professorship in Düsseldorf in 1996. He is a member of the Leopoldina and served as Chair of the Central Ethics Committee of the German Medical Association from 2013 to 2016.

Wolfgang Spohn was Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science at the University of Konstanz until 2018; from 2019 to 2025 he was a senior professor at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on formal epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and decision theory. After studying in Munich, he earned his PhD there in 1976 on decision theory and completed his habilitation in 1984 with a work on causality. After professorships in Regensburg and Bielefeld, he took up the professorship in Konstanz in 1996. In 2012 he received the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics, and in 2024 an honorary doctorate from LMU Munich. He is a member of the Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea. He was managing editor of the journal Erkenntnis, spokesperson for two DFG research groups, co-initiator of a DFG Priority Programme, and head of a Reinhart Koselleck Project.

Rüdiger Bittner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bielefeld University. His research focuses on practical philosophy, in particular ethics and action theory. After studying in Tübingen, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Harvard, he earned his PhD in Heidelberg in 1970 on Kant’s concept of dialectic. In 1982 he completed his habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin. After working as a lecturer in Princeton and holding professorships in Hildesheim and Yale, he took up the professorship in Bielefeld in 1991.

Wolfgang Künne was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg until his retirement in 2010. His research focuses on philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the early history of analytic philosophy in Prague, Jena, and Cambridge. He has published extensively on theories of truth as well as on the works of Gottlob Frege and Bernard Bolzano. He was Chair of the Inter-Academy Leibniz Commission and President of the International Bolzano Society. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a Fellow of the British Academy.