Michael Kuhler is private lecturer ("Privatdozent") and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Munster, Germany. His areas of specialization include ethics, metaethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of love. He has written a book on moral justification and motivation (Moral und Ethik - Rechtfertigung und Motivation. Ein zweifaches Verstandnis von Moralbegrundung, Mentis, 2006) and has just finished a second book project on the relation between "ought" and "can" (Sollen ohne Konnen? Uber Sinn und Geltung nicht erfullbarer Sollensanspruche, Mentis, forthcoming). Currently, he is working on, among other things, the relation between personal autonomy and love. Nadja Jelinek was Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from 2005-2009. Currently she is about to finish her doctoral thesis, dedicated to a close examination of the relation between normativity and freedom/autonomy in the works of Harry Frankfurt, Charles Taylor and authors following the theory of George Herbert Mead. Her main research interests are, apart from theories of freedom and autonomy, theories of personhood and moral philosophy, especially applied ethics.
