Michael G. Festl

Prof. Dr. Michael G. Festl, born 1980, is a philosopher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He writes on ethics, political philosophy, and epistemology. He is an expert in American Pragmatism.

Besides his doctorate in philosophy with sociology and statistics in Munich, St. Gallen and Chicago (summa cum laude), Michael holds master degrees in History and Literature from the University Hagen and St. Gallen’s Master of Banking and Finance. Michael has been guest researcher at the Research Center for Ethics and Poverty in Salzburg, the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and LaTrobe University Melbourne.

Michael is the director of the John-Dewey-Center Switzerland and Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Eastern Switzerland. From 2013 to 2015 he served as the far by youngest president in the history of the Swiss Philosophical Society in which he still serves as a member of the board of directors. He lives with his wife and his four children close to Lake Constance.