Gerhard Ernst was born in 1971, studied physics and philosophy and has been a
professor of philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2012. He has been awarded the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize of the Society for Analytical Philosophy and, from 2005 until 2010, was a member of the Young Academy. He has written several philosophical publications, including a number on the
theory of cognition, such as The Problem of Knowledge (2001) and Introduction to the Theory of Cognition (2007, 2009, 2011).