Matthias Hoesch studied philosophy in Muenster, Salamanca and Groningen. For his PhD thesis on Kant's philosophy of history, he received a grant by the academic scholarship foundation Cusanuswerk. Since 2013, he is postdoc researcher in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" (Muenster). His research interests include political philosophy in the modern era, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the moral philosophy of Derek Parfit, migration ethics and the justification of territorial rights. In 2016, he won the prize question "Which and how many refugees should we admit?" of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. Since 2016, he is fellow in the promotion program for junior scholars "The Young ZiF".

Nadine Mooren studied Philosophy, English and Classical philology at the University of Cologne. She received her M.A. at the University of Cologne and her Ph.D. at the WWU Muenster. Since 2016, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Philosophy in Muenster. She works mainly in the areas of Practical Philosophy, Ethics and the philosophy of German Idealism as well as Left Hegelianism. She has written a book on Hegel's conception of philosophy and religion: Hegel und die Religion (2018). Her current research interests include the philosophy of aging and old age.