Professor Martin Hartmann was appointed as Chair of Practical Philosophy by the University of Lucerne in February 2011. Hartmann studied philosophy, comparative literature and sociology at the University of Constance, the London School of Economics, and the Free University in Berlin. He received his PhD with a thesis entitled The Creativity of Habit: Principles of a Pragmatist Theory of Democracy at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 2001, where he also qualified as a professor in 2009. He is Associate Member of the Board of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lucerne (GSL), a doctoral study program for highly qualified students.