Anne-Marie Pindur majored 2005 in Philosophy and German Language and Literature at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her thesis was about Harry Frankfurt’s notion of autonomy. From 2001 until 2003 she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. From 2006 until 2010 she was research assistant at the chair of practical philosophy at the University of Göttingen held by Prof. Dr. Holmer Steinfath. In the winter semester 2008/2009 Anne-Marie taught a course on philosophical approaches to trust at the University of Göttingen. Since 2007 she works on her dissertation project Autonomy and Trust. From 2008 until 2010 she received a PhD-scholarship from the “Cusanuswerk” (The scholarship body of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany). From December 2010 on Anne-Marie is working as a research assistant in the sub-project “Autonomy and Trust” which is part of the research group “Autonomy and Trust in Modern Medicine”.

• philosophical psychology (in particular theories of personal autonomy and identiy, trust)
• theory of action
• metaethics
• practical rationality and applied ethics