Kathrin Stengel, Ph. D., studied philosophy at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Munich, and Konstanz (Germany). She has taught philosophy at Seattle University and published essays on ethics, aesthetics, and epistemology, as well as a comparative study on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of perception, entitled Das Subjekt als Grenze (The Subject as Threshold), and November Rose: A Speech on Death (winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award). For many years, Kathrin has also taught Vipassana Meditation. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three sons. Dr. Kathrin Stengel resides in New York City and is the co-founder of the Independent Center for Philosophical Thinking.
