Professor of philosophy of religion on the Roman Catholic theological faculty and a principal investigator of the research cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and Vice Chairman of the German Society for Philosophy of Religion. Schmidt is also a Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2009.
Professor of philosophy of religion on the Roman Catholic theological faculty and a principal investigator of the research cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and Vice Chairman of the German Society for Philosophy of Religion. Schmidt is also a Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2009. He studied philosophy, theology, and sociology at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Georgen and the J.W. Goethe University and received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt. He is the author of several publications including Scientific Explanation and Religious Beliefs (with Michael Parker) and Religion and the Critique of Culture (with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann). Schmidt served as assistant professor in the department of philosophy at California State University Long Beach and visiting professor at the St. Louis University and the University of Washington in Seattle.