He took his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1971 after studies with Dieter Henrich and Ernst Tugendhat on the philosophy of time, with reference to the work of J. M. E. McTaggart.
After the conferral of his doctorate, Bieri followed an academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Martin Halter, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, criticized Bieri's attempt "to dress up the trite man from Bern in a French philosopher's lace jabot"[5] as a pretentious mannerism.
"[6] Reviewers identified “heart, woe and a lot of fate” as “his recipe for success”[7] which Bieri, aiming at “wellness literature”,[8] applied in each of his books with little variation.
[10] A full list of his philosophical works may be found on Wikipedia's German pages.