CV

Employment

2015	Assistant Professor (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”, research-only) Universität Duisburg-Essen
2013-2015	Assistant Professor Tilburg University, Department of Philosophy/Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)
2009-2013	PhD Student University of Leiden, Institute for Philosophy

Education

2014	PhD in Philosophy, University of Groningen (grade: ‘cum laude’ = highest possible distinction) Supervisor: Pauline Kleingeld, University of Groningen Committee: Jeanette Kennett, Macquarie University, Sydney; Jesse Prinz, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Maureen Sie, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
2009	MA in Philosophy MA in Literature Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Thesis (Philosophy, Supervisors: Axel Honneth, Rainer Forst) (grade: 1,0 (‘mit Auszeichnung’ = highest possible distinction)) (overall grade: 1,0 (‘mit Auszeichnung’ = highest possible distinction))
2006-2009	MA studies of Philosophy MA studies of Literature Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
2002-2006	MA studies of Philosophy MA studies of Literature Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Research Visits

2011	The Graduate Center, CUNY (Faculty Advisor: Jesse Prinz) Columbia University, New York City (Faculty Advisor: Axel Honneth)

Publikationen

Monographie

2009	Who’s Afraid of Instrumental Reason? Instrumentelle Vernunft und die Diagnose sozialer Pathologien, Marburg: Tectum.

 

Artikel

2015	Can't We All Disagree More Constructively? Moral Foundations, Moral Reasoning, and Political Disagreement, Neuroethics (forthcoming)
2014	It's the Knobe Effect, Stupid! How (and How Not) to Explain the Side-Effect Effect, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5 (4), 485-503. The Wrong Kind of Mistake. A Problem for Robust Sentimentalism about Moral Judgment, Journal of Value Inquiry, 48 (2), 247-269.
2013	(with Tom Bates) Chairmen, Cocaine, and Car Crashes. The Knobe Effect as an Attribution Error, The Journal of Ethics, 17 (4), 305-330.
2012	Morally Irrelevant Factors. What’s left of the dual-process model of moral cognition?, Philosophical Psychology, 25 (6), 783-811. Educated Intuitions. Automaticity and Rationality in Moral Judgment, Philosophical Explorations, 15 (3), 255-275. Psychopaths and Filthy Desks. Are Emotions Necessary and Sufficient for Moral Judgment?, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15 (1), 95-115.
2011	Social Intuitionism and the Psychology of Moral Reasoning, Philosophy Compass, 6 (10), 708-721. The Appropriateness of Emotions. Moral Judgment, Moral Emotions, and the Conflation Problem, Ethical Perpectives , 18 (1), 107-140.
2009	Vernunft und Öffentlichkeit. Habermas über den internen Zusammenhang von Rechtsstaat und Demokratie“, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 95 (1), (2009), 1-8.

In Progress

The Weakest Link. Can Metaethics Protect Our Moral Beliefs from Evolutionary Debunking? (under review)
The Asymmetry of Understanding. Moral Foundations, Moral Reasoning, and Political Disagreement (under review)
Ignorantia Legis Non Excusat. A Neglected Challenge to Moral Realism? (in progress)
Far-Fetched. What Can We Learn from Moral Judgments About Unrealistic Scenarios? (in progress)
The Rationality of Moral Judgment (with Jonathan Webber, in progress)
The Scope of the Moral Domain (with Frank Hindriks, in progress)

Andere

2015	Moralisten Durch und Durch. Was wir von der experimentellen Philosophie lernen können (und was nicht), Cogito, 05 (01/2015), 44-47. Review of The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness. Edited by Nancy Snow and Franco Trivigno. Routledge 2014, forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Review of Being Amoral. Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity. Edited by Thomas Schramme. MIT Press 2014, forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
2011	(with Tom Bates) Review of The Moral Psychology Handbook. Edited by John Doris and The Moral Psychology Research Group. Oxford University Press, New York 2010, Metapsychology Online Review (http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/)
2009	Review of Cass R. Sunstein: Gesetze der Angst. Jenseits des Vorsorgeprinzips, in: Berliner Debatte Initial. Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs, 156-160.
2008	Weltraum zwischen den Zeilen. Niels Werbers Beitrag zur ‚reflexiven Globalisierung’, (Review of Niels Werber: Die Geopolitik der Literatur. Vermessungen einer medialen Weltraumordnung, München 2007), in: Forschung Frankfurt 3, 108. Das Tribunal der Vernunft. Rainer Forst über das ‚Recht auf Rechtfertigung’, (Review of Rainer Forst: Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung. Elemente einer konstruktivistischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, Frankfurt/Main 2008), in: Forschung Frankfurt 1, 107.
2007	Review of Michel Foucault: Die Macht der Psychiatrie. Vorlesung am Collège de France 1973/74, in: Berliner Debatte Initial. Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs 18, 107-110.

 

 

Vorträge und Lehrveranstaltungen

 

2015	Far-Fetched. What Can We Learn from Moral Judgments About Unrealistic Cases? Bochum, November 26-28 Far-Fetched. What Can We Learn from Moral Judgments About Unrealistic Cases? Osnabrück, September 14-17 Far-Fetched. What Can We Learn from Moral Judgments About Unrealistic Cases? Potsdam, July 7 Moral Intuition Leiden, May 13 What Do You Mean, Intention? Delft, March 19
2014	Can metaethics protect our moral beliefs from debunking? Utrecht, November 28 Can metaethics protect our moral beliefs from debunking? Nijmegen, November 7 Habituation and Moral Reasoning Tübingen, October 3 Can metaethics protect our moral beliefs from debunking? Münster, September 30 Educated Moral Intuitions Cardiff, June 12-13 The Weakest Link. Moral Realism, Debunking, and the Darwinian Dilemma Toronto, May 9-10 The Weakest Link. Moral Realism, Debunking, and the Darwinian Dilemma Tilburg, April 30 What (and Where) Are the Moral Limits of the Market? Groningen, February 20
2013	The Asymmetry of Understanding. What can moral psychology teach us about political disagreement? Tilburg, December 12-13 Moral Intuitions and Moral Foundations Rotterdam, November 15-16 Improving Moral Cognition Tilburg, October 23 Weird Intuitions, Strange Foundations. Why Social Intuitionism and Moral Foundations Theory are Incompatible Groningen, July 4 Conscience and Psychopathic Moral Incompetence Leiden, June 3 The Responsibility Attribution Error Eindhoven, May 21 The Responsibility Attribution Error Tilburg, May 15 Just Taxes. Equality, Liberty, and Tax Justice Tilburg, March 25
2012	The Normative Insignificance of the Knobe Effect Eindhoven, November 2-3 Interesting Moral Scepticism Amsterdam, July 8-9 The Wrong Kind of Mistake. Why (and How) Sentimentalism Fails Groningen, March 6
2011	Educated Intuitions. Moral Judgment between Automaticity and Rationality Barchem, August 21-25 Morally Irrelevant Factors. Emotion, Moral Judgment, and the Brain Milan, September 1-6 Morally Irrelevant Factors. Emotion, Moral Judgment, and the Brain Leiden, February 17
2010	The Appropriateness of Emotions. Retributive Emotions, Moral Judgment, and the Conflation Problem Utrecht, July 1 Psychopaths and Filthy Desks. Are Emotions Necessary and Sufficient for Moral Judgment? Zürich, March 29-31
2009	On the Very Idea of a Deontic Leap Utrecht, November 19 Mindless Judging? Moral Reasoning and Intuitive Reflexes Utrecht, November 13 Constitutive Principles of an Inescapable Practice. Comment on Christine Korsgaard: Self-Constitution. Agency, Identity and Integrity Utrecht, April 27