I am an SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow and the Principle Investigator of the research group “Investigating Thick Ethical Concepts — Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives”, located at the University of Zurich. You find a short project description here as well as under “Research”.
I am delighted to announce that I was further awarded an SNSF Starting Grant for five years, and I’ll be continuing at UZH as a professor starting in June 2025. In the coming years, I will be working on the project “Shining Light on Praise. Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory of Praise.”
Please take a look at my CV.
My research interests are in moral philosophy and metaethics, moral psychology, as well as experimental philosophy. I have intensively worked on the attribution of moral responsibility, with a special focus on the role of causal judgments. At the moment, I focus on thick ethical concepts and their role in metaethical debates. I argue that empirically investigating thick ethical concepts will not only contribute to our theoretical understanding of these concepts, but will also inform how normativity enters ordinary language, metaethical and normative-ethical debates, and theories of moral psychology.