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I am an SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow and the Principle Investigator of the research group  “Investigating Thick Ethical Concepts — Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives” (short: InTEC), located at the University of Zurich. You find a short project description here as well as under “Research”.

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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.

Contact:

University of Zurich, Department of Philosophy, Zollikerstrasse 117, 8008 Zurich
Office: ZOA 2 217

Email: Pascale[dot]Willemsen@uzh.ch

Most Recent Publications

Most Recent Publications

Edited Volumes

Willemsen, Pascale; Wiegmann, Alex (2022). Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation. Bloomsbury Press.

Articles

Machery, Edouard, Kneer, Markus, Willemsen, Pascale; Newen, Albert (forthcoming in 2023). Beyond the courtroom: agency and the perception of free will. In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action, London: Bloomsbury Press.
Pre-print (2022) available here: https://osf.io/r8h3

Willemsen, Pascale; Baumgartner, Lucien; Frohofer, Severin; Reuter, Kevin (forthcoming in 2023). Examining thick concepts in the legal discourse using corpus analysis. In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law, London: Bloomsbury Press.
Pre-print (2021) available here: https://psyarxiv.com/yxsp9/

Baumgartner, Lucien; Willemsen, Pascale; Reuter, Kevin (2022). The polarity effect of evaluative language. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2123311

Baumgartner, Lucien; Willemsen, Pascale;  Reuter, Kevin (2022). The polarity effect of evaluative language. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, Hugh Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.1144content/uploads/2022/07/CogSci2022Proceedings-1.pdf

Coninx, Sabrina; Willemsen, Pascale; Reuter, Kevin (2022). An experimental-linguistic study of the folk concept of pain: Implication, projection, & deniability. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, Hugh Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CogSci2022Proceedings-1.pdf

Wiegmann, Alex; Willemsen, Pascale; Meibauer, Jörg (2022). Lying, deceptive implicatures, and commitment. In press with Ergo.
Pre-assigned link: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2251

Willemsen, Pascale (2022). Direct and derivative moral responsibility – An overlooked distinction in experimental philosophy. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Bloomsbury Press.

Talks in 2023

Talks in 2023

To be filled with exciting events!

Event Organisation in 2023

Event Organisation in 2023

Co-Organiser of the Third European Experimental Philosophy Meeting 2023 (with Kevin Reuter, Ethan Landes, Michael Messerli, and Markus Kneer), 14 – 16 September 2023, University of Zurich.