I am a professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My research is supported by a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation with the title “Shining Light on Praise. Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory of Praise.” In addition, I am the PI of an SNSF Ambizione Research Project on evaluative language, “Investigating Thick Ethical Concepts — Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives,” . You find a short project description here as well as under “Research”.
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. Currently, 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.