Dr. Maureen Sie

Biography

Maureen Sie's research interests include philosophy of action, moral psychology, and meta-ethics, with a specialization in moral responsibility, free will, self-control, and the adaptive unconscious. In March 2017, Sie was appointed full professor of philosophy of moral agency at Tilburg University and became the director of the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, & Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Previously, she served as an associate professor of meta-ethics and moral psychology at the Department of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 2009 to 2014, she led a small research group funded by a prestigious personal grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, exploring the implications of developments in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience on the concept of moral agency and reasons-responsiveness. Sie has published extensively on implicit bias in relation to moral responsibility, investigating empirical literature on mechanisms that impact implicit biases, as well as the social dimensions of moral responsibility. Her work also examines the influence of emotions on moral practices and moral hypocrisy, providing critical insights into widely accepted paradigms in social psychology. In earlier publications, she addressed neuroscientific challenges to the concept of free will.

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