Markus Kneer

Research

Language
Mind
Moral psychology
Philosophy of Law

Curriculum vitae

Since 2018	Principal Investigator of the SNF Ambizione research group "Reading Guilty Minds", University of Zurich, Chair of Applied Ethics
2017 – 2018	Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
2017	Qualification, Maître de Conférences, Section 17 (Philosophy)
2015 – 2017	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
2015	PhD in Philosophy, Institut Nicod (ENS/EHESS Paris) Title: "Perspective in Language", très honorable avec félicitations du jury, Committee: F. Récanati (supervisor), I. Stojanovic, J. Perry, E. Machery
2009 – 2010	Procter Fellow, Princeton University
2008	MA in Cognitive Science, Institut Nicod (ENS/EHESS Paris) Title: "Limits of the Imagination", mention très bien (19/20) Supervisor: F. Récanati
2006 – 2009	Élève, Ecole Normal Supérieure, Par
2006	BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Oxford University (Balliol College), First class honours in final examinations, Distinction in preliminary examinations

Teaching

Publications

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2023
- Working Paper
  - Kneer, Markus; Haybron, Dan (2023). Taking the morality out of happiness. SSRN Preprints 4350806, University of Zurich.
2022
- Journal Article
  - Mikalonytė, Elzė Sigutė; Kneer, Markus (2022). Can Artificial Intelligence Make Art?: Folk Intuitions as to whether AI-driven Robots Can Be Viewed as Artists and Produce Art. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interactio, 11(4):1-19.
  - Kneer, Markus; Skoczen, Izabela (2022). Outcome effects, moral luck and the hindsight bias. Cognition, 232:105258.
  - Hannikainen, Ivar R; Tobia, Kevin P; de Almeida, Guilherme da F C F; Struchiner, N; Kneer, Markus; Bystranowski, P; Dranseika, V; Strohmaier, N; Bensinger, S; Dolinina, K; Janik, B; Lauraityte, Egle; Laakasuo, M; Liefgreen, A; Neiders, I; Prochnicki, M; Rosas, A; Sundvall, J; Zuradzki, Tomasz (2022). Coordination and expertise foster legal textualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(44):e2206531119.
  - Kneer, Markus; Hannikainen, Ivar R (2022). Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas. Cognition and Emotion, 36(1):137-153.
- Book Section
  - Kneer, Markus (2022). Contextualism vs. Relativism: More Empirical Data. In: Wyatt, Jeremy; Zakkou, Julia; Zeman, Dan. Perspectives on Taste : Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 109-140.
  - Güver, Levin; Kneer, Markus (2022). Causation and the silly norm effect. In: Magen, Stefan; Prochownik, Karolina. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law. London: Bloomsbury, Epub ahead of print.
  - Kneer, Markus (2022). Reasonableness on the Clapham Omnibus: Exploring the Outcome-Sensitive Folk Concept of Reasonable. In: Bystranowski, Piotr; Janik, Bartosz; Próchnicki, Maciej. Judicial decision-making : integrating empirical and theoretical perspectives. Cham: Springer, 25-48.
- Conference or Workshop item
  - Tolmeijer, Suzanne; Christen, Markus; Kandul, Serhiy; Kneer, Markus; Bernstein, Abraham (2022). Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022 - 5 May 2022. ACM Press, 1-17.
- Working Paper
  - Olier, Jan Garcia; Kneer, Markus (2022). Ordinary causal attributions, norms, and gradability. PhilPapers GAROCA-7, University of Zurich.
2021
- Journal Article
  - Frisch, Lisa Katharina; Kneer, Markus; Krueger, Joachim Israel; Ullrich, Johannes (2021). The effect of outcome severity on moral judgment and interpersonal goals of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(7):1158-1171.
  - Kneer, Markus (2021). Predicates of personal taste: empirical data. Synthese, 199(3-4):6455-6471.
  - Stuart, Michael T; Kneer, Markus (2021). Guilty Artificial Minds: Folk Attributions of Mens Rea and Culpability to Artificially Intelligent Agents. PACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2):Article No.: 363.
  - Kneer, Markus (2021). Can a Robot Lie? Exploring the Folk Concept of Lying as Applied to Artificial Agents. Cognitive Science, 45(10):e13032.
  - Kneer, Markus (2021). Predicates of personal taste, semantic incompleteness, and necessitarianism. Linguistics and Philosophy, 44(5):981-1011.
  - Kneer, Markus (2021). Norms of assertion in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(37):e2105365118.
  - Hannikainen, Ivar R; Tobia, Kevin P; de Almeida, Guilherme da F C F; Donelson, Raff; Dranseika, Vilius; Kneer, Markus; et al (2021). Are There Cross‐Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law. Cognitive Science, 45(8):e13024.
  - Cova, Florian; Strickland, Brent; Abatista, Angela; Allard, Aurélien; et al; Kneer, Markus; Reuter, Kevin (2021). Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(1):9-44.
- Book Section
  - Kneer, Markus; Colaço, David; Joshua, Alexander; Edouard, Machery (2021). On second thought: Reflections on the Reflection Defense. In: Lombrozo, Tania; Knobe, Joshua; Nichols, Shaun. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 4. New York: Oxford University Press, 257-295.
  - Kneer, Markus (2021). Success and Knowledge in Action: Saving Anscombe’s Account of Intentionality. In: Ciecierski, Tadeusz; Grabarczyk, Pawel. Context Dependence in Language, Action, and Cognition. Berlin: De Gruyter, 131-154.

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