Research
- Decision theory
- Rationality
- Bioethics
- Cognitive Sciences
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
Current research project: Motivatonal Change
Curriculum vitae
Since 02/2025 | Postdoc (SNSF), University of Zurich |
2024 | Submission of Habilitation for obtaining the Venia Legendi in Philosophy at the University of Zurich |
2024 – 2025 | Postdoc.Mobility (SNSF), University of Oxford |
2023 – 2024 | Postdoc (SNSF), University of Zurich |
2020 – 2022 |
PhD in Philosophy, University of Zurich |
2016 – 2020 |
PhD in Behavioral Economics, University of St. Gallen |
2018 – 2020 | MSc Psychology, University of Zurich |
2018 – 2019 | CAS Teaching in Higher Education, University of St. Gallen |
2014 – 2018 | BSc Psychology (Minor Sociology; Astronomy & Astrobiology), University of Zurich |
2015 – 2016 | MA International Affairs and Governance, University of St. Gallen |
2011 – 2014 | BA Economics, University of St. Gallen |
Publications
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Publications
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2025
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Journal Article
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Breaking up rationally. The Journal of Ethics, 29(2):215-236.
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Mitigating ethical issues in training for psychedelic therapy. Neuroethics, 18(1):25.
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An integrative model of psychotherapeutic interventions based on a predictive processing framework. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 55(1):39-49.
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Mental disorder and its treatment as a transformative experience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:1-21.
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Same same but different: on psychedelic exceptionalism. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(1):92-95.
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2024
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How to make psychedelic-assisted therapy safer. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics:1-15.
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Personal psychedelic experience of psychedelic therapists during training: should it be required, optional, or prohibited?. International Review of Psychiatry, 36(8):869-878.
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The role of expectations in transformative experiences. Philosophical Psychology, 37(5):1091-1114.
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The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement. The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(7):6-12.
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Transformative experience. Philosophy Compass, 19(6):e13000.
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Giving consent to the ineffable. Neuroethics, 17(1):11.
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Informed consent under ignorance. The American Journal of Bioethics:Epub ahead of print.
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2023
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With great power comes great vulnerability: an ethical analysis of psychedelics’ therapeutic mechanisms proposed by the REBUS hypothesis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(12):826-832.
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The Role of Certainty in a Two-Person Volunteer’s Dilemma. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(4):459-469.
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Rational transformative decision-making. Synthese, 201(3):87.
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Stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophecies in the Bayesian brain. Inquiry:Epub ahead of print.
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2022
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How Psychedelic-Assisted Treatment Works in the Bayesian Brain. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13:812180.
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An Ignorance Account of Hard Choices. Res Philosophica, 99(3):321-337.
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Dissertation
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Essays on Transformative Experiences. 2022, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Monograph
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Dissecting discrimination: identifying its various faces and their sources. Wiesbaden: Springer.
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