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Pascale Willemsen, Prof. Dr.
- SNF-Professorin / SNSF professorship
- Phone
- +41 44 634 85 37
- Address
- UZH Philosophisches Seminar, Zollikerstrasse 117, CH-8008 Zürich
- Room number
- ZOA 3 315
Research
- Metaethics
- Moral Psychology
- Evaluative Language
- Applied Ethics
- Philosophy of Law
- (Folk) Concepts
- Experimental Philosophy
Teaching
Curriculum vitae
| Since 06/2025 |
100% Professor (SNSF Förderprofessur) and Principal Investigator of the SNSF Starting Grant «Shining Light on Praise» and PI of the SNSF Ambizione Grant «Investigating Thick Ethical Concepts – Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives», University of Zurich |
| 01/2022 – 05/2025 | Principal Investigator of the SNSF Ambizione Research Group «Investigating Thick Ethical Concepts – Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives» |
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09/2019 – 12/2021 |
Postdoc at the SNSF Eccellenza Research Group of Kevin Reuter |
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04/2018 – 09/2019 |
Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Chair for Philosophy of Mind, |
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10/2017 – 03/2018 |
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for Experimental Psychology, University College London |
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06/2017 – 09/2018 |
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair for Philosophy of Mind, Ruhr-University Bochum |
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2018 |
GdF Dissertation Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary dissertations at Ruhr-University Bochum, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
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01/2014 – 06/2017 |
PhD in Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Dissertation Topic: “Investigating the Role of Causal Responsibility for the Attribution of Moral Responsibility”, Committee: Albert Newen (first supervisor), Edouard Machery (second supervisor), Corinna Mieth, Tobias Schlicht, James Wilberding |
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08/2015 – 11/2015 |
Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and the Program of Cognitive Science, Yale University, Host: Joshua Knobe |
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09/2012 – 08/2013 |
MSc. in Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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10/2007 – 09/2012 |
M.A. and B.A. in Philosophy and Linguistics and Communication Studies, RWTH Aachen |
Publications
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Publications
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Journal Article
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2025
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With great(er) power comes great(er) responsibility: an intercultural investigation of the effect of social roles on moral responsibility attribution. Philosophical Psychology, 38(2):820-846.
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2024
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The polarity effect of evaluative language. Philosophical Psychology, 37(8):2158-2175.
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The polarity effect of evaluative language. Philosophical Psychology, 37(8):2158-2175.
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Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora. Language and Cognition, 16(2):263-282.
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Pain linguistics: a case for pluralism. Philosophical Quarterly, 74(1):145-168.
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2023
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Mutual entailment between causation and responsibility. Philosophical Studies, 180(12):3593-3614.
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2021
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Separating the evaluative from the descriptive: An empirical study of thick concepts. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 10(2):135-146.
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2019
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Recent empirical work on the relationship between causal judgements and norms. Philosophy Compass, 14(1):e12562.
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2018
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A new look at the attribution of moral responsibility: the underestimated relevance of social roles. Philosophical Psychology, 31(4):595-608.
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Omissions and expectations: a new approach to the things we failed to do. Synthese, 195(4):1587-1614.
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2017
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Empirically investigating the concept of lying. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34(3):591-609.
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2016
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Is there really an omission effect?. Philosophical Psychology, 29(8):1142-1159.
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Book Section
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2023
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Examining evaluativity in legal discourse: a comparative corpus-linguistic study of thick concepts. In: Prochownik, Karolina; Magen, Stefan. Advances in experimental philosophy of law. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 192-214.
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2022
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Children and adults don’t think they are free: A skeptical look at agent causationism. In: Wiegmann, Alexander; Willemsen, Pascale. Advances in experimental philosophy of causation. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 189-210.
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Introduction. In: Willemsen, Pascale; Wiegmann, Alex. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1-5.
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2020
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The relevance of alternate possibilities for moral responsibility for actions and omissions. In: Lombrozo, Tania; Knobe, Joshua; Nichols, Shaun. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. Oxford, 232-274.
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2019
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Causation attributions and corpus analysis. In: Fischer, Eugen; Curtis, Mark Douglas. Methodological advances in experimental philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 209-238.
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Conference or Workshop item
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2020
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Separability and the effect of valence: an empirical study of Thick Concepts. In: 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Online, 29 July 2020 - 1 August 2020. Cognitive Science Society, 794-800.
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2017
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How the truth can make a great lie: an empirical investigation of the folk concept of lying by falsely implicating. In: 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, 26 July 2017 - 29 July 2017. Cognitive Science Society, 3516-3521.
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Marbles in inaction: Counterfactual Simulation and Causation by Omission. In: 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, 26 Juli 2017 - 29 Juli 2017, 1132-1137.
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