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Dr. Hanno Sauer (PI)

I am an Associate Professor of philosophy at Utrecht University. My main research topics are in moral psychology and empirically informed meta-ethics. I am interested in whether and how we can bring empirical data from diverse disciplines such as social psychology, neuroscience or cognitive science to bear on questions of normative and/or meta-ethical interest, and what the limits of this approach are.

Contact: h.c.sauer@uu.nl

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Dr. Karolina Kudlek (PostDoc)

Prior to joining the project, I completed a PhD in philosophy of technology at the University of Twente. I also hold a master’s and bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. My general areas of interest include normative ethics, bioethics, philosophy of technology, and moral psychology. In my previous work, I largely focused on the ethical assessment of new and emerging technologies, such as human and moral bioenhancement. I’m especially interested in how ethical theory can provide guidance for the bioethical debate on improving moral decision-making and behavior.

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Charlie Blunden (PhD Student)

I have studied philosophy at the University of Reading, UK, and I have a research master’s degree in philosophy from Utrecht University. I’m interested in the interdisciplinary area between political philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics. I’m particularly interested in problems of ignorance and irrationality in democracies, and in how different institutional environments can scaffold or undermine human cognition and motivation.

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Paul Rehren (PhD Student)

Before joining the project, I studied philosophy and physics at Bielefeld University, Germany, and completed a master’s degree in liberal studies at Duke University, USA. I’m interested in various topics in moral psychology, including moral judgment and decision-making, the psychology of punishment, free will, and moral reasoning. I also think a lot about how empirical research can (or can’t) be used in philosophical arguments.

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Dr. Cecilie Eriksen (Affiliated Researcher)

I have a master’s degree in philosophy and a PhD in law, both from Aarhus University, Denmark. My main research area is moral philosophy (normative ethics and meta-ethics), and I also have an interest in moral anthropology and legal history. Recently, I have published on the topics of moral change as well as the thinking of K.E. Løgstrup and the later Wittgenstein.

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Till Armbruster (Research Assistant)

I studied physics and philosophy at LMU Munich, and I’m currently completing my master’s degree in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, before starting my master’s degree in philosophy in 2023. I’m interested in the fields of ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of science and especially in the intersections between them. Currently I’m thinking a lot about scientific and social revolutions and theories of justice in the light of the climate crisis.

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Max van den Bos (Research Intern)

Currently, I’m a master’s Applied Ethics student and pre-master’s History of Politics and Society student at the University of Utrecht. I’m joining this project as a research intern out of my interest in questions regarding decision-making and free will, as well as societal development and human behavior (what moves them and why). Additionally, my interest goes out to topics such as history, economics, the ‘digital age’, and psychology/anthropology.

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Past members

Matilde Liberti (visiting PhD student)

Benedict Lane (visiting PhD student)

Bernadette Weber (visiting PhD student)

Dario Cecchini (visiting PhD student)

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