Maureen Sie

Linocut portrait by Ivo van Leeuwen

Part of the portrait series Women in Academia

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"My research areas are moral psychology, philosophy of action and (meta-)ethics with a special focus on the developments in behavioral, cognitive and neuroscience. Center topics are moral responsibility, free will, and deliberative self-control, with a focus on the important, role of moral sentiments and emotions such as resentment, blame, indignation, and their positive counterparts.

My academic career involves research on love as a source of morality, hypocrisy, implicit bias, and articulating a model of human agency that does justice to the often automatic and unreflective aspects of our interactions with the world: the traffic participation model of human agency. In all these cases I defend that the role of reasoning and awareness in our lives might be different from what many of us are inclined to think.

A a professor of Philosophy of Moral Agency at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, I supervise PhDs, Master’s and Bachelor’s students. I teach courses to philosophy and non-philosophy students - all on a variety of topics ranging from post-truth talk to the concept of personality in psychology.

Besides various functions within the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences and responsibilities within the Department of Philosophy and its research center TiLPS, I am also chair of the board of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy and of the board of the International School for Philosophy."