CV Dr. (des) Pascale Willemsen

Current Position Postdoctoral researcher College London Division of and Language Sciences 26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP

Areas of Specialization of Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Experimental Philosophy

Areas of Competence Ethics, Philosophy of Action

Education 01/2014-06/2017 PhD in Philosophy -University Thesis: “Investigating the Role of Causal Responsibility for the Attribution of Moral Responsibility” Committee: Prof. Albert Newen (first supervisor), Prof. Edouard Machery (second supervisor), Prof. Corinna Mieth, Prof. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. James Wilberding Grade: summa cum laude (highest possible distinction)

09/2015-11/2015 Visiting Fellow, Yale University Host: Prof. Joshua Knobe

09/2013 MSc. in Philosophy of Science London School of and Political Sciences, London Thesis: “Folk theory may be a myth, but it's a myth we live in. A critical evaluation of Daniel Dennett's intentional stance”

09/2012 M.A. in Philosophy M.A. in Linguistics and Communication Studies RWTH University, Aachen Thesis: “Internalism in the Action Theory”

08/2010 B.A. in Philosophy B.A. in Linguistics and Communication Studies RWTH Aachen University, Aachen Thesis: “The Modern Business Ethics within the Boundaries of Pure Reason: Maximizing Profits versus Moral Action in Peter Ullrich's Integrative Business Ethics”

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles 2017 Willemsen, Pascale. „A methodological reflection on the experimental philosophy of moral responsibility and determinism”, under review.

Willemsen, Pascale; Kaspar, Kai; Newen, Albert. “A new look at the attribution of moral responsibility: The underestimated relevance of social roles”, in Philosophical Psychology, in press.

Wiegmann, Alex; Rutschmann, Ronja; Willemsen, Pascale. “Empirically Investigating the Concept of Lying”, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. doi: 10.1007/s40961.017-0112-z.

Wiegmann, Alex; Willemsen, Pascale: “How the truth can make a great lie: An empirical investigation of lying by falsely implicating”, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2017, pp. 3516-3521.

Stephan, Simon; Willemsen, Pascale; Gerstenberg, Tobias: Marbles in inaction: Counterfactual simulation and causation by omissions”, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2017, pp. 1132-1137.

2016 Willemsen, Pascale. “Omissions without Expectations – A New Approach to the Things We Failed to Do”, in Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1284-9.

Willemsen, Pascale; Reuter, Kevin (2016). “Is there really an omission effect?”, in Philosophical Psychology, 29(8). doi:10.1080/09515089.2016.1225194.

Talks 2017 Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility 2nd Bi-annual Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group 16 – 18 November, University of Osnabrueck

Symposium: The Pragmatics of Lying Annual Conference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology 14 – 18 August 2017, University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom)

Are Moral Judgments Grounded in Causal Judgments? Annual Conference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology 14 – 18 August 2017, University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom)

Omissions, Causal Explanations, and the Underspecification Problem The Experimental Philosophy of Morality and Causation – Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and 13 June, Ruhr-University Bochum

2016 I must although I can't!? A pragmatically grounded two-level theory of ‘ought implies can’ Experimental Moral Psychology and Philosophy 18 – 20 November, Humboldt Universität zu

The philosophical trilemma of moral responsibility for omissions – and how to solve it Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie 16 November, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Omissions and expectations. Two studies on how moral and causal judgments depend on expectations. Department for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Causal Cognition Lab University College London (United Kingdom)

Why you can be blamed for the things you did not do Annual Conference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology 10 – 13 August 2016, University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)

I must although I can't!? A pragmatically grounded two-level theory of ‘ought implies can’ Annual Conference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology 10 – 13 August 2016, University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)

2015 Omissions without Expectations – A New Approach to the Metaphysics of Things We Failed to Do First Conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany 26 – 28 November 2015, Ruhr-University Bochum

Is there really an omission bias? Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference 2015 11 – 12 September 2015, Buffalo State University (USA)

Is there really an omission bias? Annual Conference of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology 2015 14 – 17 July 2015, (Estonia)

Are Omissions on Par with Actions? 6th Conference of Experimental Philosophy Group UK: Joining Forces of Philosophy and the Empirical Sciences to Tackle Social Injustices 29 – 30 June 2015, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

2014 Why Social Norms Matter for the Attribution of Moral Responsibility The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues in Moral Psychology 9 – 11 October, (Lithuania)

Dennett’s Concept of Rationality XXIII. Congress of the German Society for Philosophy 2014 in Münster 28 September – 02 October

Poster Presentations 2014 The Dual-Process Model of Moral Reasoning. Suggestions for Future Research The Future of Social Cognition 12-14 June, Ruhr-University Bochum

Teaching and Supervision Experience 2017 Experimental Philosophy of Morality MA Philosophy and MSc. Cognitive Science 1st year, taught in English

2014 Agency and Moral Responsibility MA Philosophy and MSc. Cognitive Science 1st year, taught

I was responsible for developing the schedule and selecting relevant texts, assigning and moderating student presentations and in-class discussions, as well as the supervision of student essays. Students in the master’s program Cognitive Science have very divers academic backgrounds, ranging from philosophy over linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to and .

I am currently co-supervising a bachelor’s dissertation in Experimental Philosophy at University College London, focusing on moral and causal responsibility attribution for omissions in medical care. I am further supervising a master’s dissertation in Cognitive Science at Ruhr-University Bochum, addressing the effect of religiosity on moral behavior.

Committee Work 2014-2016 Member of the Vorstand (Mittelbauvertreterin) of the Institute of Philosophy II

2014-2016 Member of the Promotionsausschuss of the department

Grants, Awards, and External Funding 06/2017 Postdoctoral research fellowship for a six-month stay at the University College London (Host: David Lagnado, Causal Cognition Lab) Research School Plus at Ruhr-University Bochum, German Research Council (DFG)

05/2017 2810 € granted for organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on experimental philosophy of morality and causation Research School Plus at Ruhr-University Bochum

11/2016 9,555 € granted for interdisciplinary empirical research Leibniz Science Campus

10/2016 4,000 € granted for inviting Karolina Prochownik (PhD student from Krakow University, Poland) to Bochum Research School Plus at

08/2016 3,260 € granted for inviting Prof. Justin Sytsma (University of Wellington, New Zealand) to Bochum Research School Plus at Ruhr University Bochum

09/2015 7,695 € granted for organizing the first conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany Research School Plus at Ruhr University Bochum

01/2015 -06/2017 Research Fellowship Ruhr University Bochum

01/2015 - 06/2017 Full PhD Fellowship Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

07/2014 International Realization Budget ,695 € granted for organizing the first conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany Research School Plus at Ruhr University Bochum 01/2014-12/2014 Full PhD Fellowship Ruhr University Bochum

11/2012 Springorum Gedenkmünze of RWTH Aachen University for outstanding scientific accomplishments

10/2012-09/2013 Full International Fellowship German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

01/2011-09/2012 Full Scholarship German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

01/2010 Dean’s List of RWTH Aachen University, awarding the 3% best students in the respective disciplines

Social Service Arbeiterkind.de e.V. BeBuddy Program of Ruhr-University Bochum

Other Activities and Commitment Co-founder and member of the scientific board of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany, together with Prof. Albert Newen and Dr. Kevin Reuter https://sites.google.com/site/xphigroupgermany/home

Member of Society of Women in Philosophy

Member of European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

2018 Organisation of the 9th annual workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK 14 – 16 June 2018, at University College London

2017 Organisation of a book symposium on Edouard Machery’s new book “Philosophy within its proper bounds” 18 December at Ruhr University Bochum

Organisation of 1-day workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Morality and Causation—Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Law 13 June at Ruhr University Bochum

2016 Organisation of 1.5-day workshop on Experimental Philosophy: Methods & New Directions & 1-day conference on Empirical Moral Psychology, 18 – 20 November 2016 at Humboldt-University Berlin

2015 Organisation of the first conference on Experimental Philosophy in Germany, Investigating the Nature and our Understanding of Causality, Morality, Language, Mind, and Aesthetics 26 – 28 November 2015, Ruhr University Bochum

Academic References

Prof. Albert Newen (Dissertation supervisor) Institute for Philosophy II, Center of Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution Ruhr University Bochum [email protected]

Prof. Edouard Machery (External referee of dissertation) Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh [email protected]

Prof. Joshua Knobe (Host during research stay) Department of Psychology, Department of Philosophy Yale University [email protected]

Dr. Kevin Reuter (Co-author) Institute for Philosophy University of Bern [email protected]

Dr. Alex Wiegmann (Co-author) Department of Psychology University of Goettingen [email protected]