I am an associate professor of philosophy in the Ethics Institute within the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. I specialize in moral psychology and critical social theory, and especially on issues of autonomy, agency, and normativity, with special attention to the role of technology and institutions in providing (or withholding) "scaffolding" for the autonomy competencies of individuals. The working title of the book I am currently writing is "Autonomy Gaps". I edited a special issue of Philosophical Explorations entitled "Free Will as Part of Nature: Habermas and His Critics" (March 2…
I am an associate professor of philosophy in the Ethics Institute within the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. I specialize in moral psychology and critical social theory, and especially on issues of autonomy, agency, and normativity, with special attention to the role of technology and institutions in providing (or withholding) "scaffolding" for the autonomy competencies of individuals. The working title of the book I am currently writing is "Autonomy Gaps". I edited a special issue of Philosophical Explorations entitled "Free Will as Part of Nature: Habermas and His Critics" (March 2007, with commentaries by Searle, Quante, Clarke, and Schroeder) and co-edited, with John Christman, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2005). With Lily Frank and Andreas Spahn, I am currently editing a volume on The Ethics of Behaviour Change Technologies.
