Maureen Sie

Maureen Sie is a Full Professor of Philosophy of Moral Agency at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, and director of the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, & Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). She specializes in philosophy of action, moral psychology, and meta-ethics, with a focus on moral responsibility, free will, self-control, and the adaptive unconscious. Her work bridges empirical findings in neuroscience and behavioral sciences with philosophical theories of agency and ethics.

Her recent publications analyze implicit bias, moral hypocrisy, and emotions as foundational to moral practices, including their role in societal phenomena like #MeToo. She has received a prestigious NWO grant (2009-2014) to study how unconscious influences affect moral agency. She also chairs organizations like the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the International School for Philosophy (ISVW), emphasizing public engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Key Research Themes:
  • Moral responsibility and neuroscience
  • Celebrity as moral exemplars
  • Implicit bias and social categorization
  • Emotional foundations of ethics
  • Critique of free will as illusion

Notable awards include the LOT Grotevragenprijs (2023). Her projects, such as the GROWTH project on distributed agency, explore legal and ethical dimensions of collective responsibility in AI contexts.