Joel Anderson

last updated January 25, 2012

 
 

I am a researcher-lecturer (universitair docent-onderzoeker) in the Department of Philosophy (Wijbegeerte) at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.  I specialize in moral psychology and social theory, and especially on issues of autonomy, agency, and normativity.

 

Department of Philosophy

Faculty of Humanities

Utrecht University

Postal address:

Postbus 80126 *  3508 TC Utrecht

Visitors’ address: Janskerkhof 13a  3512 BL Utrecht  Phone: +31-(0)30-253-2874/-1831; fax: -2816)


I’m spending the 2010-11 year at the NIAS in Wassenaar.

Different pages of the site highlight the different areas I work in.


Teaching:

    Courses in Philosophy of mind, moral psychology, critical social theory, and moral psychology; theses I’ve (co-)directed, and ideas for new topics.


Professional activities

    Editorial work for Philosophical Explorations

    The Zeno Lectures series that I organize   

    Consulting work

    Departmental service


Blog (we’ll see...), background info about me, and links

Plus you can link to my previous page here.

Research

  1. •Personal autonomy, scaffolded autonomy, and the extended will

  2. •Autonomy gaps and the demands of modernization and/or liberalization (book project)

  3. •Citizenship, political competence, and emerging online “voting advice applications” (NWO-sponsored)

  4. •Politics of human irrationality and alternatives to “nudge paternalism”

  5. •Disability, human rights to enablement, assistive technology, and enhancement

  6. •Free will, neuroethics, and critiques of free will scepticism

  7. •Critical social theory, theoris of recognition, discourse ethics (Habermas, Honneth, and more)