Research

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Areas of specialisation

• Epistemology

• Doxastic responsibility

• Philosophy of Irrationality

 

Areas of interest

• Philosophy of action

• Metaphysics

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Curriculum vitae

 

2020 

Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Zurich

Title: Responsibility for Irrational Beliefs
 

Since 09/2018

Employed in the ‘Cognitive Irrationality Project’

Swiss National Science Foundation

University of Zurich

 

09/2015 – 08/2018

Employed in the ‘Cognitive Irrationality Project’

Swiss National Science Foundation

University of Basel

 

09/2018 – 09/2019

Swiss National Science Foundation Doc. Mobility Fellow “Irrational, Yet Responsible”, Harvard University, mentored by Susanna Rinard

 

09/2012 – 08/2014

Master of Arts in Philosophy (Research)
University of Amsterdam
Master Thesis: ‘An Inquiry Into The Practical Implications of Randian Egoism’, supervised by. Dr. Gijs van Donselaar, June 2011

 

09/2009 – 06/2012

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English Language and Literature University of Geneva

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Selected publications

 

van Loon, M. (2021). "Implicit Bias: a Sin of Omission?”, Philosophical Explorations 24, 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2021.1923784

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van Loon, M. (2020). Le blâme pour les croyances peut il se passer d’agence?

Klēsis Revue Philosophique, 45.

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van Loon, M. (2018). Responsibility for Self-Deception

Les ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum, 3 (2), 119–134. 

 

van Loon, M. (2018). Biais Cognitifs (Entrée Académique)

Encyclopédie Philosophique en Ligne, ed. M. Kristanek http://encyclo philo.fr/.

 

van Loon, M. (2016). Biais Cognitifs (Entrée Grand Public)

Encyclopédie Philosophique en Ligne , ed. M. Kristanek http://encyclo-philo.fr/.

 

van Loon, M. (2016). Quelques problèmes de la conception duale de la norme de l’action et de l’assertion’ (with Melanie Sarzano)

La Connaissance et ses Raisons, Paris: Collège de France.