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Austria

Biography

I am a researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz, Austria. Currently, I am working at the University of Tokyo, where I am leading a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project.

My main areas of research are metaethics and moral psychology. In particular, I am interested in the validity and metaethical relevance of empirical studies on morality (such as studies on folk moral objectivism, the evolution of morality, and moral judgements’ relation to emotions).

Further research interests include basic needs, distributive justice, environmental ethics and the philosophy of Albert Camus.

My articles have been published in journals such as Synthese, Inquiry and Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Most of them can be downloaded at Publications.

I have also written two books, both published by Routledge: "A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism" (2022) and “Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences” (2018).

Activities

Employment (9)

Austrian Science Fund: Graz, AT

2020-10 to present | Project Researcher (FWF Standalone Project Intergenerational Climate Justice and Basic Needs)
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Thomas Pölzler

University of Graz: Graz, AT

2019-05 to present | Researcher and Lecturer (Philosophy)
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Thomas Pölzler

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Tokyo, JP

2021-10 to 2022-09 | Principle Investigator (JSPS Project Basic Needs in Normative Theories: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Folk Intuitions)
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FWF Austrian Science Fund: Charleston, US

2018-01 to 2019-12 | Principle Investigator (FWF Schrödinger Project How to Measure Moral Realism)
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Thomas Pölzler

FWF Austrian Science Fund: Graz, AT

2018-12 to 2019-05 | Principle Investigator (FWF Schrödinger Project How to Measure Moral Realism)
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Thomas Pölzler

University of Graz: Graz, AT

2014-03 to 2018-10 | Researcher and Lecturer (Philosophy)
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Thomas Pölzler

Austrian Academy of Sciences: Graz, AT

2016-08-01 to 2017-06-30 | Project Researcher (ÖAW Project EE-Con)
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Thomas Pölzler

Climate and Energy Fund: Graz, AT

2014-11-01 to 2015-02-28 | Research Assistant (Climate and Energy Fund Project RE-ADJUST)
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Thomas Pölzler

Campus Wien West: Vienna, AT

2013-09 to 2015-01 | Teacher for Theory of Knowledge
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Thomas Pölzler

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Graz: Graz, AT

2006-10 to 2015-04 | Dr. phil. (Austrian PhD) in Philosophy, University of Graz (Philosophy)
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Thomas Pölzler

University of Graz: Graz, AT

2010-10 to 2012-10 | MA in Political, Economic and Legal Philosophy (Philosophy)
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Thomas Pölzler

University of Graz: Graz, AT

2002-10 to 2006-05 | Mag. phil. (Austrian MA) in Philosophy (Philosophy)
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Thomas Pölzler

Works (50 of 60)

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Moral progress, knowledge and error: Do people believe in moral objectivity?

Philosophical Psychology
2024-11-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Lieuwe Zijlstra; Jacob Dijkstra
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Broad, subjective, relative: the surprising folk concept of basic needs

Philosophical Studies
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Tobu Tomabechi; Ivar R. Hannikainen
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Thought experiments and experimental ethics

Inquiry
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Norbert Paulo
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Basic Needs

Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789400767300
Part of ISBN: 9789400767300
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Thomas Pölzler

Review of Joel Marks’s “Reason and Ethics: The Case Against Objective Value”

Philosophical Quarterly
2023 | Book review
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Thomas Pölzler

How to Do Empirical Political Philosophy: A Case Study of Miller’s Argument for Needs-Based Justice

Erkenntnis
2023-11-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Sebo, Jeff: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism

Routledge
2022-12-16 | Book
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Thomas Pölzler

The typicality effect in basic needs

Synthese
2022-09-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Ivar R. Hannikainen
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Natural Hazards under Climate Change Conditions: A Case Study of Expectations and their Normative Significance in Protecting Alpine Communities

Natural Hazards Review
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Florian Ortner; Lukas H. Meyer; Oliver Sass; Miriam Hofer
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Should morality be abolished? An empirical challenge to the argument from intolerance

Philosophical Psychology
2022-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Jennifer Cole Wright; Thomas Pölzler
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Implicit Metaethical Intuitions: Validating and Employing a New IAT Procedure

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2021-11-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1878-5158
Part of ISSN: 1878-5166
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Thomas Pölzler

The Relativistic Car: Applying Metaethics to the Debate about Self-Driving Vehicles

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
2021-07-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Bloomsbury, 2020

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
2021-07-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Benedikt Namdar; Thomas Pölzler
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Basic needs in normative contexts

Philosophy Compass
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Teaching & learning guide for: Basic needs in normative contexts

Philosophy Compass
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Insufficient Effort Responding in Experimental Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 4
2020-11-01 | Book chapter
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Thomas Pölzler

Basic Needs and Sufficiency: The Foundations of Intergenerational Justice

The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics
2020-10-01 | Book chapter
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Thomas Pölzler

An Empirical Argument against Moral Non-Cognitivism

Inquiry
2020-07-23 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
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Against Overgeneralisation Objections to the Argument from Moral Disagreement

South African Journal of Philosophy
2020-07-02 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
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X-Phi and Impartiality Thought Experiments: Investigating the Veil of Ignorance

Diametros
2020-05-12 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
grade
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Review of Robin Attfield’s “Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction.”

2019 | Book review
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Thomas Pölzler

Anti-Realist Pluralism: a New Approach to Folk Metaethics

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2019-09-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1878-5158
Part of ISSN: 1878-5166
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Thomas Pölzler

Open borders and the ideality of approaches

European journal of analytic philosophy
2019-07-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Camus on the Value of Art

Philosophia
2019-05 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Empirical research on folk moral objectivism

Philosophy Compass
2019-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler; Jennifer Cole Wright
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Insufficient Effort Responding in Experimental Philosophy, Part II: Survey

2019-02 | Online resource
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Thomas Pölzler

Sich besser fühlen dank analytischer Philosophie

2019-02 | Online resource
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Thomas Pölzler

Insufficient Effort Responding in Experimental Philosophy, Part I: Recommendations

2019-01 | Online resource
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Thomas Pölzler

Ethics and Risks: Approaches and Issues

Ethical Perspectives
2018-12 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Review of Kieran Setiya’s “Midlife: A Philosophical Guide.”

2018-12 | Book review
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Thomas Pölzler

Special Issue on “Ethics and Risks”

Ethical Perspectives
2018-12 | Journal issue
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Thomas Pölzler

How to Determine whether Evolution Debunks Moral Realism

Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik
2018-12-01 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Review of Iddo Landau’s “Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World.”

2018-11 | Book review
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Thomas Pölzler

Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser: Experimentelle Philosophie und die Qualität empirischer Daten

2018-10 | Online resource
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Thomas Pölzler

Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences

Routledge
2018-06-30 | Book
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Thomas Pölzler

How to Measure Moral Realism

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2018-06-02 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

The Effects of Morality on Acting against Climate Change

The End of Morality
2018-05 | Book chapter
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Thomas Pölzler

Camus’ Feeling of the Absurd

The Journal of Value Inquiry
2018-05-30 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Can the Empirical Sciences Contribute to the Moral Realism/Anti-Realism Debate?

Synthese
2017 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Entschädigung für historisches Unrecht: Das Argument des anhaltenden Unrechts

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
2017 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Lastenteilung in der europäischen Asylpolitik

Wem gehört das Klima?
2017 | Book chapter
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Thomas Pölzler

Natural Hazards and the Normative Significance of Expectations in Protecting Alpine Communities

European Geosciences Union General Assembly
2017 | Conference abstract
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Thomas Pölzler

Unsere Verantwortung gegenüber Flüchtlingen

Wem gehört das Klima?
2017 | Book chapter
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Thomas Pölzler

Introduction to the Special Issue on Legitimate Expectations

Moral Philosophy and Politics
2017-12-01 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler

Ethical but Upsetting Geoscience Research: A Case Study

Annals of Geophysics
2017-11-14 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
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On the Contribution of Philosophical and Geoscientific Inquiry to Geoethics (qua Applied Ethics)

Annals of Geophysics
2017-10-16 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
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Are moral judgements adaptations? Three reasons why it is so difficult to tell

South African Journal of Philosophy
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Pölzler
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Art in the Face of the Absurd

Contributions of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium
2016 | Conference paper
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Thomas Pölzler

Further Problems with Projectivism

South African Journal of Philosophy
2016 | Journal article
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Thomas Pölzler
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Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Ethical theory and moral practice. (1)
Review activity for Journal of value inquiry. (2)
Review activity for Philosophia. (1)
Review activity for Review of philosophy and psychology. (1)