Welcome!

I am a researcher at the Section Moral and Political Philosophy of the University of Graz and in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project IMPARTIAL. Since December 2023, I have mostly been on sick leave due to severe ME/CFS.

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 Philosophical Studies, Synthese and Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Most of them can be downloaded at Papers.

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).

I am on Google Scholar, PhilPeople, ORCID, and ResearchGate. You can reach me at thomas.poelzler(at)uni-graz.at.

Besides philosophy, I like travelling, soccer, table tennis, hiking, literature, music, TV shows and films. When I travel I sometimes take pictures. A selection of pictures can be found here.