Dr. Lieke Asma
Employment
2021-2028: DFG-funded project: Implizite Voreingenommenheit: Was fehlt uns? (Implicit bias: What are we missing?)
Research visit at University of Chicago January-March 2024.
2021: Teacher / supervisor at Radboud University and Erasmus University.
2018-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow at Munich School of Philosophy.
Project: Motivational and Volitional Processes of Human Integration: Philosophical and Psychological Approaches to Human Flourishing. In collaboration with the Chair of Psychology at the TUM School of Management.
2013-2018: PhD student in Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Dissertation title: Consciousness in Intentional Action.
Research visit at Florida State University February-April 2016.
Education
2009-2013: MA., Philosophy of Behavioural Science (cum laude) at Radboud University Nijmegen.
2006-2008: MSc., Cognitive Psychology at University of Twente.
2002-2007: BSc., Educational Psychology at University of Twente.
Recent academic publications:
Schützle, L. & Asma, L. J. F. (2025). Does empathy reduce implicit bias? A critical review. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10197-1
Asma, L. J. F. (2025). Explaining unconscious discrimination: misattribution and rationalization. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10061-y
Asma, L. J. F. (2024). Implicit bias, unconscious discrimination, and the nature of philosophical inquiry. In L. Schützle, B. Schellhammer, A. Yadav, C.-J. Kather, L. Thomine (Eds.) Knowledge, Participation, and Power: Epistemic Violence and Injustice in Philosophy. Transcript.
Asma, L. J. F. (2023). Implicit bias as unintentional discrimination. Synthese, 202, 129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04364-3
I also wrote a Dutch book on implicit bias, which was shortlisted for the Socrates Cup:
Asma, L. J. F. (2024). Blinde Vlekken. Hoe Impliciete Vooroordelen Je (Mis)Leiden. Amsterdam: Boom uitgevers Amsterdam.