A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Samuel Asarnow‘s “Internal Reasons and the Boy Who Cried Wolf.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics, and is available here. Ulf Hlobil has kindly agreed to contribute a critical […] Read More
[Yet another installment of Agency and Responsibility October, by Polaris Koi (University of Turku). Take it away, Polaris!] Strawson (1962) divides pleas for mitigated responsibility in two groups. The first group consists in agential pleas, in which the agent is excused or blame is mitigated […] Read More
[Another contribution to Agency & Responsibility October, this one by Marcela Herdova. Take it away, Marcela!] What is doing the work in manipulation cases, i.e. what is pushing the intuitions that the agents in these cases are not free/not responsible? Consider the following version of […] Read More
[Our next guest installment for Agency & Responsibility October, from Taylor Cyr (Samford). Take it away, Taylor!] Many of our ordinary moral judgments and practices presuppose that there can be moral luck—cases in which two agents differ in blameworthiness despite the differences between them being […] Read More
[Another entry in our Agency and Responsibility October series, by Jake Wojtowicz. Take it away, Jake!] “The mature agent… will recognize his relation to his acts in their undeliberated, and also in their unforeseen and unintended aspects. He recognizes that his identity as an agent […] Read More
Much of the ever-growing conversation concerning empathy’s moral significance has centered around cases where the target of our empathy is another person’s suffering. Today, I want to consider a puzzle that comes into sharper focus when we start to consider empathy with other sorts of […] Read More
Welcome to our book forum on Serene Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism! Below is a brief introduction to the book from Khader herself. Just a reminder: you do not need to have read the book to participate in the discussion. Feel free to ask questions about any […] Read More
[Another contribution on October’s theme of Agency & Responsibility, by Danny Weltman. Take it away, Danny!] Can one justifiably believe that, on the one hand, agent-regret is a warranted response to certain situations, but, on the other hand, survivor’s guilt isn’t? I do not think […] Read More
[Welcome to the first of our official “Agency & Responsibility October” Posts, written by Neal Tognazzini. Take it away, Neal!] In a recent NYT column, Paul Krugman draws on recent work by two political scientists to argue that our democracy is dying. The major symptom […] Read More