A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
[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
More information can be found here. The conference will take place in Oxford, England, May 21-3, 2020. Papers (and abstracts) can be submitted here. The deadline for submissions is January 15th. We anticipate letting people know if their paper was accepted by March 1.