Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20th Anniversary Conference
Dimensions of Responsibility
Department of Political and Social Sciences
University of Pavia – 8-9 June 2017
Keynote Speakers
Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia/ University of Oslo)
Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Antony Duff (University of Stirling)
The idea of responsibility features prominently across a number of
debates in practicalphilosophy, including legal, political, moral
philosophy, and applied ethics. This conference aims to bring together
scholars from within different philosophical traditions to explore the
different dimensions along which the many issues concerning the idea
of individual and collective responsibility plays out and discuss its
normative implications for the establishment of individual and
collective rights and duties.
Call for papers
Paper proposals are welcome that engage, inter alia, with the following issues:
- Individual and collective agency as pre-conditions of responsibility
- Responsibility, free will, intentionality, and luck
- Theories of responsibility: backward-looking and forward-looking
- Responsibility and forms of social blame
- Responsibility and punishment: justifications, excuses, and
extenuating circumstances
- Epistemic limitations to the attribution of responsibility
- Factors hindering the attribution of responsibility:
irrationality, cognitive biases, and self-deception
- Human enhancement and responsibility
- Responsibility for remedying injustices
- Attributive responsibility and distributive justice
- Responsibility and equality of opportunity
- Individual responsibility for cumulative harm
- Responsibility in moral psychology
Paper proposals (1,000 words max) should be prepared for blind review
and submitted electronically by 9th January 2017 to the following
e-mail address: [log in to unmask]
Decisions will be made and communicated by the end of February 2017.
Conference attendance is free of charge but all selected speakers will
have to pay for their travel, meals and accommodation. Coffee/tea,
soft drinks, and light refreshments will be served throughout the
conference. Accommodation in university colleges is available to paper
givers. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually.
Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.
For more information, please see the conference website:
http://etmp2017.wixsite.com/home All correspondence (including paper
submissions and additional inquiries) should be addressed to the local
organizers, Dr Michele Bocchiola and Prof Emanuela Ceva, at the
conference email address: [log in to unmask]
The conference is sponsored by Springer and the Department of
Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia.
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