CFP: Conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

Moral responsibility has consistently been a salient issue in disciplines such as 

the law, psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy. The questions about social, 

cognitive, and psychological constraints on legal and moral responsibility are 

ever-evolving with advances in technology and knowledge. This conference 

seeks to address cutting-edge applied issues in moral and legal responsibility. 

Confirmed speakers:

Keynote: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Invited: William Hirstein, Adina Roskies, Katrina Sifferd, Chandra 

Sripada, Nicole Vincent

We invite papers that fall under two broad themes.

1. Understanding moral responsibility based on changes in what we know: 

Examples of questions under this theme include, but are not limited to the 

following: What are the legal implications of fMRIs in the courtroom? Can 

neuroscience aid the courtroom in assessing moral responsibility? Do advances 

in understanding how the mind/brain works change our moral responsibility 

practices? How do practitioners’ underlying assumptions about moral 

responsibility inform their disciplinary practices?

2. Understanding moral responsibility in applied contexts: Examples of 

questions under this theme include, but are not limited to the following: Do 

personality disorders, schizophrenia, dementia, or attention-deficit disorder 

affect moral or legal responsibility? What are the implications for how we draw 

the distinction between addiction and compulsion? Between weakness of will 

and compulsion? Are we morally responsible for implicit biases? Are we legally 

and/or morally responsible for unconscious thought processes? 

To submit, please send a 1000-1200 word abstract to the gmail account: 

MRConf2015. The deadline is October 1, 2014.

Please address questions to Chris Weigel to the gmail account: weigelch.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to November 1. See the Call for Papers for more details about how to submit.