Moral Complicity: theory and context

When are we complicit in the wrongful actions of others? The question arises in a wide range of contexts such as medicine, war, climate change, human subject research, cyber security, and the law. This workshop aims to bring together international scholars, especially moral philosophers, to critically engage with one another’s work on complicity, from the purely theoretical to the highly applied. 

May 9, 2025

Douglas Portmore "Overdetermined Collective Harms: Complicity versus Wrongdoing"

J.L.A. Donohue "Moral Complicity and Deliberative Entitlement"

Christopher Kutz "Complicity, Intentionality, and Orientation"

Julia Nefsky and Sergio Tenenbaum "Silence, Complicity and the Division of Moral Labor"

Eric Wilkinson "Complicity in the Nation's Past Actions"

May 10, 2025

Marie-Anne Perreault "Complicity with the Oppressor"

Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa "A Unified Account of Complicity"

Gunnar Björnsson "Understanding Accountability: Responsibility, Fungible Switches, and Complicity"

Saba Bazargan-Forward "Acting Together with Different Intentions — Who is Complicit?"