Workshop on Elinor Mason's Ways to be Blameworthy: An Account of the Relationship between Moral Concepts and Responsibility

March 5, 2018 - March 6, 2018
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Stora konferensrummet (H821), 8th floor
Lundgrensgatan 7
Gothenburg
Sweden

Sponsor(s):

  • Lund-Gothenburg Responsibility Project

Speakers:

Stockholm University
Stockholm University
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
University of Gothenburg
Tulane University
Ohio Northern University
(unaffiliated)
University of Colorado, Boulder (PhD)
Linkoping University

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Stockholm University

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Workshop with Elinor Mason on her forthcoming Ways to be Blameworthy (Oxford University Press). Commentators include Gunnar Björnsson (Stockholm, Gothenburg), Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Andreas Brekke Carlsson (Oslo), Ragnar Francén (Gothenburg), Robert Hartman (Gothenburg), Kristin Mickelson (Gothenburg) and Andras Szigeti (Linköping).

Elinor Mason is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She has broad interests in moral philosophy, ranging across normative ethics, moral responsibility, feminism, meta-ethics and practical ethics. See https://sites.google.com/site/elinormasonphilosophy/home

Preliminary schedule:

Monday

10:45–12:00 1. Introduction

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:15 2. Subjective rightness

14:15-14:45 Coffee break

14:45–16:00 3. Trying to do well by morality

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15–17:30 4. Ordinary praise- and blameworthiness

Tuesday

10:45–12:00 5. Praise and blame 

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:15 6. Excuses

14:15-14:45 Coffee break

14:45–16:00 7. Exemptions

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15–17:30 8. Taking responsibility

18:30- Workshop dinner

To participate, contact Gunnar Björnsson

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February 25, 2018, 6:45pm CET

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