[SydPhil] HPS Seminar Tonight

[Debbie Castle]

Dear All

Just a reminder that tonight's HPS talk
Living with Blame
Victoria McGeer
vmcgeer at princeton.edu<mailto:vmcgeer at princeton.edu>

Blame is a pervasive moral-psychological phenomenon that presents philosophers with a normative dilemma.  On the one hand, reacting negatively to wrongdoing seems an important feature of what we owe to one another as members of a moral community. On the other hand, there are characteristic features of blame (an angry punitiveness) that make it normatively suspect.  In this talk, I review two standard responses to this dilemma that are as opposed in their methodological commitments as they are in their substantive conclusions.  I find both responses dissatisfying, arguing for a third way forward that avoids the methodological deficiencies of the previous responses and is substantively more rewarding.

Will be held in the
NEW LAW ANNEX SR 442
CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS
6.30pm

All the best


Debbie Castle | Administration Officer
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