[SydPhil] Michelle Ciurria at UNSW Philosophy seminar

[Markos Valaris]

Hi All,

You are invited to a Philosophy Seminar hosted by the School of Humanities & Languages, a presentation by Dr Michelle Ciurria (UNSW) titled:

Responsibility in conversation: A functionalist account

Abstract: This paper defends a conversational-functionalist account of moral responsibility. It argues that moral responsibility attributions are (1) part of a conversational practice in which we express the reactive attitudes to another person, and (2) this practice functions to bring to light relevant information about the target agent's moral properties, which serves to enhance moral understanding and agency in the conversational participants. This account combines a conversational model of responsibility with a functionalist justification for moral attributions: they're justified ifthey're likely to enhance moral understanding and agency in the conversational participants.

Date: 13 September, 2016
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Location: 209 Morven Brown, UNSW Kensington



Markos Valaris
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
School of Humanities and Languages
University of New South Wales
Phone: +(61) 2 9385 2760 (office)
http://www.markosvalaris.net

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