Speakers

Professor Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University) works in normative ethics, moral psychology, and feminist philosophy. Her most recent books are a collection of previously published essays titled Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP), and a newer set of essays titled Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living (OUP). She is also the author of Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (OUP), the editor of Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (OUP), and series editor for OUP's Studies in Feminist Philosophy. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science in 2020.

Professor Gunnar Björnsson (Stockholm University) has recently led a research projects on moral motivation (in Gothenburg) and responsibility in complex systems (in Umeå). He also coordinated the Gothenburg Responsibility Project from its inception in 2011 until 2015. His current research project, Explanations of Responsibility, is funded by the SRC and is concerned with developing a general theory of moral responsibility and the psychology of responsibility attributions.

Doctor Jules Holroyd (Sheffield University) works on the various ways in which we, and institutions in which we participate, sustain injustices, and what to do about it. Her research has examined notions such a implicit bias, discrimination, collective vices, and integrity in criminal justice. This research spans the topics of political philosophy, moral psychology, and social philosophy (in particular, feminist philosophy and philosophy of race). This work has informed policy and practice, including reforms to parental leave policies, hiring processes, and training for the judiciary in England and Wales. Her present work focuses on praise, and its oppressive dimensions: how patterns of praising can entrench stereotypes and oppressive norms.

Professor Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati & University of the Basque Country) works on issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science, for example: shame; empathy and its moral relevance; psychopathy and moral responsibility or epistemic conditions for responsibility. She is the author of several books on empathy and neurofeminism, and her forthcoming book The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works further explores questions on empathy and taking the perspective of others.

Spencer Albert -- Collective Responsibility and Individual Obligations in cases of Historical Injustice

Dominik Boll -- Responsible Persons, Positive Reactive Attitudes, and the Function of Taking Responsibility

Carme Isern-Mas -- Friendship or blame: how to publicly respond when the immoral is your friend

Lel Jones -- Microaggression Accountability: Blameworthiness, Blame, and Why it Matters

Antti Kauppinen -- Taking Responsibility in Two Directions

Carline Klijnman -- Fault No-Fault Responsibility for Implicit Bias: A Response to Heather Battaly

Naomi Kloosterboer -- Taking Responsibility for Your Values

Benjamin Matheson -- Agent-Regret and Apologies for Blameless Accidental Harms

Kristoffer Moody -- The Confabulationist Threat to Moral Responsibility -- and a sketch of how to respond to it

Eliana Peck -- Non/Culpable Complicity

Jules Salomone-Sehr -- Complicity: A Minimalist Account for Our Maximally Messy Social World

Daniel Telech -- Pride as a Reactive Attitude

Eliza Wells -- Social Roles and the Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility