ETMP 2017

Conference Theme

The idea of responsibility features prominently across a number of debates in practical philosophy, including legal, political, moral philosophy and applied ethics. This conference aims to bring together scholars from within different philosophical traditions to explore the different dimensions along which the many issues concerning the idea of individual and collective responsibility plays out and discuss its normative implications for the establishment of individual and collective rights and duties.

Paper Proposal

Paper proposals are welcome that engage, inter alia, with the following issues:

• Individual and collective agency as pre-conditions of responsibility

• Responsibility, free will, intentionality, and luck

• Theories of responsibility: backward-looking and forward-looking

• Responsibility and forms of social blame

• Responsibility and punishment: justifications, excuses, and extenuating circumstances

• Epistemic limitations to the attribution of responsibility

• Factors hindering the attribution of responsibility: irrationality, cognitive biases, and self-deception

• Human enhancement and responsibility

• Responsibility for remedying injustices

• Individual responsibility for cumulative harm

• Responsibility in moral psychology

• Attributive responsibility and distributive justice

• Responsibility and equality of opportunity

Submission

Paper proposals (about 1,000 words) should be prepared for blind review and submitted electronically by 9 January 2017 to the following e-mail address: etmp2017@gmail.com. Decisions will be made and communicated by the end of February 2017.