Writing

My creative colleague, Nathan Ballantyne, interviews me about writing. Click here to read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presented for the 8th Descartes Lectures,
Tilburg University Accountability Responsibility

1. Accountability Responsibility
2. Compliance Responsibility
3. Taking Responsibility

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Oxford University Press, Feb. 2018

Ch 1: Introduction: Having a Future, Leading a Life, and Spending Time
Ch 2: Geographies of Meaningful Living
Ch 3: Taking an Interest in One’s Future
Ch 4: Motivating Hope
Ch 5: What Good is Commitment?
Ch 6: Living with Boredom
Ch 7: On Being Content with Imperfection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford University Press, 2015 

Introduction

CRITICAL MORALITY AND SOCIAL NORMS
Ch 1: An Apology for Moral Shame
Ch 2: The Virtue of Civility

REACHING, RELYING ON, AND CONTESTING SOCIAL CONSENSUS ON MORAL NORMS
Ch 3: The Virtue of Civility
Ch 4: Common Decency
Ch 5: Standing for Something

CONVENTIONALIZED WRONGDOING
Ch 6: Kant and Compliance with Conventionalized Injustice
Ch. 7: Responsibility and Reproach

TELLING MORAL STORIES FOR OTHERS
Ch. 8: Emotional Work
Ch. 9: Changing One’s Heart

 

▪ “Theorizing about Meaning in Life,”  Journal of Philosophy of Life 12, no. 1 (November 2022): 1-20.
▪ “On Having the Status ‘Responsible Person,” committed to Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility
▪ “Reflections on Deliberative Freedom, Subordination, and Prohibited Grounds in Faces of Inequality,” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 25, no. 1 (2022): 70-83.
▪ “Social Connections, Social Contributions, and Why They Matter: Comments on Being Sure of Each Other,” Criminal Law and Philosophy, published online June 25, 2022.

▪ “Appreciating Responsible Persons,” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 11, ed. Mark Timmons (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
▪ “A Question of Obligation” contribution to symposium on Buss Musings, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 37, no. 1 (2020): 44-50.
▪ “Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 190, part 3 (2019): 1-21.

 

Listen to a webinar for the English Speaking Union on civility: