My creative colleague, Nathan Ballantyne, interviews me about writing. Click here to read.
Presented for the 8th Descartes Lectures,
Tilburg University
Ch 1: Accountability Responsibility
Ch 2: Compliance Responsibility
Ch 3: Taking Responsibility
Ch 4: Non-Idealized Social Practices: Response to Calhoun by Jules Holroyd
Ch 5: Being Predictable, Being Trustworthy by Heidi Maibom
Ch 6: Responsibility: Expected, Taken, Recognized by Gunnar Björnsson
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- 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
- Ch 1: Moral Failure
- Ch 2: An Apology for Moral Shame
- Ch 3: The Virtue of Civility
- Ch 4: Common Decency
- Ch 5: Standing for Something
- Ch 6: Kant and Compliance with Conventionalized Injustice
- Ch 7: Responsibility and Reproach
- 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: