About this Event
The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law is delighted to invite Prof. Julia Markovitz (Cornell) to deliver the next lecture of the 2022/23 Series in Practical Agency.
Title:
Moral Worth and the (Partial) Relativism of Praise and Blame
Abstract:
This talk will set out and explore some of the implications of a multi-faceted account of the moral praise- and blameworthiness of actions. I will argue that, while there are elements of moral assessment that are absolute, there is also an element of moral assessment that is relative - indeed, (in a sense) both agent’s-group and appraiser’s-group relative. I will show how this account can help us make sense of some otherwise puzzling features of our practice of moral judgment, including our intuition that some actions are supererogatory, and our intuition that normative ignorance can sometimes mitigate culpability.
Speaker Bio:
Julia Markovits is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She joined the Cornell faculty in 2014, after spending five years on the philosophy faculty at MIT. Before that, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She completed her graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Her first book, Moral Reason, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. It defends the view that what we have reason to do depends on what we care about, but we all nonetheless have reason to be moral. She is currently working on a book about praise and blame.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00