Moral Praise and Moral Performance
Much of my current work is focused on gaining a better understanding of the ethics of praise. One of the guiding targets of this work is the curious but historically influential claim that apt moral praise is a symptom of moral imperfection and would not play a significant part in a truly excellent life. I am currently in the process of editing an anthology of original essays on this and related topics, entitled The Morality of Praise, and due to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Some of the other work I have done in this area has been focused on the idea of circumstantial luck and vicarious responsibility, on which topic I co-edited a special issue of The Monist in 2021. I have also been working on a series of papers in which I pursue the issue of circumstantial luck in the context of moral appraisals of individual moral agency. One of these papers, entitled 'Moral Luck and Moral Performance', was published in The European Journal of Philosophy in 2020. A draft of this paper can be downloaded below.
Much of my current work is focused on gaining a better understanding of the ethics of praise. One of the guiding targets of this work is the curious but historically influential claim that apt moral praise is a symptom of moral imperfection and would not play a significant part in a truly excellent life. I am currently in the process of editing an anthology of original essays on this and related topics, entitled The Morality of Praise, and due to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Some of the other work I have done in this area has been focused on the idea of circumstantial luck and vicarious responsibility, on which topic I co-edited a special issue of The Monist in 2021. I have also been working on a series of papers in which I pursue the issue of circumstantial luck in the context of moral appraisals of individual moral agency. One of these papers, entitled 'Moral Luck and Moral Performance', was published in The European Journal of Philosophy in 2020. A draft of this paper can be downloaded below.
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