MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester
| Dates: | 25 February 2016 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Jodie Lamb |
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MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester
ABSTRACT: The standard formulation of responsibility sensitive justice is that people should pay the costs associated with actions for which they are responsible qua agent, or that come about as a consequence of their choices.
I will challenge the standard view with reference to luck egalitarianism, by claiming that many of the intuitions that ground this view are generalised from claims about inter-personal responsibility, and that this is not sufficient justification for institutional attributions of responsibility. Second, I will argue, that responsibility-sensitive conceptions of justice treat agent responsibility as sufficient grounds for attributive responsibility, and that this is false. In the paper I will attempt to provide clarity on the ways in which responsibility is utilized in responsibility-sensitive conceptions of justice, and will provide a taxonomic overview of the concept. I will then expand on three of the criticisms that Anderson and Scheffler level at luck egalitarianism that grounding justice in responsibility is harsh, moralistic, and lacks justificatory force.
Speaker
Jodie Lamb
Role: Speaker
Organisation: Univeristy of Manchester
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