Making excuses and the blame game

Files

PHIL_Pamela_Hieronymi_Lansdowne_Oct2023.mp4 (798.45 MB)

Date

2023-12-15

Authors

Hieronymi, Pamela

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Abstract

Public life has recently seen some spectacular displays of defensiveness and seemingly unending iterations of the blame game. To know what to make of these phenomena, we need a better account of their inner workings. In this talk, moral philosopher Professor Pamela Hieronymi (known to a wider audience through her work as ethics consultant on the NBC show “The Good Place”) uses the tools of philosophical analysis to offer such an account.

Description

Keywords

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1828/15710

Collections

Lansdowne Lectures
 
University of Victoria Libraries

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.