Dana Kay Nelkin
Professor of Philosophy
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my website! I am a Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California, San Diego. Here you can find links to papers and abstracts, course syllabi, my CV, and more.
News
-Click here for The Moral Judgments Project. Our new article, "Beyond Killing One to Save Five: Sensitivity to Ratio and Probability in Moral Judgement", is now available in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
-The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, co-edited with Derk Pereboom, is available from Oxford University Press!
Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"Forgiveness and Letting Go: Ways of Changing the Normative Landscape" Revista de Estudios Social (2023).
“Non-Consequentialist Principles Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Framework” (with Sam Rickless), The Trolley Problem: Classic Philosophical Arguments,edited by Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge University Pres, 2023).
"Relationships and Responsibility" The Oxford Handbook on Moral Repsonsibility, edited by Dana Kay Nelkin and Derk Pereboom (Oxford University Press, 2022).
"How Much to Blame?: An Asymmetry Between the Norms of Self-Blame and Other-Blame" Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility, edited by Andreas Brekke Carlsson (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
"Equal Opportunity: A Unifying Framework for Moral, Aesthetic, and Epistemic Responsibility" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2020).
"What Should the Voting Age Be?" The Journal of Practical Ethics (2020).
"Rational Belief and Statistical Evidence: Blame, Bias, and the Law", The Lottery Paradox, edited by Igor Douven (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
"Degrees of Liability"
Degrees in Epistemology and Beyond Workshop, University of Zürich
November 14, 2022
Conference in Honor of Richard Arneson, UC San Diego
May 13, 2023
"Moral Responsibility: Concepts, Conceptions, and Practice"
The Social Basis of Agency Workshop
Universidad de los Andes, February 17-18, 2023
"Changing the Normative Landscape: Forgiveness and Letting Go"
Memory and Forgiveness Workshop, Universidad Tecnológica Bolivar-Sede Manga, Cartagena, Colombia
September 23, 2022
Workshop on Trust and Forgiveness, University of California, Irvine
September 16, 2022
Lecture Series in Practical Agency Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law,
King’s College London February 8, 2023
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