Dana Kay Nelkin
Professor of Philosophy
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my website! I am a Professor in 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
-I am on sabbatical for the 2024-2025 year, and from the beginning of January until the end of June will be a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
-The 2025 edition of my "Moral Luck" article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now available, signficantly updated and revised.
-Click here for The Moral Judgments Project. Our most recent 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.
Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"Responsibility for Work and Its Effects" (with Aaron Chipp-Miller), in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Work, edited by Julian Jonker and Grant Rozeboom (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Responsibility and Reasons-Responsiveness" (with Manuel Vargas), in Freedom, Responsibility, and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer, edited by Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law, and Neal A. Tognazzini (Routledge, 2024).
"Informed Consent and Morally Responsible Agency" in Responsibility and Healthcare, edited by Ben Davies, Gabriel De Marco, Neil Levy & Julian Savulescu (Oxford University Press, 2024).
"Forgiveness and Letting Go: Ways of Changing the Normative Landscape" Revista de Estudios Social (2023).
“Beyond Killing One To Save Five: Sensitivity to Ratio and Probability in Moral Judgment" (with Arseny A. Ryazanov, Shawn Tinghao Wang, Craig R.M. McKenzie, and Samuel C. Rickless), Journal of Experimental Psychology (2023).
Trolley Problems Reimagined: Sensitivity to Risk, Ratio, and Comparisons” (with Samuel C. Rickless, Arseny A. Ryazanov, and Craig R.M. McKenzie), Issues in Experimental Moral Philosophy, edited by Fernando Aguiar, Hugo Viciana, and Antonio Gaitán (Routledge, 2023)
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
"TBA"
Workshop on Accountability and Its Practices in Law and Philosophy, LMU and Max Planck Institute, Munich
July 17-19, 2025
"TBA"
Workshop on Praise: Its Nature and Norms, Lund University
May 17-18, 2025
"Standing Blame and Criticism"
Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
"Desert and Degrees of Liability"
Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford
February 3, 2025
"Desert and Degrees of Liability"
12th Annual Conference for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, in Honor of Richard Arneson, University of Glasgow
December 11-12, 2024
"Standing, Blame, and Criticism"
Department of Philosophy, University of York
October 2, 2024
"Standing, Roles, and Kinds of Blame"
Workshop on Blame, Forgiveness and Apologies", University of Leuven
July 13, 2024