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30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity
30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity
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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Dana Kay Nelkin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Her areas of research include moral psychology, ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2011), and a number of articles on a variety of topics, including self-deception, friendship, the lottery paradox, psychopathy, forgiveness, moral luck, and praise and blame. She is also a co-editor of the The Ethics and Law of Omissions, The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, and Forgiveness: New Essays. Her work in moral psychology includes participation in an interdisciplinary research collaboration of philosophers and psychologists, The Moral Judgements Project, which brings together normative and descriptive enquiries about the use of moral principles such as the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing and the Doctrine of Double Effect. Other roles include membership of the advisory board of the UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics, service as the North American representative to the Society of Applied Philosophy, and on the Academic Advisory Board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Nelkin's talk - 'Equal Opportunity' - at the Aristotelian Society on 30 March 2020. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.
This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Nelkin's talk - 'Equal Opportunity' - at the Aristotelian Society on 30 March 2020. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.
Released:
Apr 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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