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    What’s the Relationship Between the Theory and Practice of Moral Responsibility?
    Humana Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (42): 29-62. 2022.
    This article identifies a novel challenge to standard understandings of responsibility practices, animated by experimental studies of biases and heuristics. It goes on to argue that this challenge illustrates a general methodological challenge for theorizing about responsibility. That is, it is difficult for a theory to give us both guidance in real world contexts and an account of the metaphysical and normative foundations of responsibility without treating wide swaths of ordinary practice as d…Read more
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    Blame for me and Not for Thee: Status Sensitivity and Moral Responsibility
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (2): 265-282. 2022.
    In our day-to-day lives, we form responsibility judgements about one another – but we are imperfect beings, and our judgments can be mistaken. This paper suggests that we get things wrong not merely by chance, but predictably and systematically. In particular, these miscues are common when we are dealing with large gaps in social status and power. That is, when we form judgements about those who are much more or less socially powerful than ourselves, it is increasingly likely that “epistemic dis…Read more