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 in January will begin a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.
-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.
Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"Responsibility and Reasons-Responsiveness" (with Manuel Vargas), Freedom, Responsibility, and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer, edited by Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law, and Neal A. Tognazzini (Routledge, 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)
“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).
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
"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
"Responsibility For Work and Its Effects" (with Aaron Chipp-Miller)
Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness at Work, St. Mary's College
April 12, 2024
"Threshold Deontology and the Distribution of Risk: Asking the Right Questions"
International Colloquium on Philosophy of Neuroscience, Rio de Janeiro (via zoom)
April 3, 2024
"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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