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
-From mid-January to mid-February 2026, I'll be a Visiting Fellow at the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre of Politics, Philosophy and Law in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London.
-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
"Desert and Degrees of Liability" in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (in press).
"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, 2026)."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).
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
"Normative Powers and Responsibility Practices"
KJuris Lecture, Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Februar 11, 2026
"Obligation, Responsibility, and Ability"
Center for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs, University of Warwick
February 10, 2026
"Normative Powers and Responsibility Practices"
Workshop on Freedom and Responsibility, University of Arizona
November 7-8, 2025
"Blame, Criticism, and Standing"
Colloquium in Practical Philosophy and Ethics, LMU, Munich
July 22, 2025
"Normative Powers and Responsibility Practices"
Workshop on Accountability and Its Practices in Law and Philosophy, LMU and Max Planck Institute, Munich
July 17-19, 2025