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Tamler Sommers: The Ethical Significance of Victim Impact Statements
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Fromm Hall 110 - Maier Room
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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College of Arts and Sciences,Faculty & Staff,Public Events
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Torres, Brigid Rose
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| Department: | Theology and Religious Studies |
Tamler Sommers: "The Ethical Significance of
Victim Impact Statements"
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
5:00pm,
Fromm Hall, Maier Room
This
fall, the Davies Forum topic is Responsibility in Law and
Morality, which is being taught by Professor Manuel Vargas of the Department of Philosophy. The aim of
this forum is to undertake a sustained investigation into the nature of moral
and legal responsibility. In everyday life, we govern our conduct in light of
expectations that we can be called to account for what we do, and what we fail
to do, in our interactions with others. Philosophers have tended to think about
this set of practices in terms of moral responsibility. The legal
system has a similar but not identical structure: we can be held liable,
punished, and even executed for our choices—but only under particular
conditions. The Fall 2012 Davies Forum seminar's goal is to get students to
think deeply about legal institutions and social structures concerned with
responsibility in both the legal and moral senses.
Tamler Sommers is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He holds a joint appointment with the Honors College. He is also the co-director of Phronesis: A Program in Politics and Ethics,
an interdisciplinary minor at UH. He teaches primarily in ethics,
political philosophy, and the philosophy of law, specializing in issues
relating to free will, moral responsibility, punishment, and revenge. His
publications include Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, "Experimental Philosophy and Free Will" (Philosophy Compass), “The Two Faces of Revenge: Moral Responsibility and the Culture of Honor” (Biology and Philosophy), “More Work for Hard Incompatibilism” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), and “The Objective Attitude” (Philosophical Quarterly).
For
more information regarding this event, please contact the Davies Forum at (415)
422-6147.
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