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The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies invites you to the annual Burman lectures in philosophy. This years invited lecturer is Carolina Sartorio, Rutgers. She will give three open lectures over three days on the theme of Responsibility for Consequences. 

Lecture 1: Basic and Non-Basic Responsibility: Against Unification

Abstract: Unlike the basic kind of responsibility, the non-basic kind (responsibility for consequences, or “out in the world” things) is a form of moral responsibility that is inherited from something else. Should we still expect these two forms of responsibility to be unified in some significant way? Is unification a virtue of a theory of responsibility? Some have thought so. I first argue against unification. I then draw consequences for debates about the relevance of alternative possibilities to moral responsibility.

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Lecture 2: Responsibility, Causation, and the Problem of Collective Harms
Wednesday 20 May at 13.15-15.00 PM in Lecture Hall HUM.D.220 – Hjortronlandet

Lecture 3: Grounding Responsibility for Consequences
Thursday 21 May at 13.15-15.00 PM in Lecture Hall HUM.D.220 – Hjortronlandet

All interested are welcome to these lectures.

The 2026 Burman Lectures are supported by a generous contribution from Vitterhetsakademin.

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