News

2023 - August 31

Publication of Risk and Responsibility in Context, co-edited by Adriana Placani and Stearns Broadhead, consisting of 13 chapters from philosophers examining various aspects of risk and responsibility. It is published by Routledge as part of its Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory series and  open access - published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FwF): PUB 1003-P. Available through OSF public repository here and through the publisher, Routledge, here

2023 - April 28

Risk and Responsibility online talk by Sven Nyholm (Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich), titled "AI and the Risk of Undermining Human Responsibility for Good and Bad Outcomes”

2022 - October

Adriana Placani & Stearns Broadhead

Publication of article "Moral Dimensions of Offsetting Luxury Emissions" in Ethics, Policy & Environment.

Open access funding provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FwF): P-31527.

2021 - September

Stearns Broadhead & Adriana Placani

Publication of article "The Morality of Carbon Offsets for Luxury Emissions in World Futures.

Open access funding provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FwF): P-31527.

2021 - February 18 & 19

Risk and Responsibility Workshop

Bringing together philosophers working on the topics of risk and responsibility, this online workshop offers an opportunity to present and discuss recent scholarship on one of the project's central topics

2021 - February 18

Adriana Placani & Stearns Broadhead

Publication of article "Risk and Blameworthiness by Degree" in The Journal of Value Inquiry.

Open access funding provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FwF): P-31527.

2020 - September

Stearns Broadhead & Adriana Placani

Presentation of co-authored paper "What We Owe Ourselves: On Climate Change, Duty and Responsibility"

MANCEPT Political Theory Conference "Individual Responsibility and Climate Change"

2020 - January

Stearns Broadhead & Adriana Placani

First article version of "The Morality of Carbon Offsetting" prepared

2019 - November

Adriana Placani & Stearns Broadhead

First article version of "What We Owe Ourselves: On Climate Change, Duty and Responsibility" prepared

2019 - September

Adriana Placani

Presentation of updated co-authored project paper (with Stearns Broadhead) "Risk and Blameworthiness by Degree"

2nd POLEMO Symposium. Central European University

2019 - August

Adriana Placani

Presentation of co-authored paper (with Stearns Broadhead) "What We Owe Ourselves: On Climate Change, Duty and Responsibility"

42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium "Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events

2019 - February

Adriana Placani & Stearns Broadhead

First article version of "Risk and Blameworthiness by Degree" prepared

2019 - January

Open access, open source, and freely available project repository (for project documents, etc.) via Open Science Framwork made fully public. Available here

2018 - December

Adriana Placani

Presentation of co-authored paper (with Stearns Broadhead) "Risk and Blameworthiness by Degree"

Lisbon Conference on Values and Uncertainty LVU18 (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

2018 - November 

--Project launch

--Twitter account launch @Resp4Risks

--Project website launch