Högre seminariet i filosofi bjuder in till ett seminarium med August Olsen, Lunds universitet. Seminariet ges på engelska och har den engelska titeln "Apologies and Responsibility".
Abstract (på engelska)
Philosophers widely agree that apologising requires responsibility: one can only intelligibly apologise for what one is, in some way, responsible for. Nonetheless, the precise details of how this requirement should be understood remain underexamined. This paper aims to remedy this by proposing the following understanding of the Responsibility-Requirement: An apology for φ-ing implicates responsibility for φ-ing – an implicature which is non-cancellable – and the apology is felicitous only if the apologiser is perceived as responsible for φ-ing. This raises the question of what kind of responsibility is required. We reject the views that apologising requires culpable responsibility or agential responsibility by showing that merely causally responsible agents can sometimes felicitously apologise. We propose that apologisers bearing culpable, agential, and/or causal responsibility can meet the requirement. We then argue that the Responsibility-Requirement holds for all individual apologies, including apologies we offer for other people’s misdeeds. Finally, we discuss what the Responsibility-Requirement entails for the relationship between apologies and forgiveness, remorse, moral wrongdoing, and repeating what one is apologising for.
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