Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: Dimensions of Responsibility

The past couple of decades witnessed an explosion of responsibility studies, with a number of new topics and areas of research emerging along with intensified interest toward existing theories and approaches. Undoubtedly, this focus on responsibility has led to the advancement of much-needed resources for addressing, inter alia, new existential threats, including climate change and unprecedented technological developments in such areas as artificial intelligence.

At the same time, however, the sheer volume and increasing complexity of the work conducted on different aspects of responsibility, across a variety of disciplines, resulted in a less welcome trend toward fragmentation of the debate into separate conversations.

Such conversations on the many dimensions of responsibility have featured prominently across a number of debates in practical philosophy, including legal, political, moral philoso�phy, and applied ethics. In order to make sense of the different strands of research they have originated, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice has dedicated its 20th Anniversary Conference to exploring them. The Conference brought together scholars from different philosophical tradi�tions to explore the dimensions along which the many issues concerning the idea of individual and collective responsibility play out and discuss its normative implications for the establish�ment of individual and collective rights and duties.