CLA Hale Lecture Series
The Hale Lecture SeriesPresentsJake WojtowiczKing's College London Wednesday, September 25th3-4:15 PM Max Lowenthal HallRoom 3215 Agent-Regret in Our LivesSometimes, through no fault of our own, we do something awful. For instance, while she is driving safely and attentively, a bike veers into a driver's path or a child darts out from behind a car and suddenly the driver has killed someone. Bernard Williams claimed that the appropriate emotional reaction to having done such a thing was not mere regret (because the driver regrets what she has done), nor guilt (because she wasn't at fault), but agent-regret. I put forward a novel account of agent-regret. I suggest that agent-regret can arise even when we are not at all concerned with the harm we have caused--what matters is our causing of it. To justify this, I draw attention to various reasons we might have for caring about what we have done. I then move on to show that a proper understanding of agent-regret helps us to better understand a variety of real-life and fictional cases where an agent faultlessly does something awful. Working from these cases, I consider why such actions matter by exploring the relation between what we do and who we are. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLICInterpreters provided upon request & subject to availability.Please make your request TODAY by going to Access.rit.edu.
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