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rowan.mellor[at]northwestern.edu
Rowan Mellor

PUBLICATIONS

What Are We to Do? Making Sense of 'Joint Ought' Talk Philosophical Studies (forthcoming)

Co-authored with Margaret Shea

Joint Ought Philosophy and Public Affairs 52 (2024): 42-68.

Selected for a PEA Soup Discussion.

Faces of Vicarious Responsibility The Monist 104 (2021): 238-250.

IN THE PIPELINE

[A paper arguing that joint reasoning can be understood as a shared activity governed by the shared aim of mutually acquiring fitting attitudes]

[A paper arguing that joint reasoning is the mode of thought through which agents engage with collective obligations]

[A paper arguing that theories of team reasoning fail to account for normative reasons to cooperate]

 

[A paper which describes and motivates a distinctive form of forgiveness, which I call 'forgiveness as humility']

 

[A paper arguing that the value of personal autonomy consists in the importance of being guided by certain kinds of reasons for action]

RECENT TALKS

(see my CV for a full list)

Thinking Together

  • Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference 2024

  • Social Ontology 2024

Why Cooperate? Team Reasons, Participation, and Unwillingness

  • Laval Everything Agency Conference 2024

What Are We to Do? The Semantics and Ethics of the Joint Ought

  • Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop 2023

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 2023

Joint Ought

 

  • Berkeley Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and  Political Theory 2022

  • Humboldt Normativity Conference 2022

  • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 2022

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