The Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture

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• Wednesday 22 April 2015
• 5:30pm – 7:30pm, MC001
• Millennium City Building, University of Wolverhampton.

‘Moral luck, Morality, and the Will’, Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford), 

Imagine two negligent drivers, each fiddling with their radio controls while driving. By pure chance, one of them kills a pedestrian, while the other doesn’t. We tend the blame the killer much more; but has this driver really acted any more wrongly than the non-killer? And if so, what does this tell us about ethics, and should we try to change our attitudes? These are the problems of moral luck Professor Crisp will discuss in his talk, and he will argue that our sentiments have their source in ancient views of pollution we might now want to reject in favour of a morality based solely on what we will.

Roger Crisp is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is author of Mill on Utilitarianism (Routledge) and Reasons and the Good (OUP). He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics and an Associate Editor of the journal Ethics.He translated Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for Cambridge University Press. He chairs the Management Committee of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Free public lecture, everyone welcome.

For further details contact: Dr Meena Dhanda, tel: 01902 323 503 or email: m.dhanda@wlv.ac.uk