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Setting Things Right<\/h1>\n

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Gunnar Bjo\u0308rnsson (Stockholm University); Romy Eskens (Utrecht University)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Culpable wrongdoing gives rise to obligations, particularly on part of perpetrators, to set things right. Moreover, numerous moral practices can be seen as having this aim:<\/p>\n

Perpetrators<\/em> try to set things right by apologizing to their victims, providing assurance that they won\u2019t repeat their offense, mending what has been broken and minimizing or compensating for whatever distress or material harm they caused. Many think that the perpetrator\u2019s deserved suffering of guilt or other hardships go into setting things right, and many perpetrators feel that self- punishment is part of what is required.<\/p>\n

Victims<\/em> can prompt such actions on part of perpetrators; on some accounts, this is the core function of moral blame, or of moral indignation and resentment. They can also protest the wrongdoing, and elicit support from third parties and assurance that such wrongdoing is not accepted in the community. In addition, victims might feel a need to \u201cget even\u201d with the perpetrator, and to inflict costs deterring from future transgressions.<\/p>\n

Like victims, third parties<\/em> can try to prompt perpetrator action, assure victims\u2014and perpetrators\u2014that the wrongdoing isn\u2019t accepted, help compensate victims for harms inflicted by perpetrators and inflict costs on perpetrators, to deter further wrongdoing, or because such costs seem deserved.<\/p>\n

To understand these practices, we need to understand what it is that has been set wrong by culpable wrongdoing, such that apologizing, assuring victims, compensating, or inflicting costs in getting even or deterring from future transgressions can set things right. The literature contains a variety of answers, many of which fall into one of two broad kinds. The first kind understands culpable wrongdoing as creating a moral debt that needs to be repaid. Accordingly, setting things right involves restitution, retribution, or compensation. The second kind understands it as causing damage to relationships, damage that needs to be repaired. Setting things right then involves the wrongdoer\u2019s new commitment to relationship norms, assurance of such commitment, alignment of normative expectations, and reconciliation of the parties by restoration of moral relationship.<\/p>\n

Some recent work on these issues has enriched our understanding of these theoretical approaches and their relationships (see e.g. Christopher Bennett\u2019s (2008) The Apology Ritual and Linda Radzick\u2019s (2009) Making Amends and (2020) The Ethics of Social Punishment), and much work has been done on related phenomena like blame, apology, forgiveness, and retributive desert. But we think that many questions remain, about the connection between ideas of moral debt and desert and those of relationship restoration, and about particular ways of setting things right, by particular actors.<\/p>\n

We are inviting contributions concerning what it is that culpable wrongdoing sets wrong and what can thus be set right, as well as contributions concerning problems and prospects for modes of setting things right. Contributions can be critical as well as constructive, and focus can be on private morality, on relationships between states or groups, as well as on states\u2019 capacities to set things right through punishment or other procedures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wednesday 4th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:00-12:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Registration<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12:30-13:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:30-14:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Welcome Speech<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:00-16:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Samuel Reis-Dennis <\/em>(Rice): Satisfaction<\/p>\n

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Kirstine La Cour <\/em>(UCL): Repair as the Pursuit of Mutual Understanding<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:00-16:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:30-17:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Julia Driver <\/em>(UT Austin\/St Andrews): Schadenfreude and Moral Bookkeeping<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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17:45-19:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Wine Reception<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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19:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Conference Dinner<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thursday 5th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9:30-11:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Gunnar Bj\u00f6rnsson <\/em>(Stockholm) & Romy Eskens <\/em>(Utrecht): Balancing Acts<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Watkins <\/em>(Queens Belfast): Doing and Undoing Harm<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:30-12:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12:00-13:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Christopher Bennett <\/em>(Sheffield): Apologies for Large-Scale Wrongdoing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:00-14:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:00-16:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Daniel Ranweiler <\/em>(UCLA): A Moral Metaphysics of Redemption<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Matheson <\/em>(Bern): Blame and Redemption<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:00-16:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16:30-17:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Linda Radzik <\/em>(Texas A&M): Reputational Wrongs and Moral Community<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Friday 6th<\/sup> September<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9:30-11:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Larisa Svirsky <\/em>(Toronto): Forgiving for One\u2019s Own Sake<\/p>\n

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Daniel Telech <\/em>(Lund): Guilt and Gratitude: Without Fault, Without Credit<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11:30-12:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tea and Coffee Break<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12:00-13:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Gunnar Bj\u00f6rnsson <\/em>(Stockholm) & Romy Eskens <\/em>(Utrecht): The Need for Balance<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:00-14:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lunch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:00-16:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Bill Wringe <\/em>(Bilkent): Group Apology: Against the Agency Thesis<\/p>\n

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Giulio Fornaroli <\/em>(Jagiellonian): Corrective Duties, Damage, and the Liberal State<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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