Susan Wolf (Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); (12/8/16)
 

Eleventh Annual Amherst Lecture in Philosophy (ALP)

“Aesthetic Responsibility”

Abstract:

Philosophers often suggest that the fact that we are morally responsible is an important mark of our distinctive humanity.  But people are responsible for much more than the moral qualities of their actions.  Artists, for example, are typically aesthetically responsible for the qualities of their artistic creations. The talk will discuss similarities and differences between aesthetic and moral responsibility and speculate on what a consideration of aesthetic responsibility tells us about both responsibility and humanity.