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Breakups Podcast Episode
Breakups Podcast Episode

An episode of Surprising Ethics takes on two of the papers from the CFCP Philosophy of Breakups conference.

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Exile from the Moral Community
Exile from the Moral Community

I consider the idea of Strawson's objective attitude as a mental perspective we can take up towards others. Within an existing relationship, adopting an objective stance requires breaking one pattern of relating and establishing another. But once established, a pattern of objectivity can become one’s new default. We may save ourselves from the immediate strains of involvement only to discover that we have exiled someone from our moral community, and no longer know how to bring her back into the fold.

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How could we be blameworthy for drunk driving?
How could we be blameworthy for drunk driving?

Everyone recognizes that driving drunk is blameworthy. However, it is also very commonly thought that we need to appeal to some special “tracing” conditions on blame in order to explain why it is fitting to blame drunk drivers. If we don’t have direct control over ourselves when we’re drunk, though, how could we ever be blameworthy for drunk driving?

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Fall Workshop Visitors!
Fall Workshop Visitors!

This fall we have an exciting slate of CFCP Workshop visitors.

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Philosophy of Breakups was a success!
Philosophy of Breakups was a success!

Our Philosophy of Breakups conference was a success! Thanks to everyone who brought energy and enthusiasm to constructively discuss new issues about the end of relationships and what they teach us about other issues in philosophy.

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“Please Be Patient With Me…” - On Patience and Relationships
“Please Be Patient With Me…” - On Patience and Relationships
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Failures, Underdogs, and Comic Losers
Failures, Underdogs, and Comic Losers
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Discord in Solidarity & Solidarity on Discord
Discord in Solidarity & Solidarity on Discord

The question then becomes: can digital spaces produce solidarity’s shared moral understanding in the same way in-person cooperation can?

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Legitimate Interpersonal Injustice?
Legitimate Interpersonal Injustice?

Even if we both feel like a plan is unfair to us individually, we owe it to the relationship to stay the course if there’s room for us to reasonably disagree over whether our joint interests are being served.

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Responding to Wrongdoing
Responding to Wrongdoing

When we relinquish blame for our own practical reasons, we don’t have to do so by pretending as if the wrongdoer isn’t a fit recipient of our blame.

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Three’s Trumpany

Talk Conflict: Three's Trumpany
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Stick to the Script

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Talk Conflict: Stick to the Script
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Overestimating Violence

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