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moral impossibility: Rethinking choice and conflict
This project aims to offer a theoretical framework for a significant yet under-explored set of phenomena which I call ‘moral impossibility’ (MI), and to use the theoretical understanding achieved to propose a new approach to intractable moral conflict. MI refers to what – for moral reasons – lies outside the range of possibilities available in one’s choices. While empirical and logical impossibilities are widely accepted, moral ones are far less obvious, yet they shape and delimit, often silently, all choices. These include the possibilities we never consider, those we cannot make sense of (e.g. because too morally abhorrent), and those we consider but cannot bring ourselves to carry out. Neglecting the role of MI can lead to crucial misrepresentations of situations of conflict in philosophy. Using recent case-studies, I propose to analyse intractable moral conflict in terms of moral possibilities that are not shared between the parties, in opposition to the dominant ‘disagreement’ model.
The objectives of the research are 1) to construct a conceptual framework of MI, 2) to conduct a normative analysis of its most controversial manifestations, and 3) to use the conceptual and normative frameworks to offer a new understanding of the causes, meaning, and possible resolution, of intractable moral conflict. Each objective corresponds to a work package with a distinct methodology and contributing to a different branch of ethics: moral theory/moral psychology, normative ethics, and applied ethics. READ MORE
The objectives of the research are 1) to construct a conceptual framework of MI, 2) to conduct a normative analysis of its most controversial manifestations, and 3) to use the conceptual and normative frameworks to offer a new understanding of the causes, meaning, and possible resolution, of intractable moral conflict. Each objective corresponds to a work package with a distinct methodology and contributing to a different branch of ethics: moral theory/moral psychology, normative ethics, and applied ethics. READ MORE
Project duration: January 2022 - December 2023
The MSCA researcher
Silvia Caprioglio panizza
Hi, I'm Silvia and I'm interested in a number of things, most of them closely connected to ethics, others more loosely. I work in: meta-ethics, moral psychology, applied ethics (animal and environmental); feminism, particularly eco-feminism; Simone Weil; Iris Murdoch; philosophy of religion, mysticism, and Buddhist philosophy; philosophy of literature and translation.
Before joining the Centre for Ethics, I was Teaching Fellow in Ethics at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life at University College Dublin, and a fellow of the wonderful project PEriTiA. Before that, I was Lecturer in Ethics at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. During and just after my PhD I taught various philosophy modules in Cambridge and Rome. Joining research and personal concerns, I have been leading the Vegan Studies Network since 2018.
In 2021 I had the good fortune of winning the MSCA Individual Fellowship, which is allowing me to spend two years investigating an area of morality I find extremely fascinating and important: moral impossibility.
During these two years I hope to set up new collaborations, both with other philosophers but also with researchers in other disciplines in the Social Sciences. If you work on related themes and would like to talk about moral impossiblity, contact me here!
You can find my CV and my other activities in The Researcher page
Before joining the Centre for Ethics, I was Teaching Fellow in Ethics at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life at University College Dublin, and a fellow of the wonderful project PEriTiA. Before that, I was Lecturer in Ethics at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. During and just after my PhD I taught various philosophy modules in Cambridge and Rome. Joining research and personal concerns, I have been leading the Vegan Studies Network since 2018.
In 2021 I had the good fortune of winning the MSCA Individual Fellowship, which is allowing me to spend two years investigating an area of morality I find extremely fascinating and important: moral impossibility.
During these two years I hope to set up new collaborations, both with other philosophers but also with researchers in other disciplines in the Social Sciences. If you work on related themes and would like to talk about moral impossiblity, contact me here!
You can find my CV and my other activities in The Researcher page
The host institution
The project is based at the Centre for Ethics, at the University of Pardubice, in the Czech Republic. The Centre was funded in 2017 with a major grant from the European Union, and it gathers researchers from across the world to work on ethical questions, such as: climate change, the ethical role of emotions, populism, fame, and power, love, attention, climate grief, conceptual change, natality, human relationships with non-human animals, etc.
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Contact: silvia.capriogliopanizza@upce.cz
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