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András Szigeti

Professor

My two areas of research are moral responsibility, especially collective responsibility, and the philosophy of emotions.

Responsibility, emotions and groups

Contemporary moral philosophy, aesthetics and the history of philosophy

I am a Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy. I have previously worked at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsö), the University of Lund, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and studied at the University of Oxford, the Central European University (Budapest), and the University of Basel. I specialize in action theory, emotion theory and the ethics and metaphysics of individual and collective responsibility. I teach moral philosophy, aesthetics, practical philosophy broadly construed, and the history of philosophy.

My two areas of research are moral responsibility, especially collective responsibility, and the philosophy of emotions. Within the first area, my work has mainly focused on the question whether groups can act and whether they can be held responsible as groups.

My recent work has taken up problems such as collective epistemic agency and group-level causation. My other research project studies the connection between emotions and values. Among others, I have written about emotional aspects of forgiveness and the relevance of emotion-based arguments to the possibility of moral dilemmas.

I am associate director of the Moral Responsibility Research Initiative at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science, Göteborg University.

To the Gothenburg Responsibility Project.

About my research

A selection of my publications

  • ‘The Heuristics Theory of Emotions and Moderate Rationalism.’ Philosophical Psychology (2024): 1-24.
  • ‘Using Quotas as a Remedy for Structural Injustice.’ Erkenntnis 88 (2023): 3631-3649.
  • ‘Emotions as Indeterminate Justifiers.’ Synthese 199 (2021): 11995-12017.
  • ‘Exploitation and Remedial Duties’ (with Erik Malmqvist). Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 (2019): 55-72.
  • ‘Exploitation and Joint Action’ (with Erik Malmqvist). Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2019): 280-300.
  • ‘The Group Knobe Effect: Evidence that People Intuitively Attribute Agency and Responsibility to Groups’ (with John Andrew Michael). Philosophical Explorations 22 (2018): 44-61.
  • ‘Sentimentalism and Moral Dilemmas,’ Dialectica 69 (2015): 1-22.
  • ‘Why Change the Subject? On Collective Epistemic Agency’ Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6 (2015): 843-864.
  • ‘Focusing Forgiveness as an Emotion,’ Journal of Value Inquiry 48 (2014): 217-234.
  • ‘Emotions and Heuristics,’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2013): 845-862.

Academic degree

PhD, Central European University, 2008

Research group and project

I am a member of a Research Group taht explores metaphysics, mereology, social ontology, philosophy of action, and moral philosophy. We examines the nature of collectives and social entities such as organizations, associations, and informal groups.

The Metaphysics and Collectivity Research Group

Hands

The Future of Intergenerational Solidarity beyond the Pandemic

FuturISE is a project that explores the understanding and meaning of intergenerational solidarity with a particular focus on crisis phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the climate crisis.

Publication lists in DiVA

2024

András Szigeti (2024) The heuristics theory of emotions and moderate rationalism Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 37, p. 861-884 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

György Barabas, András Szigeti (2023) Using Quotas as a Remedy for Structural Injustice Erkenntnis, Vol. 88, p. 3631-3649 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
András Szigeti (2023) Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: Preface to Issue 26/2, May 2023 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 26, p. 167-168 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research environment

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