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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?

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.

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.

Is Paternalism Compatible with Love?
Is Paternalism Compatible with Love?

In light of these observations, I want to suggest that when non-interference with the aims of our beloved would result in significant harm to them, paternalism can be morally permissible in the context of a loving relationship.

Children and Blame
Children and Blame

Whether or not I can fittingly feel the reactive attitudes towards someone must depend on the kind on the relations that I bear to them. It cannot depend solely on certain features of the person we have the attitude towards (like whether or not they are morally responsible).

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Spring Workshops Announced!
Spring Workshops Announced!

The spring CFCP workshop speakers have been announced! Join us to discuss work in progress with Hajar Yazdiha, Meena Krishnamurthy, Barrett Emerick, and Olivia Bailey.

Liberalization Requires Belief System Transformation
Liberalization Requires Belief System Transformation

Liberalism offers to all citizens, each with their favorite belief system, a social contract they can endorse while remaining committed to their systems, which often constitute their social identities.

Imprudence and Victim-Blaming
Imprudence and Victim-Blaming

We can urge others to not act in some way that is contingently imprudent while at the same time making them aware of the injustice in having to not act in this way. Second, and more controversially, we should blame others, even if to a much lesser degree than perpetrators of harm, in the rare occasions when they do act imprudently and raise the chances that others harm them.

CFCP Summer Newsletter
CFCP Summer Newsletter

 

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Our goal is to find the philosophy at the center of interpersonal conflict. Founded in December 2019, we are just getting started.

 
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CFCP Mission Video

Introduction to the mission of the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project

Three’s Trumpany

A look at what happens when Donald Trump comes between us.
 
 

Stick to the Script

Philosopher Jonathan Quong's work offers a surprising but fruitful fairness-based explanation of why we must sometimes tolerate the enforcement of unjust law...

Video credit: David Clark

Overestimating Violence

Taking Action Against Trolls

 
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