Benjamin Matheson

BENJAMIN MATHESON

Assistant Professor, University of Bern
PI of SERI-Funded ERC Starting Grant on "Collective Guilt and Shame"

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  • CoGS
    • Workshop #1 - Responsibility and the Reactive Attitudes Over Time
    • Workshop #2 - Epistemic Advantage, Revisited
    • Workshop #3 - Collective Emotions, Societal Movements, and Social Groups
    • Workshop #4 - The Ethics of Fandom
Publications
Monographs
  • 2021. Honouring and Admiring the Immoral: An Ethical Guide (with Alfred Archer) Routledge
                    Reviews: Philosophical Quarterly

Edited Collections
  • Under contract. The Philosophy of Apology (co-edited with Alex Edlich). OUP.
  • 2017. Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife (co-edited with Yujin Nagasawa). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

  Engaged Reviews
2025. Anxiety, Guilt, and Pride in Parenthood: A Review of The Moral Psychology of Guilt, The Moral Psychology of Pride, and The Moral Psychology of Anxiety, Passion, 86: 85-95

Articles
  • Forthcoming. ‘Consigning Injustices to History with Political Apologies’ (with Alfred Archer) Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • 2026. ‘Shame in Response to Institutional Failures’ (with Alfred Archer) Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • 2025. ‘It was a Different Time: Judging Historical Figures by Today’s Standards’ (with Alfred Archer) Journal of Applied Philosophy,
  • 2025. ‘Blameworthiness is Terminable” Philosophical Quarterly, 
  • 2025. ‘Fame and Redemption: On the Moral Dangers of Celebrity Apologies’ Journal of Social Philosophy
  • 2023. ‘Self-Manipulation and Moral Responsibility’ Teroema,
  • 2022. ‘The Out of Character Objection to the Character Condition on Moral Responsibility’ (with Robert Hartman) Thought
  • 2022. ‘Commemoration and Emotional Imperialism’ (with Alfred Archer) Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • 2021. ‘The Case Against Non-Moral Blame’ (with Per Milam) Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Vol 11 (edited by Mark Timmons). Oxford University Press.
  • 2020. ‘Admiration Over Time’ (with Alfred Archer). Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
  • 2020. ‘Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power’ (with Alfred Archer, Amanda Cawston, Machteld Gueskens). Perspectives on Politics
  • 2019. ‘Manipulators and Moral Standing’, Philosophia
  • 2019. ‘When Artists Fall: Honoring and Admiring the Immoral’ (with Alfred Archer) Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • 2019. ‘Admiration and Education: What Should We Do with Immoral Intellectuals?” (with Alfred Archer) Ethical Perspectives
  • 2019. ‘Shame and the Sports Fan’ (with Alfred Archer), Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
  • 2019. ‘Towards a Structural Ownership Condition on Moral Responsibility’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  • 2018. ‘Is Blameworthiness Forever?’ (with Andrew Khoury) Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • 2018. ‘Tracing and Heavenly Freedom’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
  • 2018. ‘The Threat from Manipulation Argument’ American Philosophical Quarterly
  • 2017. ‘Alternative Possibilities, Volitional Necessities, and Character Setting’, Disputatio
  • 2017. ‘More Than a Feeling: The Communicative Function of Regret’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies
  • 2017. ‘Practical Identity’ in Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife (eds. Matheson, B. & Nagasawa, Y.). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2016. ‘In Defence of the Four-Case Argument’, Philosophical Studies
  • 2014. ‘Escaping Heaven’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
  • 2014. ‘Compatibilism and Personal Identity’, Philosophical Studies    
 
Journal Symposia
  • 2022. Symposium on The Ethics of Indirect Intervention (co-edited with Helen Frowe). Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • 2022. Symposium on Honour and Admiration after War and Conflict (co-edited with Alfred Archer) Journal of Applied Philosophy
 
Book Reviews
  • 2019. Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale: War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame. Oxford University Press. Journal of Applied Philosophy
  • 2017. Kevin Timpe: Free Will in Philosophical Theology. Bloomsbury 2014. European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion
  • 2012. Tim Mawson. Free Will: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum, 2011. European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion
 
Conference Proceedings
  • 2012. “Manipulation, Moral Responsibility, and Machines”, The Machines Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility, AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012. Eds: David J. Gunkel, Joanna J. Bryson, and Steve Torrance
 
  Public Philosophy
  • 2025. “Anger is not a guide to truth or morality” Institute of Art and Ideas
  • 2025. “Mog and Moral Responsibility” Philosophical Parenting
  • 2025. “Incy Wincy Spider and the Meaning of Life” Philosophical Parenting
  • 2025. “What I Learned From: Mog The Forgetful Cat” Philosophical Parenting
  • 2025. “Complicity and Collective Blame” The CoGS Project Substack
  • 2025. “What is Collective Guilt? And is it rational?” The CoGS Project Substack
  • 2025. “Is Guilt a Moral Emotion?” The CoGS Project Substack
  • 2024. “Blameworthiness is Terminable” New Work in Philosophy
  • 2021. “Emotional Imperialism in Public Discourse” (with Alfred Archer) Open for Debate.
  • 2020. “A Symposium on The Ethics of Indirect Intervention” (with Helen Frowe). Justice Everywhere.
  • 2019. “Remembrance and Poppy Enforcement” (with Alfred Archer) The Ethical War Blog.
    • Reposted at: https://www.publicethics.org/post/remembrance-and-poppy-enforcement
  • 2019. “Should We Mute Michael Jackson?” (with Alfred Archer) Prindle Post
  • 2019. “Should Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize Be Revoked?” Bij Nader Inzien
    • Reposted at: https://phine.eu/should-aung-san-suu-kyis-nobel-peace-prize-be-revoked/
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  • Home
  • CoGS
    • Workshop #1 - Responsibility and the Reactive Attitudes Over Time
    • Workshop #2 - Epistemic Advantage, Revisited
    • Workshop #3 - Collective Emotions, Societal Movements, and Social Groups
    • Workshop #4 - The Ethics of Fandom