All Outputs (9)

Moral status of believing in races (2024)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K. (2024). Moral status of believing in races. Inquiry, 67(8), 2243-2249. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2024.2365889

To establish the claim that racism is an ideology that consists of having morally impermissible attitudes towards people in virtue of their racialised identities, Appiah claims that a (false) belief in race is not automatically morally wrong. This pa... Read More about Moral status of believing in races.

Shame and the Ethical in Williams (2022)
Book Chapter
Webster, A. K., & Bero, S. (2022). Shame and the Ethical in Williams. In A. Szigeti, & M. Talbert (Eds.), Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams (62-86). Oxford University Press

Bernard Williams’ Shame and Necessity (1993) was an influential early contribution to what has become a broader movement to rehabilitate shame as a moral emotion. But there is a tension in Williams’ discussion that presents an under-appreciated diffi... Read More about Shame and the Ethical in Williams.

Making Sense of Shame in Response to Racism (2022)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K. (2022). Making Sense of Shame in Response to Racism. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51(7), 535 - 550. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.41

Some people of colour feel shame in response to racist incidents. This phenomenon seems puzzling since, plausibly, they have nothing to feel shame about. This puzzle arises because we assume that targets of racism feel shame about their race. However... Read More about Making Sense of Shame in Response to Racism.

Proof Paradoxes, Agency, and Stereotyping (2021)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K. (2021). Proof Paradoxes, Agency, and Stereotyping. Philosophical Issues, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12191

Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities (2021)
Book Chapter
Webster, A. K. (2021). Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities. In D. Shoemaker (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 7 (104-129). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844644.003.0006

This chapter proposes a distinctive kind of agency that can vindicate the agency of members of marginalized groups while accommodating the autonomy-undermining influences of oppression. Socially embedded agency—the locus of which is in the exercise o... Read More about Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities.

How to theorise about the criminal law: thoughts on methodology prompted by Alex Sarch’s Criminally Ignorant (2021)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K. (2021). How to theorise about the criminal law: thoughts on methodology prompted by Alex Sarch’s Criminally Ignorant. Jurisprudence, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2021.1936789

Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning (2020)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K., & Jenkins, K. (2021). Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99(4), 730-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1799048

One challenge in providing an adequate definition of physical disability is that of unifying the heterogeneous bodily conditions that count as disabilities. We examine recent proposals by Elizabeth Barnes [2016], and Dana Howard and Sean Aas [2018],... Read More about Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning.

Burdens of Proof and the Case for Unevenness (2012)
Journal Article
Aijaz, I., McKeown-Green, J., & Webster, A. (2013). Burdens of Proof and the Case for Unevenness. Argumentation, 27(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-012-9285-4

Conjuring Ethics from Words (2012)
Journal Article
McKeown-Green, J., Pettigrove, G., & Webster, A. (2012). Conjuring Ethics from Words. Noûs, 49(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12004