Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions

Twelve of the world's leading philosophers tackle the tough questions about forgiveness, shedding light on what forgiveness is, when it is morally good, and how it connects to larger issues of free will, religion, institutional wrongdoing, apology, moral responsibility, and our emotions.

Brandon Warmke (Ph.D. Arizona) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He works in ethics, social philosophy, moral psychology, and political philosophy. He is the author of several philosophical and empirical papers on public discourse and moral responsibility, and over a dozen papers on forgiveness. With Justin Tosi, he is the author of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (2020, OUP). His work has been featured in The Atlantic, HuffPost, Scientific American, The Guardian, Slate, The New York Times Magazine, and Vox.
Dana Kay Nelkin (Ph.D. UCLA) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Her areas of research include moral psychology, ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Oxford University Press), and a number of articles on a variety of
topics, including self-deception, friendship, the lottery paradox, moral luck, psychopathy, forgiveness, and praise and blame. She is also a co-editor of the The Ethics and Law of Omissions and The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility. Her work in moral psychology includes participation in an interdisciplinary research collaboration of philosophers and psychologists, The Moral Judgements Project, which brings together normative and descriptive enquiries about the use of moral principles such as the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing and the Doctrine of Double Effect.
Michael McKenna (Ph.D. Virginia) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His areas of research are mostly devoted to free will and moral responsibility, but also include issues in moral psychology, action theory, ethics, and metaphysics. He is the author of Conversation and Responsibility (Oxford University Press), the co-author with Derk Pereboom of Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction
(Routledge Press), and has also written numerous articles, most of which would impress you if you were to read them. He is also co-editor of Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities, Free Will and Reactive Attitudes, and The Nature of Moral Responsibility. He has a boundless lust for life, and he often drinks to excess.

- 1. Forgiveness: An Introduction - Brandon Warmke, Dana Kay Nelkin, and Michael McKenna
- 2. The Forgiven - David Shoemaker
- 3. Fitting Attitudes and Forgiveness - Glen Pettigrove
- 4. Forgiveness as the Renunciation of Protest - Derk Pereboom
- 5. Free Will and Forgiveness - Ishtiyaque Haji
- 6. Forgiveness as a Performative Utterance - Richard Swinburne
- 7. Institutional Apologies and Forgiveness - Angela M. Smith
- 8. The Sunflower: Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation - Eleonore Stump
- 9. Forgiving Evil - Eve Garrard and David McNaughton
- 10. Forgiveness, Self-Respect, and Humility - Margaret Holmgren
- 11. Forgiveness as a Duty of Universal Love - Christine Swanton
- 12. Frailty and Forgiveness: Forgiveness for Humans - Lucy Allais
- 13. Forgiveness and Consequences - Richard Arneson