TRACY ISAACS'S CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

All of my research is in the area of moral philosophy and action theory. My work on moral responsibility combines both of these interests. During my doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I wrote a dissertation on moral and ontological issues in the theory of action. My current work on the relationship between individual and collective moral responsibility, and the impact of collective contexts on individual moral responsibility, builds on my previous work in theory of action, moral theory, and moral responsibility. See my publications. I also have a research interest in feminist ethics, and have recently begun to do serious work in that area.

Here are a few of the projects that I am working on:

"Personal Experience, Methodology, and Feminist Ethics" is about the place of personal experience in the methodology of feminist ethics.

"Collective Intention and Collective Moral Responsibility" is part of a larger project on the relationship between individual and collective responsibility. Here, I argue for a specific account of collective intention that, I believe, grounds a substantive notion of collective moral responsibility.

Individual Responsibility in Collective Contexts is a book length project for which I have received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. My main goal is to explore the relationship between individual and collective responsibility, paying particular attention to the way that collective contexts affect the responsibility of individuals.

I am an active member of the Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Research Group at the University of Western Ontario.

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Tracy Isaacs, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario N6A 3K7

E-mail: tisaacs@uwo.ca  Phone: (519) 661-2111 ext. 85747  Fax: (519) 661-3922

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