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Appreciation and Responsibility

Hosted by the Department of Government

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, United Kingdom

Speaker

Professor Cheshire Calhoun

Professor Cheshire Calhoun

Chair

Professor Kai Spiekermann

Professor Kai Spiekermann

Appreciation is a basic response to what people do, or try to do, to their contributions, and to the traits they display. Given how central feeling, expressing and receiving appreciation are in our everyday lives with others, one might wonder why these are important. In this lecture, Professor Cheshire Calhoun suggests that reflection on appreciation sheds light on what it means to be a responsible person. To be a responsible person is not simply to be someone who can be held responsible, resented, and blamed. Being a responsible person involves taking responsibility in various ways. Appreciation is thus as central to our practices of responsibility as is resentment. 

Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and chair of the American Philosophical Assocation's board of officers. 

Kai Spiekermann is Professor of Political Philosophy in the LSE Department of Government. 

The Department of Government (@LSEGovernment) is home to some of the most internationally respected experts in politics and government; producing influential research that has a global impact on policy, and delivering world-class teaching to our students. 

The twitter hashtag for this event is #LSEAppreciation 

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