Dr. Marta Johansson Werkmäster

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Marta Johansson Werkmäster’s research focuses on moral responsibility. Specifically, she examines questions concerning blame and praise.

In her doctoral thesis, Aspects of Blame, and papers (see below), Marta Johansson Werkmäster scrutinizes the nature of blame, blameworthiness, standing to blame, and proportional blame.

Currently, Marta Johansson Werkmäster is investigating the alleged opposite of blame—praise. In the project Praise and Proportionality (funded by the Salén Foundation), she explores whether disproportionate praise wrongs its target and what it is for praise to vary in degrees of strength.

Forschungsinteressen

Current project: Praise and Proportionality

The overarching aim of this project is to broaden our understanding of the ethics of praise and the nature of praise – both of which are currently undertheorized. More precisely, I want to (i) investigate whether disproportionate praise wrongs its target and (ii) investigate whether praise is best described as a type of sentiment and that it varies in degrees similarly to sentiments.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

• Johansson, Werkmäster, M. (2024). Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: The Beam and The Mote: On Blame, Standing, and Normativity New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, Hardback. (ISBN978-0-19-754459-4) 272 pp. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
• Johansson Werkmäster, M. & Werkmäster, J. (forthcoming). Blame and Proportionality. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
• Johansson Werkmäster, M. & Werkmäster, J. (forthcoming). Rejecting norms of standing for private blame. Ratio.
• Johansson Werkmäster, M. (2022). Blame as a sentiment. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 30 (3): 239-253.