EUROPEAN MORAL RESPONSIBILITY CONSORTIUM (EMRC)
Website – Mailing List – Conference
The EMRC (European Moral Responsibility Consortium) is a platform devoted to facilitating coordination and cooperation among philosophers based in Europe working in moral responsibility and related topics (free will, blame, collective responsibility, punishment, moral responsibility and AI, etc.). The EMRC’s platform and its mailing list are open also to researchers not based in Europe.
Website
The new EMRC website, where you can find the latest EMRC news and more, can be accessed here: https://emrconsortium.org/
Mailing List
The EMRC mailing list aims to facilitate communication and coordination of Europe-based research on responsibility and related topics. If you wish to subscribe, please send a blank email with subject line “Subscription” to emrconsortium@gmail.com.
All messages posted to the list will be sent out weekly in a single email digest to all subscribers. If no messages have been posted to the list, no email will be sent out that week. The purposes of the mailing list include: announcing conferences and workshops, advertising jobs, looking for collaborations, proposing online reading groups, networking, and informing subscribers about visits by responsibility scholars based outside Europe in order to coordinate travel or workshops.
EMRC Conferences
The first EMRC conference took place at KU Leuven in 2025.
The second EMRC conference will take place in Salzburg in 2026:
Second Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC)
Registration open until June 30, 2026
Conference dates: September 28-30, 2026
Conference venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria
The conference is free to attend, but places are limited and registration is required. If you wish to register, please fill in the following form by June 30: https://forms.gle/J62ubC6ymkKfnPkJ6
Keynote speakers: Monika Betzler, Gunnar Björnsson, Jules Holroyd, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Confirmed speakers: Hannah Altehenger (& Peter Schulte), Agnès Baehni & Patricia Sanches Oliva, Emily Baron, Olle Blomberg, Dominik Boll, Daphne Brandenburg, Daniele Bruno, Niels de Haan, Anton Emilsson, Jonathan Fremout, Kyle G. Fritz & Daniel J. Miller, David Heering, Frank Hindriks, Anneli Jefferson, Felix Lambrecht, Elsa Magnell, Shervin MirzaeiGhazi, Matthias Rolffs & Trenton Sewell, Jules Salmone-Sehr (& Eliana Luxemburg-Peck), Philipp Schwind, Kenneth Silver, Mark Spencer, Ninni Suni, András Szigeti, Kesavan Thanagopal, Marina Trakas, Alexander Velichkov, David Widerker, Pascale Willemsen (& Max Bauer & Pauline Kinzler), Nicola Zetti
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact us at emrconsortium@gmail.com.
The conference is organized by Leonhard Menges and Leonie Eichhorn (Salzburg Ethics Group) as part of the research project “Skepticism about Praiseworthiness” at the University of Salzburg.
The conference has received funding from:
FWF, Austrian Science Funds (Grant DOI: 10.55776/PAT1933724)
GAP, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie