Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter” by Lisa Tessman
Lisa Tessman is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and a senior researcher at the University of Oslo, where she is currently doing collaborative work on the topic of moral residue. She has a B.A. in philosophy from Carleton College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her area of specialization is ethics, including normative ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, and feminist ethics. Her publications include When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Oxford University Press, 2017), Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2015), Burdened Virtues: Virtues Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as a number of articles in journals such as the Journal of Ethics, Philosophical Topics, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and Hypatia. She served as president of the APA Pacific Division in 2023–2024.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the presidential addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
