What does attention have to do with morality?

Event description

  • Free
  • Open to the public

 

Is morality informed by how — and to what — we give our attention? In this lecture, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza will explore how attention fundamentally shapes our reality, informs our character and motivates us to act. Learn to harness the potential of attention to transform your experience of the world, including your ethical worldview. 

Attached below is the introductory chapter of her book, "The Ethics of Attention."

 

About the speaker

Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is a philosopher working in ethics, focusing on attention, moral impossibility, trust, suffering, and animals. She is the author of "The Ethics of Attention" (2022), co-editor of "The Murdochian Mind" (2022), and co-editor and co-translator of Simone Weil’s literary works "Venice Saved" (2019) and "Mirror of Obedience" (2023).

 

Co-sponsors

Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics

Additional information

Event contact

Date

Monday, October 26, 2026



Time

3:00 pm4:30 pm (MST)


Location

West Hall, Room 135

Cost

Free