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Coping, Agency, and Responsibility: Conceptual and Normative Aspects

Psychological resilience is commonly understood as the ability agents exhibit in stressful, uncertain, or challenging situations, when they ‘bounce back,’ adapt, and thrive despite adversity. It is, arguably, the buzz term of our times, pervading common talk in our everyday lives as well as strategic plans in the private, corporate, and public spheres, and is often characterized as a very desirable and sought-after state, quality, or virtue. Philosophy has also demonstrated a novel interest in both the epistemic dimension of resilience and its ethical aspects. Unlike resilience, which remains an elusive construct, coping – construed as a process with the potential to produce resilience – has a longer and better-established history in psychology, and yet remains unexplored in philosophy. This paper begins outlining philosophical characterization of coping by addressing two sets of questions pertaining to its nature and normative assessment.

► this event is in-person at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin building, room 200)

Federica Berdini
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Toronto

Wed, Sep 21, 2022
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin