Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic

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What if you don't owe anyone anything? Not your attention, not your care, not even a reply to their message? That might sound like the philosophy of a sociopath, but sociologist and philosopher Jana Bacevic argues it's actually the foundation of a more honest and more just ethics. In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Emma sits down with Jana to discuss non-reciprocity, a concept that challenges the Kantian backbone of liberal morality and asks what it would mean to stop paying back a system that was never fair to begin with.

Related writing by Jana: https://janabacevic.net/research/understanding-nonreciprocity/

Jana's essay on the Free Nose Guy Problem: "Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem"

Jana's scholarly residency: Forest University

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