Apologies and Moral Repair

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University. He is author of Philosophy, Ethics, Public Policy (Routledge, 2015). He has also edited or coedited books on public policy and applied ethics.

• Introduction1. Toward a Theory of Apology: Mapping Some Terrain of Corrective Justice2. Some Incomplete Accounts of Apologies3. Apology as Relationship Repair4. Relationships and Mutually Justifiable Demands5. Rights and Duties of Apology6. Apologies, Corrective Justice, and Relationship Repair: Some Puzzles7. Corporate Apologies8. Political Apologies9. Apologies for Historic Injustice

"Andrew I. Cohen has made a significant advance in our understanding of the nature of apologies. He demonstrates, more clearly than anyone before, that apologies are grounded in the demands of justice. As such, he shows that liberal theories of justice have the resources to help address issues of historic injustice." – Andrew Valls, Oregon State University, USA