Honouring and Admiring the Immoral

Alfred Archer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Tilburg University and a member of the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science. His primary research interests are in moral philosophy and moral psychology, particularly supererogation, the nature and ethics of admiration, and the ethics of fame. Benjamin Matheson is a Humboldt research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has research interests in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotions, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Honour and Admiration Chapter 2: Admirability and ImmoralityChapter 3: Reasons Against Honouring and AdmiringChapter 4: Against Abandoning Admiration Chapter 5: Refocusing AdmirationConclusion

"A much-needed investigation in one of the hottest topics in philosophy, psychology, and public discourse"Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, University of Genoa, Italy"When is the artist’s immorality relevant to their art? And how should we respond to immoral artists? Honouring and Admiring the Immoral offers elegant, balanced, and occasionally, wonderfully personal answers to these questions . . . I urge anyone interested in art and morality, free speech, and social epistemology to treat this work as essential reading."Daisy Dixon, The Philosophical Quarterly