Professor Linda Radzik is the author of Making Amends: Atonement Morality, Law, and Politics, published by Oxford University Press in 2009.  She is an associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University and works on moral issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing.  Professor Radzik is currently writing about “moral bystanders,” and the roles third parties to moral conflicts play in enforcing and promulgating norms.  She has also written about the ethics of forgiveness, criminal punishment and collective moral responsibility.

Professor Radzik obtained her PhD in philosophy from the University of Arizona in 1997. (more…)