Award Presentation and Winner’s Talk
“Forgiveness as a Transformative Project”
Friday, April 12, 2024, 2:30 PM
Sakamaki Hall C-308
The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award recognizes the PhD student who has the best PhD proposal defense in the Department of Philosophy. Jana Light will present her winning PhD proposal defense, “Forgiveness as a Transformative Project.” In this talk, Jana will provide an overview of her dissertation plans on the topic of forgiveness and its moral significance and social-psychological dimensions. After outlining the set of issues that her dissertation will address, she will explore one theme in greater detail: the role of trust in forgiveness as a personally transformative project.