Dr Adam Piovarchy

Research Fellow
BA (UOW), MA (Monash), PhD (The University of Sydney)

Email: adam.piovarchy@nd.edu.au
Phone: 8204 4400

• Biography

  Adam Piovarchy is a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. His research focuses on moral responsibility, the ethics of blame, and the social determinants of our moral decision-making.

  He completed his PhD in Philosophy at The University of Sydney in 2020, and also holds a Masters of Bioethics from Monash University.

• Research Expertise and Supervision

  • Moral Responsibility
  • Blame
  • Free Will
  • Situationism

• Journal Articles and Proceedings

  • Piovarchy, Adam (forthcoming). The Utilitarian's Guide to Dreams. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
  • Piovarchy, Adam (forthcoming). Does Being ‘Bad Feminist’ Make Me a Hypocrite? Politics, Commitments and Moral Consistency. Philosophical Studies:1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02056-9
  • Piovarchy, Adam (forthcoming). How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Ignore Unwelcome Epistemic Company. Canadian Journal of Philosophy:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2023.31
  • Piovarchy, Adam (forthcoming). Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity, and Epistemic Inoculation. Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-01993-9
  • Piovarchy, A. (2023). Attributionist Group Agent Responsibility. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 25 (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-01993-9
  • Piovarchy, A. (2023). Situationism and Trait-Eliciting Situations. Analysis 83(1):80-88. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac035
  • Piovarchy, A. (2023) Vice epistemology, norm-maintenance and epistemic evasiveness. Synthese 201(105):1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04086-6
  • Piovarchy, A. (2023). Situationism, Subjunctive Hypocrisy and Standing to Blame. Inquiry 66 (4):514-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712233
  • Piovarchy, A. (2022) Situationism, capacities and culpability. Philosophical Studies 179 (6):1997-2027. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01744-8
  • Piovarchy, A. (2021). What Do We Want From a Theory of Epistemic Blame? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (4):791-805. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1833353
  • Piovarchy, A. (2021). A Second-Personal Solution to the Paradox of Moral Complaint. Utilitas, 33(1):111-117. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820820000370
  • Piovarchy, A. (2020). Responsibility for Testimonial Injustice. Philosophical Studies 178(2): 597–615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01447-6
  • Piovarchy, A. (2020). Hypocrisy, Standing to Blame and Second-Personal Authority. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101(4): 603–627. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12318
  • Piovarchy, A. (2020). Blame in the Aftermath of Excused Wrongdoing. Public Affairs Quarterly, 34(2): 142–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/26921124
  • Piovarchy, A. (2020). Philosophy’s Undergraduate Gender Gaps and Early Interventions. Ergo, 6: 707–741. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.026

• Conference Papers

  • 2023 - 'Signalling, Sanctioning and Sensitising - How to Uphold Norms with Blame' - Macquarie University Seminar Series
  • 2023 - 'Signalling, Sanctioning and Sensitising - How to Uphold Norms with Blame' - UOW Agora Speaker Series
  • 2023 - 'Signalling, Sanctioning and Sensitising - How to Uphold Norms with Blame' - Forgiveness and Punishment Workshop, The University of Sydney
  • 2022 'Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity, and Epistemic Inoculation' - Department of Philosophy Seminar Series, The University of Tasmania
  • 2022 'Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity, and Epistemic Inoculation' - Sydney Health Ethics Conversation, The University of Sydney
  • 2022 'Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity, and Epistemic Inoculation'  - Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Waikato
  • 2021 'Pathologies of Blame' - University of Sydney Department of Philosophy Seminar Series
  • 2021 'Pathologies of Blame' -  Sydney Health Ethics Conversation, The University of Sydney
  • 2020 'What Do We Want From A Theory of Epistemic Blame?' - Faculty of Arts Seminar Series, The University of New England
  • 2019 'Hypocrisy, Standing to Blame and Normative Powers' - Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Wollongong
  • 2018 'Responsibility for Testimonial Injustice' - Aristotelian Society Open Session, Oxford University
  • 2018 'Responsibility for Testimonial Injustice' - USC/UCLA Graduate Conference, University of Southern California
  • 2018 'Responsibility for Testimonial Injustice' - Conference on Current Trends in Social Epistemology, University of Melbourne
  • 2018 'Situationism, Subjunctive Hypocrisy and Standing to Blame' - Ethics and Atrocity Graduate Conference, The University of Texas, San Antonio
  • 2017 'Situationism, Subjunctive Hypocrisy and Standing to Blame' - University of Sydney, Department of Philosophy weekly departmental seminar
  • 2017 'Situationism, Subjunctive Hypocrisy and Standing to Blame' - Annual conference of the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Committee, University of Queensland
  • 2017 'Blame, When You’d Do the Same?' Obedience and Moral Responsibility' - Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) workshop on Forgiveness, Blame and the Reactive Attitudes, Macquarie University
  • 2017 'Blame, When You’d Do the Same?' - Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Adelaide.
  • 2017 'Blame, When You’d Do the Same?' - Annual conference of the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Committee, ANU.
  • 2017 'Blame, When You’d Do the Same?' - Annual conference of the Sydney Philosophy of Psychology Society
  • 2016 'Blaming the Excused: Causal Responsibility and Reactive Attitudes' - Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Monash University.
  • 2016 'Blaming the Excused: Causal Responsibility and Reactive Attitudes' - Annual conference of the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Committee, University of Adelaide
  • 2016 'Situationism and Agency' - Annual conference of the Sydney Philosophy of Psychology Society

• Edited collections

  • Piovarchy, Adam (2023). Introduction to Philosophy of Religion. In Short Cuts: Philosophy, ed. Laura D'Olyimpio, IconBooks. https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/short-cuts-philosophy/

• Book reviews

  • Piovarchy, A. (2022). The Philosophy of Envy, by Protasi, Sara, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (2):425-426

• Awards

  • 2023. Bursary. The Honesty Project, Wake Forest University ($6000)
  • 2021. Bursary, Latin America Free Will Project ($2500)
  • 2019. Anderson Junior Research Fellowship, The University of Sydney
  • 2018. Faculty of Arts Teaching Fellowship, The University of Sydney
  • 2018. Lucy Firth Graduate Publication Prize, The University of Sydney ($1000)
  • 2018. Winner, The University of Sydney Faculty of Arts Three Minute Thesis
  • 2018. Conference funding, Bodies of Work ($3900)
  • 2018. Shortlist for Best Postgraduate Paper and Presentation, Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy
  • 2017. Postgraduate Research Subsidy Scheme, The University of Sydney ($3000)
  • 2017. Grant-in-Aid Travel Scholarship, The University of Sydney ($3500)
  • 2017. Shortlist for Best Postgraduate Paper and Presentation, Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy
  • 2016. Shortlist for Best Postgraduate Paper and Presentation, Annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy
  • 2016. University of Sydney Dean’s Citation Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2015. University Postgraduate Award from the University of Sydney ($94500)

• In the media

  • 'Can People Be Epistemically Blameworthy?' Open for Debate Cardiff 17 April 2023

  • 'The importance of blaming responsibly' ABC Religion and Ethics 27 February 2023

  • 'The Ethics of Intervening' God Forbid, ABC Radio National 25 February 2023

  • 'Moral superiority is no way to encourage people to be vaccinated' ABC Religion and Ethics, 11 November 2021

  • 'As Australia begins to open up, don’t forget what it was like to be locked down' ABC Religion and Ethics, 26 October 2021

  • 'Why we wanted the Prime Minister to say ‘I’m sorry’' The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald 22 July 2021

  • ‘Why the blame game is an important social tool’ The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald 16 July 2021

  • ‘Want to improve NAPLAN scores? Teach children philosophy’ The Conversation 30 August 2016

  • ‘Whose decision? The ethics of being nudged’ The Ethics Centre 31 October 2016