Moral Responsibility Reconsidered
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Part of Elements in Ethics
- Authors:
- Gregg D. Caruso, SUNY Corning
- Derk Pereboom, Cornell University, New York
- Date Published: December 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009219754
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This Element examines the concept of moral responsibility as it is used in contemporary philosophical debates and explores the justifiability of the moral practices associated with it, including moral praise/blame, retributive punishment, and the reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. After identifying and discussing several different varieties of responsibility-including causal responsibility, take-charge responsibility, role responsibility, liability responsibility, and the kinds of responsibility associated with attributability, answerability, and accountability-it distinguishes between basic and non-basic desert conceptions of moral responsibility and considers a number of skeptical arguments against each. It then outlines an alternative forward-looking account of moral responsibility grounded in non-desert-invoking desiderata such as protection, reconciliation, and moral formation. It concludes by addressing concerns about the practical implications of skepticism about desert-based moral responsibility and explains how optimistic skeptics can preserve most of what we care about when it comes to our interpersonal relationships, morality, and meaning in life.
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- Date Published: December 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009219754
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 5 mm
- weight: 0.14kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Moral Responsibility
2. Skepticism about Basic Desert
3. Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility
4. Implications of Skepticism about Basic Desert
5. Final Words.
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