Ways to Be Blameworthy

Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-284354-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 142 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness, and our responsibility notions, praise- and blameworthiness.
Yet traditional approaches to each set of concepts tend to take the other set for granted. This book takes an integrated approach to these questions, drawing on both ethics and responsibility theory, and thereby illuminating both sets of concepts. Elinor Mason describes this as ‘normative responsibility theory’: the primary aim is

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, Elinor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Subjective Obligation

- 3: Trying to do Well by Morality

- 4: Ordinary Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness

- 5: Praise and Blame

- 6: Excuses

- 7: Exemptions

- 8: Taking Responsibility

Über Autor(innen)

Elinor Mason is Professor in philosophy at The University of California, Santa Barbara. She works on a wide range of issues in ethics, moral responsibility, and feminist philosophy.