Moral responsibility and desert of praise and blame / Audrey L. Anton.

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Anton, Audrey L [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739191767
0739191764

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral responsibility and desert of praise and blameDDC classification:

170 23

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BJ1451 .A48 2015eb

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Contents:

Sourcehood -- Sentiment views -- Reasons-responsive views -- Putting the cart before the horse -- Moral attitudes -- Applications and implications.

Summary: Through critical examination of three main contemporary approaches to describing moral responsibility (sourcehood, sentiment, and reasons-responsive), this book illustrates why philosophers must take into account the relationship between retrospective moral responsibility and desert of praise or blame. The author advances the moral attitude account, whereby desert of praise and blame depends on the agent's moral attitudes in response to moral reasons, and retrospective moral responsibility results from expressions of those attitudes in overt behavior.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sourcehood -- Sentiment views -- Reasons-responsive views -- Putting the cart before the horse -- Moral attitudes -- Applications and implications.

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Through critical examination of three main contemporary approaches to describing moral responsibility (sourcehood, sentiment, and reasons-responsive), this book illustrates why philosophers must take into account the relationship between retrospective moral responsibility and desert of praise or blame. The author advances the moral attitude account, whereby desert of praise and blame depends on the agent's moral attitudes in response to moral reasons, and retrospective moral responsibility results from expressions of those attitudes in overt behavior.

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