Add to ORKGAt first sight, moral blame is an unpleasant thing. No one likes being blamed and few people like experiencing the negative emotions associated with blaming others. Therefore, some suggest a radical reform of our everyday moral life: We should replace our tendency to blame wrongdoers with a tendency to criticize them in a less harmful and more productive way. The blameless fight for the good by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi may exemplify this alternative. Many philosophers, however, think that such a reform would be bad. In this discussion note, I will focus on R. Jay Wallace’s claim that our tendency to blame wrongdoers stands in relation to some important good such that we would necessarily lose this good if we stopp...
In discussing the ways in which we hold each other accountable for immoral conduct, philosophers hav...
Despite the diversity of viewpoints throughout the history of philosophy on the subject of blame, on...
In most discussions of moral responsibility, an agent’s moral responsibility for harming or failing ...
This work examines the social practice of blaming, beginning with a prominent view of the moral phil...
In this paper, I assume the error theory about morality is correct, and examine if this undermines t...
Morality as we know it seems inextricably involved with notions of responsibility, desert, and blame...
In this paper we show that being blameworthy for not blaming and being blameworthy for victim blamin...
This paper looks at judgments of guilt in the face of alleged wrong-doing, be it in public or in pri...
What it is for us to blame an individual, and when is our blame appropriate? While moral psychologis...
When someone blames you, you might accept the blame or you might reject it, challenging the blamer’s...
I argue against the claim that morally ignorant wrongdoers are open to blame only if they are culpab...
Despite extensive recent investigations of moral judgments, little is known about how negative judgm...
In the last two decades, blame has become a core topic in ethics, philosophical moral psychology and...
It is widely acknowledged that condoning the wrongdoing of others can itself be worthy of moral blam...
There is a strong Western tradition of opposing angry, hostile, or antagonistic reactions to wrongdo...
In discussing the ways in which we hold each other accountable for immoral conduct, philosophers hav...
Despite the diversity of viewpoints throughout the history of philosophy on the subject of blame, on...
In most discussions of moral responsibility, an agent’s moral responsibility for harming or failing ...
This work examines the social practice of blaming, beginning with a prominent view of the moral phil...
In this paper, I assume the error theory about morality is correct, and examine if this undermines t...
Morality as we know it seems inextricably involved with notions of responsibility, desert, and blame...
In this paper we show that being blameworthy for not blaming and being blameworthy for victim blamin...
This paper looks at judgments of guilt in the face of alleged wrong-doing, be it in public or in pri...
What it is for us to blame an individual, and when is our blame appropriate? While moral psychologis...
When someone blames you, you might accept the blame or you might reject it, challenging the blamer’s...
I argue against the claim that morally ignorant wrongdoers are open to blame only if they are culpab...
Despite extensive recent investigations of moral judgments, little is known about how negative judgm...
In the last two decades, blame has become a core topic in ethics, philosophical moral psychology and...
It is widely acknowledged that condoning the wrongdoing of others can itself be worthy of moral blam...
There is a strong Western tradition of opposing angry, hostile, or antagonistic reactions to wrongdo...
In discussing the ways in which we hold each other accountable for immoral conduct, philosophers hav...
Despite the diversity of viewpoints throughout the history of philosophy on the subject of blame, on...
In most discussions of moral responsibility, an agent’s moral responsibility for harming or failing ...