Add to ORKGWallace (Univ. of Pennsylvania) argues that when we hold people morally responsible for their actions, we employ the reactive emotions of resentment, indignation, and guilt. Only if fair, however, are these reactions justified. We fairly hold people responsible provided that they are rationally competent--i.e., have the power to grasp moral reasons and control their conduct accordingly. Wallace shows how these two requirements are compatible with even hard determinism and fully justified without appeal to a metaphysically mysterious free will. Through developing a line of argument originally introduced by P.F. Strawson\u27s Freedom and Resentment in Free Will, ed. by Gary Watson (1982), Wallace\u27s rigorously argued and clearly writt...
This article focuses on compatibilist approaches to moral responsibility—that is, approaches that se...
In recent years, experimental philosophers have tried to determine whether ordinary people take free...
Skepticism about moral responsibility, or what is more commonly referred to as moral responsibility ...
Throughout much of the first half of the twentieth century, the free-will debate was largely concern...
109 pagesThis work concerns the nature of moral responsibility, and in particular the conditions und...
Over the past few centuries the free will debate has largely turned on the question of whether or no...
To answer whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism, two different methods for jus...
In this paper I argue that metaphysical libertarianism does not entail desserts based moral responsi...
Filonowicz (Long Island Univ.) offers an excellent, vigorous defense of moral sentimentalism--once s...
At first sight, moral blame is an unpleasant thing. No one likes being blamed and few people like ex...
© 2014 Elsevier Inc. Fundamental beliefs about free will and moral responsibility are often thought ...
The debate surrounding the issue of collective moral responsibility is often steeped in metaphysical...
I defend resentment as a legitimate and necessary moral attitude by neutralizing an objection that p...
In The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (2015), Bruce Waller sets out to explain why the beli...
My dissertation develops a novel theory of free will and moral responsibility, Strawsonian libertari...
This article focuses on compatibilist approaches to moral responsibility—that is, approaches that se...
In recent years, experimental philosophers have tried to determine whether ordinary people take free...
Skepticism about moral responsibility, or what is more commonly referred to as moral responsibility ...
Throughout much of the first half of the twentieth century, the free-will debate was largely concern...
109 pagesThis work concerns the nature of moral responsibility, and in particular the conditions und...
Over the past few centuries the free will debate has largely turned on the question of whether or no...
To answer whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism, two different methods for jus...
In this paper I argue that metaphysical libertarianism does not entail desserts based moral responsi...
Filonowicz (Long Island Univ.) offers an excellent, vigorous defense of moral sentimentalism--once s...
At first sight, moral blame is an unpleasant thing. No one likes being blamed and few people like ex...
© 2014 Elsevier Inc. Fundamental beliefs about free will and moral responsibility are often thought ...
The debate surrounding the issue of collective moral responsibility is often steeped in metaphysical...
I defend resentment as a legitimate and necessary moral attitude by neutralizing an objection that p...
In The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (2015), Bruce Waller sets out to explain why the beli...
My dissertation develops a novel theory of free will and moral responsibility, Strawsonian libertari...
This article focuses on compatibilist approaches to moral responsibility—that is, approaches that se...
In recent years, experimental philosophers have tried to determine whether ordinary people take free...
Skepticism about moral responsibility, or what is more commonly referred to as moral responsibility ...