Moral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a New Skeptical Challenge

dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorFitzPatrick, William J.en
dc.date.accessed2014-06-26en
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T14:45:37Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-27T14:45:37Zen
dc.date.issued2008-07en
dc.description.abstractPhilosophical doubts about moral responsibility have typically been rooted in worries about free agency in the face of causal determinism, culminating in familiar metaphysical arguments against the very possibility of moral responsibility.1 Recently, however, a skeptical argument has emerged that is simultaneously less ambitious and potentially more challenging to many of our common beliefs and practices concerning responsibility. It is less ambitious because the aim is to show not that agents cannot in principle be responsible for what they do but only that the ascription of responsibility or blame for bad actions is never warranted in any particular case.2 Since this more modest argument does not rely on the truth of determinism, however, the worries it raises for attributions of moral responsibility are likewise not mitigated by familiar compatibilist strategies for rescuing moral responsibility from the threat of determinism. The problems remain whatever one concludes about the underlying metaphysical issues.en
dc.identifier.citationWilliam J. FitzPatrick. "Moral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a New Skeptical Challenge," Ethics, Vol. 118, No. 4 (July 2008), pp. 589-613. DOI: 10.1086/589532en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1086/589532en
dc.identifier.issn0014-1704en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/49130en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589532en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectculpable ignoranceen
dc.subjectethicsen
dc.subjectphilosophyen
dc.titleMoral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a New Skeptical Challengeen
dc.title.serialEthicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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