Ways to be blameworthy : rightness, wrongness, and responsibility / Elinor Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Elinor, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right and wrong.

Blame.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Rightness, wrongness, and responsibility

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Elinor Mason draws on both ethics and responsibility theory to present a pluralistic view of both wrongness and blameworthiness. She identifies three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly.

Contents:

Introduction

Subjective obligation

Trying to do well by morality

Ordinary praiseworthiness and blameworthiness

Praise and blame

Excuses

Exemptions

Taking responsibility

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-257021-8

0-19-187203-2

0-19-257020-X