Moral responsibility reconsidered / Gregg D. Caruso, Derk Pereboom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caruso, Gregg D., author.

Pereboom, Derk, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in ethics, 2516-4031.

Cambridge elements. Elements in ethics, 2516-4031

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This Element examines the concept of moral responsibility as it is used in contemporary philosophical debates and explores the justifiability of the moral practices associated with it, including moral praise/blame, retributive punishment, and the reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. After identifying and discussing several different varieties of responsibility-including causal responsibility, take-charge responsibility, role responsibility, liability responsibility, and the kinds of responsibility associated with attributability, answerability, and accountability-it distinguishes between basic and non-basic desert conceptions of moral responsibility and considers a number of skeptical arguments against each. It then outlines an alternative forward-looking account of moral responsibility grounded in non-desert-invoking desiderata such as protection, reconciliation, and moral formation. It concludes by addressing concerns about the practical implications of skepticism about desert-based moral responsibility and explains how optimistic skeptics can preserve most of what we care about when it comes to our interpersonal relationships, morality, and meaning in life.

Contents:

1. Moral Responsibility; 2. Skepticism about Basic Desert; 3. Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility; 4. Implications of Skepticism about Basic Desert; 5. Final Words.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009219761

1009219766

9781009219747

100921974X

9781009219730

1009219731