Responsibility : the epistemic condition /

Sometimes ignorance excuses, sometimes it does not. Whether ignorance can be used as an excuse is controversial. Can ancient slaveholders be excused for owning slaves because they did not know that slavery is wrong? Sixteen new essays explore various ways of defining the line between ignorance that...

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Epistemic condition
Unwitting Wrongdoing, Reasonable Expectations, and Blameworthiness /
Akrasia, Awareness, and Blameworthiness /
When Ignorance is No Excuse /
Vice, Blameworthiness, and Cultural Ignorance /
Blame and Moral Ignorance /
When is Failure to Realize Something Exculpatory? /
On Knowing What's Right and Being Responsible for It /
Explaining (Away) the Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility /
The Epistemic Condition on Moral Blameworthiness: A Theoretical Epiphenomenon /
Hard to Know /
Intellectual Difficulty and Moral Responsibility /
Moral Responsibility and Quality of Will /
Ignorance, Revision, and Commonsense /
Methodological Conservatism and the Epistemic Condition /
Tracing the Epistemic Condition /
Blame Transfer /
Hauptverfasser:
Robichaud, Philip, Wieland, Jan Willem
Weitere Verfasser:
Robichaud, Philip (Associate Professor of Ethics) (HerausgeberIn), Wieland, Jan Willem (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Sometimes ignorance excuses, sometimes it does not. Whether ignorance can be used as an excuse is controversial. Can ancient slaveholders be excused for owning slaves because they did not know that slavery is wrong? Sixteen new essays explore various ways of defining the line between ignorance that excuses and ignorance that does not.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 301 pages )
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:
0-19-108523-5
0-19-182471-2
0-19-108522-7
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