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7749The objective attitudePhilosophical Quarterly 57 (228). 2007.I aim to alleviate the pessimism with which some philosophers regard the 'objective attitude', thereby removing a particular obstacle which P.F. Strawson and others have placed in the way of more widespread scepticism about moral responsibility. First, I describe what I consider the objective attitude to be, and then address concerns about this raised by Susan Wolf. Next, I argue that aspects of certain attitudes commonly thought to be opposed to the objective attitude are in fact compatible wit…Read more
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530Partial DesertIn David Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford studies in agency and responsibility, Oxford University Press. 2013.Theories of moral desert focus only on the personal culpability of the agent to determine the amount of blame and punishment the agent deserves. I defend an alternative account of desert, one that does not focus only facts about offenders and their offenses. In this revised framework, personal culpability can do no more than set upper and lower limits for deserved blame and punishment. For more precise judgments within that spectrum, additional factors must be considered, factors that are in…Read more
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19IndexIn Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Princeton University Press. pp. 223-230. 2012.
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26Chapter Three. Shame Cultures, Collectivist Societies, Original Sin, And Pharaoh’s Hardened HeartIn Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Princeton University Press. pp. 63-83. 2012.
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18ContentsIn Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Princeton University Press. 2012.
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43More Work for Hard Incompatibilism1Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (3): 511-521. 2009.
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25Chapter Six. A Metaskeptical Analysis of Libertarianism and CompatibilismIn Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Princeton University Press. pp. 133-172. 2012.
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250The two faces of revenge: Moral responsibility and the culture of honorBiology and Philosophy 24 (1): 35-50. 2009.Retributive emotions and behavior are thought to be adaptive for their role in improving social coordination. However, since retaliation is generally not in the short-term interests of the individual, rational self-interest erodes the motivational link between retributive emotions and the accompanying adaptive behavior. I argue that two different sets of norms have emerged to reinforce this link: (1) norms about honor and (2) norms about moral responsibility and desert. I observe that the primar…Read more
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20AcknowledgmentsIn Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Princeton University Press. 2012.
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