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5Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive DisabilityIn Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero, Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Adults with MMR Psychopathy and Disability MMR, Moral Responsibility, and Moral Community The First Puzzle: Criminal and Moral Responsibility The Second Puzzle: Degrees of Accountability Conclusion Acknowledgments References.
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Disordered, Disabled, Disregarded, Dismissed: The Moral Costs of Exemptions from AccountabilityIn Matt King & Joshua May (eds.), Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions, Oxford University Press. 2022.According to a popular line of thought, being excluded from interpersonal life is to be exempted from accountability, and vice versa. In ordinary life, this is most often illustrated by the treatment of people with serious psychological disorders. When people are excluded from valuable domains on the basis of their arbitrary characteristics (such as race and sex), they are discriminated against, prevented from receiving the benefits of participation in those domains for morally irrelevant reason…Read more
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Persons, Selves, and Ethical TheoryDissertation, University of California, Irvine. 1996.While all complete ethical theories need a plausible conception of their morally significant units , that conception is rarely explained or argued for by ethical theorists. Rather, it is usually either simply presupposed or derived from the particular ethical theory, i.e., once the theory has been outlined, a certain conception of the morally significant unit can be seen as simply following from that system. I argue in a different direction. ;Taking Derek Parfit's work in Reasons & Persons as an…Read more
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Remnants of characterIn Justin D'Arms & Daniel Jacobson (eds.), Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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