Andreas Brekke Carlsson

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
University of Oslo
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
PhD, 2015
Oslo, Norway
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    According to the Strawsonian tradition, a person is responsible for an action just in case it is appropriate to hold them responsible for that action. One important way of holding people responsible for wrongdoing is by experiencing and expressing blaming emotions. This raises the questions of what blaming emotions are and in what sense they can be appropriate. In this chapter I will provide an overview of different answers to both these questions. A common thread in the chapter will be a challe…Read more
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    Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2022.
    Self-blame is an integral part of our lives. We often blame ourselves for our failings and experience familiar unpleasant emotions such as guilt, shame, regret, or remorse. Self-blame is also what we often aim for when we blame others: we want the people we blame to recognize their wrongdoing and blame themselves for it. Moreover, self-blame is typically considered a necessary condition for forgiveness. However, until now, self-blame has not been an integral part of the theoretical debate on mor…Read more
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    A Review of Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy (review)
    Criminal Law and Philosophy 16 (1): 215-221. 2022.
    In this review, I summarize Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy and raise some worries concerning three aspects of her book: her account of the knowledge condition on moral responsibility, her notion of blame and its justification as well as Mason’s conception of extended blameworthiness.
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    Shame and Attributability
    In David Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 6, Oxford University Press. 2019.
    Responsibility as accountability is normally taken to have stricter control conditions than responsibility as attributability. A common way to argue for this claim is to point to differences in the harmfulness of blame involved in these different kinds of responsibility. This paper argues that this explanation does not work once we shift our focus from other-directed blame to self-blame. To blame oneself in the accountability sense is to feel guilt and feeling guilty is to suffer. To blame onese…Read more
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    Blameworthiness as Deserved Guilt
    The Journal of Ethics 21 (1): 89-115. 2017.
    It is often assumed that we are only blameworthy for that over which we have control. In recent years, however, several philosophers have argued that we can be blameworthy for occurrences that appear to be outside our control, such as attitudes, beliefs and omissions. This has prompted the question of why control should be a condition on blameworthiness. This paper aims at defending the control condition by developing a new conception of blameworthiness: To be blameworthy, I argue, is most funda…Read more