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101Blame: Strangers and the Moral RelationshipAnalysis 77 (1): 10-20. 2017.In his recent work, T.M. Scanlon has argued for a relationship based theory of blame. For Scanlon moral blame involves the modification of the moral relationship. He holds that this relationship obtains among all rational beings. George Sher has recently argued that Scanlon’s theory cannot account for blame between strangers. Following Sher, I argue that Scanlon’s account of blame precludes complete strangers and that his conception of the moral relationship is fundamentally inconsistent with hi…Read more
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82Control, Risk, and the Role of Luck in Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (2): 11-21. 2011.Questions about the role of luck in attributions of moral responsibility have troubled theorists for some time. In this paper I will explicate a position that acknowledges luck as a contributing factor to most, if not all, outcomes and consequences while denying luck the exculpatory role that some theorists contend it plays. I begin by going through the characterization of two perspectives on luck offered by Susan Wolf. From there I outline two necessary conditions for the legitimate attribution…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Meta-Ethics |