David Botting
Biographic Data
| ID | 6798388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Botting |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Botting |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5314-3625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The resentful and the indignant
In “Freedom and Resentment” P.F. Strawson distinguishes between the participant reactive attitudes like resentment and the moral reactive attitudes like indignation described by Strawson as their “vicarious analogues,” where we are not the injured party and it is not our own personal relationships at stake. Through naturalistic description of the participant reactive attitudes a set of conditions for moral responsibility can be discovered that, m…
Inabilities, excuses and exemptions
In this paper I will argue, following Moody-Adams’s (1994) paper “Culture, responsibility and affected ignorance,” that inability does not excuse in general, but against Moody-Adams I will argue that this is not because of “affected ignorance” but simply because of responsibilities individual agents have by virtue of belonging to and participating in the collective actions of a certain kind of collective. Excusability has been misdiagnosed as dep…
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Inabilities, excuses and exemptions
In this paper I will argue, following Moody-Adams’s (1994) paper “Culture, responsibility and affected ignorance,” that inability does not excuse in general, but against Moody-Adams I will argue that this is not because of “affected ignorance” but simply because of responsibilities individual agents have by virtue of belonging to and participating in the collective actions of a certain kind of collective. Excusability has been misdiagnosed as dep…
The resentful and the indignant
In “Freedom and Resentment” P.F. Strawson distinguishes between the participant reactive attitudes like resentment and the moral reactive attitudes like indignation described by Strawson as their “vicarious analogues,” where we are not the injured party and it is not our own personal relationships at stake. Through naturalistic description of the participant reactive attitudes a set of conditions for moral responsibility can be discovered that, m…
Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Epistemology (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Excuse (1 work) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (1 work) · Ignorance (1 work) · Indignation (1 work)