Ishtiyaque Haji
Biographic Data
| ID | 964338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ishtiyaque Haji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ishtiyaque |
| FAMILY NAME | Haji |
| SIGNATURE | HAJI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7973-3028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Obligation and Responsibility
This book extends our understanding of the nature of moral obligation and moral responsibility by arguing that they are far more similar in pertinent respects than frequently conceived. First, the view that, unlike obligation, responsibility does not require freedom to do otherwise is challenged. Conceptual ties between obligation and responsibility largely speak in favor of responsibility’s requiring alternatives. Second, many philosophers champ…
Semicompatibilism Imperiled
Blameworthiness semicompatibilism is the thesis that determinism is compatible with moral blameworthiness even if incompatible with freedom to do otherwise. Two concerns with this thesis are raised. First, I show why Frankfurt examples, which play a key role in underwriting blameworthiness semicompatibilism, are not as secure as many believe because of conceptual ties between blameworthiness and impermissibility. Second, I argue that if blamewort…
Obligation Incompatibilism and Blameworthiness
Obligation incompatibilism is the view that determinism precludes moral obligation. I argue for the following. (i) Two principles, ‘ought’ implies ‘can’ and ‘ought not’ is equivalent to ‘impermissible’, generate a powerful argument for obligation incompatibilism. (ii) Assuming conceptual ties between blameworthiness and impermissibility or belief in impermissibility, these principles also imperil blameworthiness provided determinism is true. If d…
A paradox concerning Frankfurt examples
Luck's Mischief
Luck, Compatibilism, and Libertarianism
Many have thought that libertarian accounts of free action succumb to a problem about luck. Recently, it has been proposed that compatibilist accounts, which unlike libertarian ones, maintain that free action and determinism are compatible, are also vulnerable to a problem about luck. In this paper, I argue that the problem of compatibilist luck is not novel insofar as it is one manifestation of a more general concern to which compatibilists and …
Blameworthiness and Alternate Possibilities
Obligation, Reason, and Frankfurt Examples
This article gives an unusual twist to debates about Frankfurt-type examples. It defends the thesis that if agents are to be fit subjects of “morally deontic judgments”, they must have the power to act and to act otherwise. It argues that, if moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness for actions presuppose that the agents praised or blamed are “fit subjects of morally deontic judgments”, then moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness would also…
Ultimate Educational Aims, Overridingness, and Personal Well-being
Incompatibilism’s Threat to Worldly Value
Authenticity-Sensitive Preferentism and Educating for Well-Being and Autonomy
An overarching aim of education is the promotion of children’s personal well-being. Liberal educationalists also support the promotion of children’s personal autonomy as a central educational aim. On some views, such as John White’s, these two goals—furthering well-being and cultivating autonomy—can come apart. Our primary aim in this paper is to argue for a species of a stronger view: assuming preferentism as our axiology, we suggest that there …
Authentic Education and Moral Responsibility
An appeal to children's authenticity is widespread in major debates in the philosophy of education. However, no evident uniform conception of authenticity informs the dialectic. We begin with examples that confirm this multiplicity. We then uncover a common strand that unifies these seemingly differing conceptions: authenticity is exemplified by motivational elements, such as the agent's desires, when these elements are, in a manner to be explica…
Education for Critical Thinking
An ideal of education is to ensure that our children develop into autonomous critical thinkers. The ‘indoctrination objection’, however, calls into question whether education, aimed at cultivating autonomous critical thinkers, is possible. The core of the concern is that since the young child lacks even modest capacities for assessing reasons, the constituent components of critical thinking have to be indoctrinated if there is to be any hope of t…
Moral Responsibility, Love, and Authenticity
Dialectical Delicacies in the Debate About Freedom and Alternative Possibilities
Walter Glannon, The Mental Basis of Responsibility
Deontic Morality and Control
This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over their actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. Hence, no one ever performs an action that is morally obligatory, right or wrong. The author defends t…
Appraisals of Virtue and Value
Thomas Hurka's brilliant study on the nature and value of virtue and vice opens with a puzzle. Hurka tells us that as consequentialism defines “ all other moral properties in terms of goodness and evil” (p. 8), a fully consequentialist characterization of virtue and vice should define these things by appeal to goodness and evil as well. However, it has traditionally been thought that the most promising analysis of virtue, in terms of what is intr…
Deontic Morality and Control (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
On Moral Considerability
Self‐Deception and Blameworthiness
Moral Appraisability
On Being Morally Responsible in a Dream
Moral Appraisability
This book explores a central question of moral philosophy, addressing whether we are morally responsible for certain kinds of actions, intentional omissions, and the consequences deriving therefrom. Haji distinguishes between moral responsibility and a more restrictive category, moral appraisability. To say that a person is appraisable for an action is to say that he or she is deserving either of praise or blame for that action. One of Haji’s pri…
An Epistemic Dimension of Blameworthiness
The author first argues against the view that an agent is morally blameworthy for performing an action only if it is morally wrong for that agent to perform that action. The author then proposes a replacement for this view whose gist is summarized in the principle: an agent S is morally blameworthy for performing action A only if S has the belief that it is wrong for her to do A and this belief plays an appropriate role in S's Aing. He focuses on…
Education for Critical Thinking
An ideal of education is to ensure that our children develop into autonomous critical thinkers. The ‘indoctrination objection’, however, calls into question whether education, aimed at cultivating autonomous critical thinkers, is possible. The core of the concern is that since the young child lacks even modest capacities for assessing reasons, the constituent components of critical thinking have to be indoctrinated if there is to be any hope of t…
Authenticity-Sensitive Preferentism and Educating for Well-Being and Autonomy
An overarching aim of education is the promotion of children’s personal well-being. Liberal educationalists also support the promotion of children’s personal autonomy as a central educational aim. On some views, such as John White’s, these two goals—furthering well-being and cultivating autonomy—can come apart. Our primary aim in this paper is to argue for a species of a stronger view: assuming preferentism as our axiology, we suggest that there …
On Moral Considerability
An Epistemic Dimension of Blameworthiness
The author first argues against the view that an agent is morally blameworthy for performing an action only if it is morally wrong for that agent to perform that action. The author then proposes a replacement for this view whose gist is summarized in the principle: an agent S is morally blameworthy for performing action A only if S has the belief that it is wrong for her to do A and this belief plays an appropriate role in S's Aing. He focuses on…
Alternative Possibilities, Moral Obligation, and Moral Responsibility
1993). ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES, MORAL OBLIGATION, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. Philosophical Papers: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 41-50
A paradox concerning Frankfurt examples
Incompatibilism’s Threat to Worldly Value
Hampton on Hobbes on State-of-Nature Cooperation
Any interpreter of Hobbes confronts a sort of tension between two Hobbesian themes. On the one hand, Hobbes clearly maintains that the state of nature is a war of every man against every man. Conflict among rational, self-interested inhabitants of the state of nature is a crucial theme in Hobbes, and must be accounted for. On the other hand, these same individuals, in this same state of nature, eventually manage to inaugurate a sovereign. A secon…
The Symmetry Enigma in Hobbes
Gregory Kavka has recently highlighted, and attempted resolution of, a possible problem with Hobbes's views on state-of-nature co-operation. The problem, having to do with whether it is rational to abide by one's agreements in what appear to be prisoner's dilemma (PD) or PD-like situations, can provisionally be summarized in this way: A covenant of mutual trust is an agreement in which both parties are required to discharge their covenantal oblig…
Hampton on Hobbes on State-of-Nature Cooperation
Any interpreter of Hobbes confronts a sort of tension between two Hobbesian themes. On the one hand, Hobbes clearly maintains that the state of nature is a war of every man against every man. Conflict among rational, self-interested inhabitants of the state of nature is a crucial theme in Hobbes, and must be accounted for. On the other hand, these same individuals, in this same state of nature, eventually manage to inaugurate a sovereign. A secon…
Escaping or Avoiding the Prisoner's Dilemma
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Alternative Possibilities, Moral Obligation, and Moral Responsibility
1993). ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES, MORAL OBLIGATION, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. Philosophical Papers: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 41-50
Changing obligations and immutable blameworthiness
A Deadly Delight
Confrontations With the Reaper is a brilliant philosophical investigation into the nature and value of death. In what follows, I adumbrate the contents of the book and then turn to some critical discussion
Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Induced Pro-Attitudes
The problem of induced pro-attitudes is simply this: why is action which ultimately issues from pro-attitudes such as desires, volitions, and goals, induced by techniques such as direct manipulation of the brain, hypnosis, or “value engineering,” frequently regarded as action for which its agent cannot be held morally responsible? The problem is of interest for several reasons. Ferdinand Schoeman, for instance, believes that the problem poses a r…
Consequentialist Perfectionism
Perfectionism is an ambitious and thoroughly engaging work in which Thomas Hurka sets out to formulate and defend a normative ethical theory that “is of sufficient depth and generality to be ... the basis of all moral claims” (p. 32). Beginning with an axiology, Hurka proposes that the development of the properties constitutive of human nature is intrinsically good, and his fundamental moral principle enjoins us to promote the greatest developmen…
An Epistemic Dimension of Blameworthiness
The author first argues against the view that an agent is morally blameworthy for performing an action only if it is morally wrong for that agent to perform that action. The author then proposes a replacement for this view whose gist is summarized in the principle: an agent S is morally blameworthy for performing action A only if S has the belief that it is wrong for her to do A and this belief plays an appropriate role in S's Aing. He focuses on…
Kurt Baier on Reason and Morality
The Rational and the Moral Order , a work of sweeping scope and depth, opens with three problems: the Rationality Problem, briefly, is that the following set is inconsistent, although each of its elements seems true: our conduct cannot be rationally justified unless it promotes our own good; moral conduct is rationally justified; but morality often requires that we do things that do not promote our own good. The Motivation Problem distills to thi…
Moral Appraisability
This book explores a central question of moral philosophy, addressing whether we are morally responsible for certain kinds of actions, intentional omissions, and the consequences deriving therefrom. Haji distinguishes between moral responsibility and a more restrictive category, moral appraisability. To say that a person is appraisable for an action is to say that he or she is deserving either of praise or blame for that action. One of Haji’s pri…
On Being Morally Responsible in a Dream
Moral Appraisability
On Moral Considerability
Self‐Deception and Blameworthiness
Deontic Morality and Control
This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over their actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. Hence, no one ever performs an action that is morally obligatory, right or wrong. The author defends t…
Appraisals of Virtue and Value
Thomas Hurka's brilliant study on the nature and value of virtue and vice opens with a puzzle. Hurka tells us that as consequentialism defines “ all other moral properties in terms of goodness and evil” (p. 8), a fully consequentialist characterization of virtue and vice should define these things by appeal to goodness and evil as well. However, it has traditionally been thought that the most promising analysis of virtue, in terms of what is intr…
Deontic Morality and Control (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Dialectical Delicacies in the Debate About Freedom and Alternative Possibilities
Walter Glannon, The Mental Basis of Responsibility
Moral Responsibility, Love, and Authenticity
Education for Critical Thinking
An ideal of education is to ensure that our children develop into autonomous critical thinkers. The ‘indoctrination objection’, however, calls into question whether education, aimed at cultivating autonomous critical thinkers, is possible. The core of the concern is that since the young child lacks even modest capacities for assessing reasons, the constituent components of critical thinking have to be indoctrinated if there is to be any hope of t…
Authentic Education and Moral Responsibility
An appeal to children's authenticity is widespread in major debates in the philosophy of education. However, no evident uniform conception of authenticity informs the dialectic. We begin with examples that confirm this multiplicity. We then uncover a common strand that unifies these seemingly differing conceptions: authenticity is exemplified by motivational elements, such as the agent's desires, when these elements are, in a manner to be explica…
Authenticity-Sensitive Preferentism and Educating for Well-Being and Autonomy
An overarching aim of education is the promotion of children’s personal well-being. Liberal educationalists also support the promotion of children’s personal autonomy as a central educational aim. On some views, such as John White’s, these two goals—furthering well-being and cultivating autonomy—can come apart. Our primary aim in this paper is to argue for a species of a stronger view: assuming preferentism as our axiology, we suggest that there …
Incompatibilism’s Threat to Worldly Value
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