Inabilities, excuses and exemptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12868472 |
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| Authors | David Botting (0000-0002-5314-3625, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-104 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ethic@ - An international Journal for Moral Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1677-2954 • E-ISSN: 1677-2954 |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5007/1677-2954.2015v14n1p104 |
| OpenAlex | W1888875966 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
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 depending on whether the ignorance of wrongdoing involved is culpable or non-culpable
Excuse · Ignorance · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Wrongdoing · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Highly cited | No |
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